Mission to Haiti. Report of the United Nations Mission of Technical Assistance to the Republic of Haiti
Lake Success, NY: United Nations, July 1949. Colophon stating "August 1959 – 5,000]. 8vo. xvii, 327 pages. Two folding maps in pocket at end (pocket separated along edges), black-and-white photographic reproductions throughout the text. Printed wrappers (a few stains, some toning and separation along front joint). Provenance: June Shagaloff Alexander (1928-2022), American civil rights activist (signature "June Shagaloff" on half-title and "Shagaloff" on front wrapper). Internally clean. Item #410632
Association copy owned by June Shagaloff Alexander who – one year after the publication of this exhaustive study of Haiti made by the United Nations – joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund headed by Thurgood Marshall (she was just finishing up her undergraduate degree at NYU; Shagaloff did not marry and take the name of Michael Alexander until 1970). This Report claimed that is "deserves attention as a new departure in United Nations activities. Undertaken at the request of the Haitian Government" it evolved out of various organizations' studies of the country's developmental problems. It was published with the support of the President Harry S. Truman and Haitian President Dusmarsais Estimé (Trygve Lie, introduction).
Price: $125.00