Pulitzer prize-winning author, active in American civil rights and women’s rights activities. She published essays in both Crisis, the journal of the NAACP, and Opportunity, the magazine of the Urban League; she was a trustee of Howard University for twenty years. TLS, two pages, first page is 8.5 x 11, second page trimmed to 8.5 x 6, December 19, 1949. Buck sends a brief Chinese poem to an admirer and follows with several politically charged paragraphs about the Chinese, revolution and Communism. In part, “We must remember that the present hour in China is simply part of the long revolution taking place there which began forty years ago. Had the Chinese been a really violent people, always barbarous fundamentally as the Russian peasants, we would have seen a far quicker and more bloody transition from the evil times to the modern…It is unfortunate that today revolution in any country tends toward the Communist pattern…Revolution in history has proved more or less wasteful…It is a tragedy that the democracies have not understood the necessitites of the millions of people in the world. The action of our own government, for example in refusing to join the plan for world food distribution recently proposed by FAO is a frightful example of what I mean. Food is what people are fighting for…Yet we are not willing…to put our food at the disposal of hungry people.” In very good condition, with multiple mailing folds, pencil notations to second page, trimmed second page, scattered light toning and paperclip impressions to top edges. R&R COA.
