Becker, John [Leonard] (1901 - ) Smith, Lilian (1897 - 1966), preface	The Negro in American Life. Sponsored by the Council Against Intolerance in America. With a Preface by Lillian Smith. New York, Julian Messner, 1944. 59 pages,[6p.], plates, portraits, bibliography.	€27,50

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Small folio, publisher´s binding, d/j is missing. GOOD TO VERY GOOD. Rubber stamps 'Geschenk des Amerika Haus',' United States Information Center, Berlin ' and 'Bibliothek der Jüdischen Gemeinde zu Berlin' with cancelation marks. FIRST EDITION. Numerous photographs depicting African-Americans in American history. Most pages printed on recto only. Based on an exhibit of placards first presented at the Henry Street Settlement, New York, 1944.This pictoral volume grew out of a 1944 placard exhibit by the Council. '[...]an unbalanced effort to portray mainly in pictures the past and present of American Negro.' //The Journal of Negro History, 1945.