Van Deusen’s book narrative flow is one peppered with facts, an overview of the black experience in 20th century America, through the author’s interpretation. African-Americans..... Read More about The Black Man in White America
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Important and innovative study on Reconstruction in the South following the American Civil War by a noted African American academic and writer. Franklin’s “work on..... Read More about Reconstruction After the Civil War. [inscribed by the author
![“You Cannot Kill the Working Class” [cover title]. Angelo Herndon, 1913–1997, Angelo...](/pictures/thumb/3729858_1.jpg?v=1604510048)
Rare autobiographical pamphlet by Angelo Herndon (1913–1997), Black labor organizer and Communist Party activist. The pamphlet issued after he was convicted and imprisoned in Georgia..... Read More about “You Cannot Kill the Working Class” [cover title
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Handbill advertising a cabaret-dance sponsored by the Brothers of Omega Psi Chi fraternity at Lincoln University (HBCU). The evening’s entertainment was held at Town Hall..... Read More about 1961 Lincoln University (HBCU) fraternity broadside:] Cabaret-Dance Relay Rendezvous Part...
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Separately Issued reprint containing Holmes’s observations of his tenure at Howard University, in two parts and here collected together. Holmes, a native of West Virginia..... Read More about Fifty Years of Howard University. [Dwight Oliver Wendell Holmes
Interesting letter from Johns Hopkins Hospital co-founder and pioneering gynecological researcher and surgeon, Dr. Howard A. Kelly (1858–1943), in which he comments on his own..... Read More about 1891 TLS by Johns Hopkins Hospital Professor and Gynecology Pioneer, Dr. Howard A. Kelly,...
Scientist and Statesman James Bowdoin II (1726–1790) of Boston here pens a receipt and signs it for Thomas Seymour for £113/5/4 paid to Bowdoin on..... Read More about Two 18th Century Bowdoin Family Manuscripts: a 1757 Receipt Signed by James Bowdoin, later...
Eyewitness account of the Confederate Attack on Petersburg, Virginia at the Battle of Fort Stedman on March 25, 1865 by Union infantry soldier, Private James..... Read More about Eyewitness Account of the Battle of Fort Stedman: 1865 Civil War Letter by a Union Infantry...
1833 Letter to U.S. Secretary of War Lewis Cass from Dr. Robert Mayo, a U.S. Treasury official, likely concerning the first compilation of U.S. pension..... Read More about 1833 ALS to U.S. Secretary of War Lewis Cass from U.S. Treasury Official, Dr. Robert Mayo,...
Ten Victorian non-fiction “paperback” books, all published by Funk & Wagnalls in New York as part of their “Standard Library” of mass-market books. These inexpensive..... Read More about 19th Century “Paperback” Literature: 10 Volumes from Funk & Wagnalls’ “Standard...
Modestly illustrated throughout. Two hundred and thirty-eight items thoroughly described. The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1969. Octavo, 83 pages. First edition. Printed wrappers as issued..... Read More about Negro History 1553-1903. An Exhibition of Books, Prints, and Manuscripts From the Shelves of the...
Biography of Radical Republican journalist and diplomat James Shepherd Pike (1811–1882) of Maine. Pike was the author of The Prostrate State: South Carolina under Negro..... Read More about James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882
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Two hundred shares issued in 1869, a few months after the railroad opened its tracks from Kansas City to Olathe. The Missouri River, Fort Scott..... Read More about Stock Certificate:] Missouri River Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad Company, Incorporated under the...
![C.1902 Pennsylvania Election Polling Place Broadside:] Instructions to Voters and Election...](/pictures/thumb/3729832_1.jpg?v=1604510047)
Pursuant to an Act of the Pennsylvania Assembly concerning elections, the state required that sections of that Act pertaining to voting procedures, ballots, voters, and..... Read More about C.1902 Pennsylvania Election Polling Place Broadside:] Instructions to Voters and Election Officers
Less than a week after the Battle of Tarqui fought between Gran Colombian and Peruvian forces, Papal diplomat in Peru Achille Allier writes to his..... Read More about 1829 Autograph Letter Signed by a Papal Diplomat in Peru to American Diplomat William Tudor in...
Biography of Radical Republican journalist and diplomat James Shepherd Pike (1811–1882) of Maine. Pike was the author of The Prostrate State: South Carolina under Negro..... Read More about James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882
The author examines the “responses of white racists to emancipation and reconstruction ... it is a description of the origins and early applications of American..... Read More about Black Scare. The Racist Response to Emancipation and Reconstruction
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Third Edition of the author’s most important book first published in 1947, the same year he joined the faculty of Howard University. “That year Alfred..... Read More about From Slavery to Freedom, A History of American Negroes. [Third edition
Rare circular; notable for an excellent and large engraving showing the Technical Institute on Sussex Street, Sidney. Page [1] lists all of the member of..... Read More about 1887 Curriculum Notice published for Sydney Technical College by the Board of Technical Education...
![Drum. [Falconcrest Series]. Kyle Onstott, 1887–1966](/pictures/thumb/3729823_1.jpg?v=1604510046)
The second book in the Falconcrest trilogy, the sequel to Mandingo, and followed by Master of Falconhurst. The story of the plantation, Falconhurst, and the..... Read More about Drum. [Falconcrest Series
First edition of this autobiography written by this remarkable black American often associated with the Harlem Renaissance; lawyer, author, librettist, journalist, civil rights leader, educator..... Read More about Along This Way. The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson
Publicity card for the Black women’s vocal trio of Victoria Wallace, Valerie Holiday, and Helen Scott who performed as The Three Degrees. The card, which..... Read More about The Three Degrees. [caption title of publicity card for an African American women’s vocal trio
Limited edition autographed baseball print autographed by five Negro League Baseball players all of whom played for the New York Cubans. The New York Cubans..... Read More about Negro League Legends. [limited edition print autographed by 5 New York Cubans players
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Inscribed and signed by famed American historian Benson J. Lossing to Annette C. McAllister and dated 1863, Poughkeepsie, New York. Likely “Annette C. McAllister” is..... Read More about Martha Washington [Presentation and Association Copy
Unrecorded sheet music composed by Alfred Iversen, Esq., (1798–1873) attorney and Georgia politician, and later ardent secessionist; dedicated to Miss Martha D. Berrien of Georgia..... Read More about When the Birds to the South, Written and Respectfully Dedicated to Miss Martha D. Berrien of...
