This biography of oil magnate and civil rights activist Jake Simmons, Jr., is a unique and inspirational true-life saga. "Greenberg's book tells of what seldom gets told: black achievement in mainstream America".--New York Daily News. Photos.
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This biography of oil magnate and civil rights activist Jake Simmons, Jr., is a unique and inspirational true-life saga. "Greenberg's book tells of what seldom gets told: black achievement in mainstream America".--New York Daily News. Photos.
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Good. Boards and spine tight. Bumping to the cover corners. Cover has shelf and edge wear. No apparent marks throughout this book. Some wear and/or rubbing to cover. Tracking available on most domestic orders.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. A very good copy in a very good, mylar protected DJ. 1st edition with complete number line. Some light general wear to DJ panels and DJ spine ends. Minor fading to DJ spine. Minor creasing to the top corner tips of the photo section which does not affect the photos. Small red remainder dot to the bottom of the page block. Overall, still a solid copy with tight binding and no names or inscriptions. Illustrated; 8vo., 311 pages.
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Very Good. Size: 9x6x1; Association copy, inscribed by Jonathan D. Greenberg on half title page. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Foxing to edges. 311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations; 25 cm. *Autographed by author. * African American oil broker and civil rights advocate Jake Simmons, was born on January 17, 1901, in Indian Territory at Sawokla, which later became Haskell. He emerged from a Creek freedman heritage to broker multimillion-dollar deals between large oil companies and emerging African nations. His maternal great-grandfather, Cow Tom, formerly a slave of a Creek Indian, served as an interpreter for the Creek in dealing with the U.S. government after the Civil War and afterward as a leader for many of the newly freed Creek slaves. Simmons's father owned a large ranch in the Haskell area. The senior Simmons's prosperity captured the attention of Booker T. Washington on one of his trips to Oklahoma. Washington stayed an evening at the ranch and sold both father and son on the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Jake Simmons, Jr., graduated from Tuskegee in 1919. After Tuskegee he married Melba Dorsey and worked in Detroit. By 1920 he had divorced Melba and moved back to Oklahoma, marrying Willie Eva Flowers. In the 1920s Simmons began brokering oil deals in eastern Oklahoma. During the hard times of the depressed 1930s he turned to real estate, selling farms around Muskogee to African Americans in East Texas who had made money in the new oil boom. The poor quality of the land in East Texas, as well as the area's pervasive discrimination and violence, helped Simmons convince many African Americans to move to Oklahoma. In the 1960s Simmons began brokering large deals with African countries, beginning with Liberia. He worked as a partner for Phillips Petroleum Company and later for Signal Oil and Gas Company. Always active in civil rights, Simmons pursued an early court case against separate schools in a 1938 suit under his wife's name, Simmons v. Muskogee Board of Education. In March 1939 the Supreme Court dismissed the Simmons' appeal from the U.S. District Court. Simmons acted as a leader in the local NAACP and served as state conference president from 1962 until 1968. He also served as a member of the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Commission, presided over the Negro Business League, and participated in the influential National Petroleum Council. Jake Simmons, Jr., died in Tulsa on March 24, 1981. His children, Jake Simmons III, a former undersecretary of the U.S. Interior, Donald, an economist who took over Simmons Royalty Company, Blanche, a social worker, and Kenneth, a Harvard-educated professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, all benefited from their father's strong leadership.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. Second printing. 311pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Slightly bumped corners else near fine in a fine dust jacket with slight edgewear.
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Very good in very good jacket. Size: 9x6x1; NOT an ex library book. 311 pages including the index. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped.
