MILLER, Kelly

Education of the Negro in the North. Reprinted from the Educational Review, VOl. 62, No. 3. October, 1921.

N.p. by the Author, 1921. Offprint. Octavo. Staple-bound self wrappers; pp.232-238. Mild soil to cover leaves; rust to staples; Very Good.

Scarce offprint, surveying the current state and future of educational opportunities for Blacks. "...While the mass of the race remains in the South, the educational center of gravity will be shifting towrad the North. Ambitious youth will flock to the centers of the best educational advantage, regardless of national or racial border lines..." OCLC gives 2 locations only (Emory, Rutherford B. Hayes Pres. Center); none others in trade.

Kelly Miller (1863-1939) was the first African American to receive graduate education in Mathematics (Johns Hopkins, 1887-89); he later founded the Department of Sociology at Howard University, where he taught until 1934. Though less widely-known today than his more famous contemporaries Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, Miller was arguably the most influential Black intellectual of his era, a prolific, articulate, and widely-published advocate for Negro education and civil rights, once called by Carter Woodson "undoubtedly the greatest pamphleteer of the Negro race."

Price: $250.00

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