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Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
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DU BOIS, William Edward Burghardt (1868-1963). Typed letter signed (“W. E. B. Du Bois”), as editor of The Crisis, to Charles H. Wesley. New York, 13 January 1930. 1 page, 8vo, on Editorial Rooms of The Crisis, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People letterhead, evenly toned, light creasing.
“Thank you for the book and return of the photographs. I shall be glad to note the History in THE CRISIS.”
Charles H. Wesley (1891-1987), historian and author, was a long-time professor at Howard University and an accomplished scholar. Du Bois is likely referencing Wesley’s The History of Alpha Phi Alpha: A Development in College Life, first published in 1929. As the first historically African American intercollegiate Greek-lettered fraternity which counted Du Bois among its alumni, the work would have been of significant interest to readers of The Crisis.