1951 HOWARD THURMAN. Deep is the Hunger. Signed by MLK's Mentor & Kivie Kaplan, Head of NAACP Americana Very rare true first edition

Very rare true first edition imprint of the poem "On Recollection" by Phillis Wheatley

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Spurgeon called Trench a "capital writer

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the Southern Baptist Convention charged Basil Manly with the construction of a separate hymnal that would be void of the subtle and not so subtle anti-slavery messaging of The Psalmist

1951 HOWARD THURMAN. Deep is the Hunger. Signed by MLK's Mentor & Kivie Kaplan, Head of NAACP Americana Very rare true first editionA wonderful little piece of Civil Rights history. The present copy of the first edition of Howard Thurman's classic work is signed by Howard Thurman on the title, and was then later gifted by Kivie and Emily Kaplan in 1963. Howard Thurman was a long time minister and Civil Rights leader. He shared a decade plus relationship with Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta and it was King who helped mentor Thurman as a leader in the non violence movement, etc.