John Roy Lynch; John Hope Franklin [ed.]

Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch [Inscribed and Signed by Franklin]

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1970. Near Fine / Very Good +. Item #47487
ISBN: 0226498182

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; xlii,521pp. Light shelf wear to jacket margins, brief soil to front free endpaper, else a Near Fine example. Inscribed and signed by the editor John Hope Franklin on half title page.

Memoirs of John Roy Lynch (1847-1939), born into slavery in Louisiana who rose to prominence as Speaker of the House in Reconstruction Era Mississippi before becoming the first Black man elected to Congress. Forms part of the series Negro American Biographies and Autobiographies.

Price: $100.00