Heading: (African-American)
Author: Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt
Title: Black Reconstruction / An Essay Toward A History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Harcourt, Brace and Company
Date Published: 1935
Description:

746pp. Original cloth; silver spine titles. First Edition.

Significant association copy, with owner signature of Walt[er] Gordon, the first African American to receive a law degree from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall. As an undergrad at Berkeley, he was a star athlete, both State Champion boxer and All-American football player. After law school, he opened an Oakland law firm, headed the Berkeley NAACP, and led the investigation of the Los Angeles Zoot Suit riots for Governor Earl Warren. In 1955, President Eisenhower appointed Gordon Governor of the Virgin Islands and then a Federal Judge.

The book is a classic by the foremost African-American of the early 20th century, a monumental study, written from a Black Marxist perspective, of the two decades from the start of the Civil War to the emergence of Southern Jim Crow segregation after the failure of Reconstruction.

Spine titling scuffed; wear to spine tips and corners; endpapers darkened; pages creased; very good.