Eugenics of the Negro Race. Reprinted from "The Scientific Monthly" July 1917
191718295N.p.: Washington D.C.: by the Author 1917 1917. Octavo. Staple-bound wrappers; 3pp. Offprint. Wrapper edges soiled and briefly chipped along upper margin; perforations for binding at bound edge; Very Good. Brief but quite sophisticated discussion of the issue of race eugenics and whether the "professional class" of Negroes would be self-sustaining through its own reproductivity;" Miller's preliminary conclusion is that "the upper class is headed towards extinction unless reinforced from the fruitful mass below." Kelly Miller 1863-1939 was the first African American to receive graduate education in Mathematics Johns Hopkins 1887-89; he later founded the Department of Sociology at Howard University where he taught until 1934. Though less widely-known today than his more famous contemporaries Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois Miller was arguably the most influential Black intellectual of his era a prolific articulate and widely-published advocate for Negro education and civil rights once called by Carter Woodson "undoubtedly the greatest pamphleteer of the Negro race. [Washington, D.C.: by the Author, 1917] unknown books
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