Black history A SOUTHERN PROPHECY by Lewis Harvie Blair/C. Vann Woodward

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A SOUTHERN PROPHECY
The Prosperity of the South Dependent upon the Elevation of the Negro (1889)
by Lewis H. Blair
edited with an introduction by C. Vann Woodward
Boston/Toronto: Little Brown and Company
(1964)
first edition thus with the Woodward introduction, hardcover, 8" tall, xlvi and 201 pages
no dustjacket
tiny tear at top of spine, otherwise in very good or better condition
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from wikipedia:
Lewis Harvie Blair (June 21, 1834 – November 26, 1916) was an American businessman, economics expert, and author...
...In his 1889 book
The Prosperity of the South Dependent upon the Elevation of the Negro
Blair called for greater equality, equal rights, voting rights, and better education for African Americans - even endorsing integration. He argued that trying to repress them would only bring the South down and was a waste of energy......
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Comer Vann Woodward (November 13, 1908 – December 17, 1999) was a Pulitzer-prize winning American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations. He was long a supporter of the approach of Charles A. Beard, stressing the influence of unseen economic motivations in politics. Stylistically, he was a master of irony and counterpoint. Woodward was on the left end of the history profession in the 1930s. By the 1950s he was a leading liberal and supporter of civil rights. His demonstration that racial segregation was a late-19th-century invention rather than some sort of eternal standard made his
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
into "the historical Bible of the civil rights movement", said Martin Luther King Jr. After attacks on him by the New Left in the late 1960s, he moved to the right politically