Search Results: reminiscences of an active life the by john roy lynch

Chicago: Univ. Of Chicago Press. Hardcover. 1970. 1st Edition. 8vo 521pp . Fine in Fine DJ. Lynch was a black man born into slavery on a LA plantation in 1847. He served in the MS legislature and U. S. Congress. Edited by John Hope Franklin .

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Chicago and London: University of Chicago, (1970). 521 pages. Hardcover with moderate spotting to edges of text block and dustwrapper; a very good copy. First edition. Inscribed and signed by John Hope Franklin, the series editor and 20th-Century dean of African American historians. Published for the first time, the autobiography of John Roy Lynch who was enslaved from birth on a Louisiana plantation. Lynch rose to become Speaker of the House for the Mississippi legislature and later became the first African American elected to the United States Congress from Mississippi. Among his accomplishments were the securing of the Civil Rights Bill of 1875 and the first Black American to deliver the keynote address at a Republican National Convention, the latter event would not happen again until 1968.

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Univ of Chicago Pr. Uncliipped DJ in archival cover, chips, edge wear. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1970.

Univ of Chicago Pr, 1970-06-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!