Description
From the library of fellow civil rights activist Moorfield Storey, the signed limited edition Recollections of Seventy Years by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn.
Octavo, [two volumes], xiii, 252pp; 607pp. Gray paper boards, paper labels on spine. Uncut, many leaves unopened. Light dust along top edge of text block. Rubbing to spines, solid text block in both volumes. Includes frontispiece portrait and complete with full page illustrations throughout. Both volumes with the bookplate of Moorfield Storey on the front paste down.
From a limited edition of 50 copies signed “F.B. Sanborn / Concord, May 27, 1909,” this being number 16. Additional signature by the publisher, Richard Badger, on tipped in quarter limitation page.
Moorfield Storey (1845-1929) was an American lawyer, civil rights leader, and anti-imperialist. He was the founding president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), serving from 1909 until his death. Storey was a staunch advocate for civil liberties and racial equality, working tirelessly to challenge segregation and disenfranchisement laws. He argued several significant cases before the Supreme Court, including Buchanan v. Warley in 1917, which struck down racial zoning laws. Additionally, Storey was a vocal opponent of American imperialism, criticizing U.S. policies in the Philippines following the Spanish-American War.
