"The old American tradition of highly individualistic newspaper editors was truly personified in Wendell Phillips Dabney, who for nearly half a century guided the editorial destinies of Cincinnati's only Negro newspaper. Amazingly versatile (he was an accomplished musician, writer, historian, composer and politician), Mr. Dabney retained to the very end of his 86 years a very refreshing and Puckish attitude toward life and its foibles. His newspaper, the Union, led a precarious existence economically, but its refreshing individuality attracted a wide readership. Wendell Dabney often wrote forcefully on racial problems, but not in empty blatant terms. The masthead of the Union for many years displayed the very enlightened perspective of its editor: 'We fight for our rights. Why not so conduct ourselves as to cause the whites to see the injustice of withholding them?'" Inscribed first edition. Dark blue cloth-covered boards with gilt text on front cover and spine. Some rubbing to edges,

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Format: Hardback
Author: Dabney, W.P.
Condition: Very Good
Publisher: The Dabney Publishing Company
Publication Year: 1926
Signed: Yes
First Edition: Yes

Cincinnati's Colored Citizens: Historical, Sociological and Biographical

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