The Early Years Of The Saturday Club 1855-1870 (Ownership Signature Of Moorfield Storey, National President Of The Naacp 1909-1929)

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Plates, With Tissue Guards. Xii, 515 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. First Edition, Volume I Of What Became A 3 Volume History. The Saturday Club, Established In 1855, Was An Informal Monthly Gathering In Boston, Massachusetts, Of Writers, Scientists, Philosophers, Historians, And Other Notable Thinkers Of The Mid-Nineteenth Century. Out Of Its Meetings Evolved What Became The Atlantic Monthly. This Copy With Ownership Signature Of Moorfield Storey, A Member Of The Club Since Circa 1894/5-, President In 1925, With His Address At 175 Walnut St., Brookline. Moorfield Storey (March 19, 1845 - October 24, 1929) Was An American Lawyer, Anti-Imperial Activist, And Civil Rights Leader Based In Boston, Massachusetts. According To Storey's Biographer, William B. Hixson, Jr., He Had A Worldview That Embodied "Pacifism, Anti-Imperialism, And Racial Egalitarianism Fully As Much As It Did Laissez-Faire And Moral Tone In Government." Storey Served As The Founding President Of The National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People (Naacp), Serving From 1909 To His Death In 1929. He Opposed United States Expansionism Beginning With The Spanish-American War. An Opponent Of Military Intervention In General, Storey Spoke At The First Anti-Imperialist Mass Meeting In Boston In June 1898, Called Because Of The Spanish-American War. He Was A Vice President Of The New England Anti-Imperialist League. In Addition, He Wrote A Book Brief For The Lodge Committee Summarizing The War Crimes Of The Philippine-American War. From 1905 Until Its Dissolution In 1921 Storey Was President Of The National Anti-Imperialist League. He Perceived That "National Subjugation Overseas And Racial Persecution At Home Were Related," Which Drove His Efforts At Reform In The United States. Damon W. Root Touted Storey As An Historical Role Model For Libertarian Democrats In A December 2007 Article For Reason Magazine. (Wikipedia).