Is race difference fundamental, eternal, and inescapable? An open letter to President Warren G. Harding

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Is race difference fundamental, eternal, and inescapable? An open letter to President Warren G. Harding

• 1921 (Vervaardig)

"Washington: Austin Jenkins Publishing Co, 1921. First Edition. Stapable-bound pamphlet. Octavo (21 cm). Gray printed wrappers; 24pp. Holes punched for binding at bulked edge, else Near Fine. Response to Warren G. Harding's historic 1921 speech to a mixed-race audience in Birmingham, Alabama, in which he called for major improvements in political, educational, and economic opportunities for African Americans. Miller praises the speech at the outset but goes on to criticize Harding for his failure to extend social equality to Black as well: "...candor compels me to say, Mr. President ...that your platform based upon the assertion of 'fundamental, inescapable and eternal differences' of race is calculated, in the long run, to do the Negro as great harm as the Taney dictum would have done..." -Lorne Bair