Gellert, Lawrence. [Editor]. Negro Songs of Protest. . New York: American Music League. 1936. First edition. Illustrations by Hugo Gellert. Gellert personally recorded and gathered 24 spirituals and slave songs by traveling through the "Black Belt armed with a mechanical phonograph, a sawed-off megaphone and a bundle of blank aluminium records." Arranged for voice and piano by Elie Siegmeister. In suede-like wrappers and paper dustjacket with Gellert's illustration of a chained slave. Jacket heavily chipped, else fine. Scarce.