He also wrote about well known artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe and John Marin,[2] and about writers like D. H. Lawrence, Albert R. Brand, and J. Hendrix McLane.
His review of Lady Chatterley's Lover appeared in The New York Sun but was removed from later editions because of the obscenity ban.
[3] Seligmann was the first publicity director for the NAACP between 1919 and 1932,[4] and was interviewed about the group's history on WNYC's radio program for African American subject matter.
[10] Seligmann's 1920 book, The Negro Faces America, described an American psychosis when it came to skin color with economic and media difficulties exacerbating the problem.
[11] Basing his conclusions on first-hand looks at areas of where riots occurred,[12] Seligmann makes the case that race colors all aspects of American life that disadvantages and disenfranchises African Americans and lays the conditions for race riots.
Lane (Jr) writes that the very fact that such a book was written gives hope for a new dawn in race relations in the United States.
H. L. Mencken faulted the book for a lack of criticism of blacks and for idealizing them as a group instead of addressing issues Southern whites actually experienced in their encounters.