Description
First edition of The Deportations Delirium of Nineteen-Twenty by the Assistant Secretary of Labor Louis F. Post, inscribed to Moorfield Story, who contributed the introduction.
Octavo, xiv, 338pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in black. No additional printings noted. Frontispiece portrait. Light soiling to top edge of text block.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Hon. Moorfield Storey, with appreciation. Louis F. Post.”
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.
