RARE Native Activist Katherine Mayo Hand Signed Page JG Autographs COA

  

"Mother India" Katherine Mayo Hand Signed Page. Certified authentic by JG Autographs and comes with their Letter of.

27, 1867 - October 9, 1940 was an American historian and nativist. Entered the public sphere as a political writer advocating American nativism, opposition to non-white. And Catholic immigration to the United States. Along with promoting racist stereotypes of African Americans. For denouncing the Philippine Declaration of.

Religious grounds, and then went on to publish and promote her best-known. Work, Mother India (1927), a deeply critical.

Book on Indian society, religion and culture. The Indian independence movement, the book. Received a sharply divided reception upon its publication and was accused by.

Several authors of being Indophobic, including Mahatma. Mayo was born in Ridgway, Pennsylvania, to James Henry and.

Harriet Elizabeth (Ingraham) Mayo, and was educated privately. Graduation, she started work as a researcher and historian by helping Oswald Garrison Villard of the New York Evening Post whose. Biography Fifty Years After, a biography of the abolitionist John Brown, which was published in 1910. Villard was a founder of the American Anti-Imperialist League and. An officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Influenced Mayo to become active in several social reformist circles. Also became a member of the Mayflower. Society and maintained links with the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Which at the time largely shared her hostility towards non-white and. Mayo's early writings promoted anti-Catholicism and racist views towards people. Mayo combined anti-Catholicism and anti-Filipino sentiment in her.

Writings that opposed the Philippine Declaration of. Mayo's early journalistic works promoted an.

Nationalism and contained xenophobic remarks towards Irish immigrants, as well. As racist views of African Americans. Were sexually aggressive and lacked self-control, thus rendering them a threat. To "innocent white Anglo-Saxon women". Mayo put her writing skills. Behind the effort to establish the New York State Police and supported. Their efforts to suppress immigrants and African Americans whose involvement in.

Labor rights movements were viewed by Mayo as a threat to white.