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The Moving Picture Boys In Earthquake Land

The Moving Picture Boys In Earthquake Land by Appleton, Victor

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The Moving Picture Boys In Earthquake Land
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Appleton, Victor
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Grosset & Dunlap, 1913. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition in dust jacket. Book very good, minor foxing at front and rear end papers and paste-downs and at page ends. Dust jacket very good, minor wear, closed tear at bottom of rear panel.
Remarks of C.P. Huntington, at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Va., January 1, 1900, on "The Future of the Negro.

Remarks of C.P. Huntington, at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Va., January 1, 1900, on "The Future of the Negro. by [African Americana]: Huntington, Collis Potter

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Remarks of C.P. Huntington, at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Va., January 1, 1900, on "The Future of the Negro.
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[African Americana]: Huntington, Collis Potter
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[Hampton: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, 1900. 12pp. Original printed light green wrappers, stapled. Split to bottom half of spine, two small dampstains to wrappers, minor edge wear, small chip to lower corner of rear wrapper. Internally clean. Good plus. A scarce address delivered by C.P. Huntington at the Hampton Normal Institute on New Year's Day, 1900, on "The Future of the Negro." Huntington begins his address by acknowledging the enormity and complexity of the subject, "because there was so much [to say] that I did not know where to begin." Despite this challenge, Huntington begins by couching the struggles of African Americans in a historical framework: "The negro race is as old as the oldest, and through the ages has had its great men, but for the last two thousand years or more it has been at a disadvantage compared with the Caucasian race, as the negro has been off the line of commerce, and commerce has always been king." He then touches upon the history of slavery, challenges to African monarchs by outside forces, the life of Toussant L'Ouverture ("a full-blooded negro; a slave, and the son of slaves, though descended from an African prince...amiable, patient, mild and of a benevolent disposition..."), before turning to advice for the future. Perhaps naively, Huntington relates a sense of optimism at the current state of affairs for African Americans: "In the last two thousand years I think the negro has never come so near the front line of civilization as he is today, and never before had so fair a field for an onward march." He also conveys to the students that he believes the condition of African Americans is actually better in the South than in the North because "there is less prejudice against you there than in the North" and "the North does not understand you as do the people of your own South, who still have prejudices; but those prejudices will some time pass away." He leans on the Golden Rule to guide the lives of the students, and encourages them to perform their work "with an honesty of purpose." Some of Huntington's advice reads as accommodationist to modern ears. In asserting that social equality is "a myth," Huntington basically recommends to the students that they know their place: "It may be a long time, but you can make it the shortest possible time by your own endeavors; by not encroaching upon or attempting too suddenly to pass across the line of demarkation as the Caucasians have fixed it." He also advises the students to "keep away from the polls until they ask you to come and vote." In addition, he urges them "even more strongly to keep out of politics" because after all, "You can live under any government that the white man can in this country." He then relates stories of young men coming to him for work, basically couching these narratives in the up-by-the-boot-straps tradition. Huntington closes with encouraging words, though still in segregated terms, extolling the students to "start a school, or club, or order, to teach the people of your race how to live...." And his conclusion basically rests on the simple American idea that hard work and kindness will result in success. Though some of the present address comes off as paternalistic, Huntington had an authentic interest in assisting African-American students at Hampton and elsewhere. He served as a trustee of both Hampton and Tuskegee. The following excerpt from Syracuse University Library's "Biographical Note" on Huntington provides valuable background on his dedication to assisting the educational opportunities of the African-American community in the 1870s and later: "Donations were sought by a number of groups such as colleges, missionary societies and the like. Few of these people received money from Huntington though a notable exception was the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Hampton, Virginia. Huntington was always sympathetic to the lot of blacks in the United States and favored education as the way to self-sufficiency. Huntington built a sawmill for the Institute and annually donated scholarships. The letters of Samuel C. Armstrong, principle of the Hampton Institute, testify to the aid Huntington gave. Huntington later helped Booker T. Washington, a Hampton Institute graduate himself, to establish Tuskegee Institute in Alabama." OCLC reports about a dozen holdings of the present address by Huntington, delivered just eight months before his death in August 1900.

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