AMERICA'S RACE PROBLEMS Addresses at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philadelphia

New York: McClure, Phillips and Company. Near Fine. 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. 187 pages; Clean and secure in original navy blue cloth binding with stylized gilt lettering at spine and front board. Original owner's name stamped on ffep "H. Jennings." OCLC 868014826 A fascinating collection of articles on various aspects of race relations in America at the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries. Papers delivered include "The Relation of the Negroes to the Whites in the South" by W.E. Burghardt DuBois [Professor Atlanta University] ; "The Relation of the Negroes to the Whites" by George T. Winston; "The Causes of Race Superiority" by Edward A. Ross [noted eugenicist]; "The Natives of Hawaii" by Titus Munson Coan [son of early anglo missionaries/settlers in Hawaii; The Races of the Philippines - The Tagals" by Charles C. Pierce [Army chaplain]; "The Semi-Civilized Tribes of the Philippines" by Oliver C. Miller; "Our Relation to the People of Cuba and Porto Rico" by Orville H. Platt; "The Spanish Population of Cuba and Porto Rico" by Charles M. Pepper. James Hennen Jennings (1854-1920) was a mining engineer, born at Hawesville, KY. After attending private schools in London and Derbyshire, England, Jennings returned to Kentucky and set up a lumber business, but soon wanted to further his engineeering education. He graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University in 1877 with the degree C.E. Jennings then headed West and worked in gold and quicksilver mines in California for the next ten years. In 1887 he went to Venezuela for another mining job. Finally, his talents as an innovative mining engineer, took him to South Africa. During 1889-1905 he was consulting engineer of H. Eckstein, in Johannesburg, and Wemher Beit, in London. Jennings was chiefly responsible for the development and expansion of their mines, employing the most technologically advanced methods and equipment available in the day. In the rough and tumble of South Africa, he managed to keep out of John Hays Hammond's conspiracy to overthrow Kruger's government and to earn a fortune (the equivalent of about 10 million pounds in 2014) before he returned to America in 1905. .