PEERY, N. Black Radical 2007-African American Veteran Memoir

Black Radical; The Education of an American Revolutionary. Author: [AFRICAN AMERICANA] PEERY, Nelson Title: Black Radical; The Education of an American Revolutionary Publication: New York: New Press, 2007 Edition: First American Edition. Publisher's red spine over brown paper covered boards, titled in silver gilt to spine. Very light wear and bumping to spne ends, a touch of sunning to the upper edge; internally clean, signed and dated (10th October 2007) by the author to the front flyleaf; in a clean, bright dustjacket with an "autographed copy" bookseller's sticker to the front panel. A very good copy indeed. A signed example of Peery's next memoir piece following "Black Fire"; "Black Radical" takes up Peery's story after his return from WW2 as a member of the fabled 93rd Infantry Division and his attempts to reintegrate into society, covering the period from 1946 to the height of the Civil Rights struggles of 1968. Signed copies of this milestone radical memoir are surprisingly scarce in trade. Subject: African-Americana, Civil Rights, Communism, Radical, Utopian, Labor & Reform Movements, WW2.

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