Feeling the Spirit (Signed)

Bantam, 1994-09-01. Hardcover. Like New. 12x9x1. Signed. Flat signed by Chester Higgins Jr. on title page. From the library of Dr. Ralph Gomes, Howard University. Hardcover and dust jacket. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Owner's name on jacket. Clean, unmarked pages. <br> Photographer and author Chester Higgins, Jr. was born in Fairhope, Alabama. Higgins's years attending Tuskegee University in the late 1960s served as his inspiration to pursue a career in photography; during this time, he saw the work of photographer P.H. Polk, a man who would become his first mentor. Polk's images powerfully impacted the viewer because of the way that they showed the dignity of African American life in the rural South during the 1930s. Higgins graduated in 1970 from Tuskegee University, and soon after moved to New York City to begin his professional career; his first assignment was to follow and document the political activities of Jesse Jackson, then a young civil rights activist. In 1975, Higgins began his work as a photographer for the New York Times, an association that would continue throughout his professional career. Over the years, Higgins's photographs were also published in Look, Life, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Ebony, Essence and Black Enterprise magazines. <br> Dr. Gomes was a professor at Howard University for 49 years in sociology and criminology. He was also a former Olympic athlete, representing Guyana in the 1960 Rome summer Olympics. Besides his scholarly work, Gomes was active in the black liberation movement. He had an impressive and deep collection of black art, historical advertising and iconography that spoke of the passage of black people and how they sought to record their life stories. His collection spanned from slavery, to antebellum life, to Jim Crow, to the Harlem Renaissance, to sport, to the civil rights movement. <br> This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.