The Common Sense of Segregation
[Glen Alpine, North Carolina]: [Published by the author], ©1959. A defense of segregation by the North Carolina educator who admits that much remains to be done to ensure equality for African Americans, but which "cannot be accomplished by forced association or bludegeoned good-will" (p. [10]).
Zeb Vance Kitchin Dickson was born in 1908 in the Blue Ridge Mountains and attended Appalachian State Teachers College. He was an English teacher and principal in a number of North Carolina schools before retiring in the early 1970s. In 1972, he ran for North Carolina governor when he heard the state wanted to raise the speed limit to 70 on the highway. He also ran against school busing and teacher's unions. Although he came in last, he ran again in 1976. He died in 1996 in Eden.
12mo. Brown cloth boards stamped in gilt, [4], [13] pp., photo frontis of the author. INSCRIBED by Dickson to Preface page. Although not stated, the book was printed in Charlotte at the Associated Commerical Printers. Slight musty smell, small white stain to the front board, but a very good copy. Item #14893
Price: $125.00