Anti-Slavery. The Crusade for Freedom in America.
A “definitive study of the intense development of the anti-slavery movement” and being a work of excellent scholarship. Dumond describes all scenarios of the movement;.....
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Infantile Paralysis: Notice From Board of Health [caption title].
A small circular stating that, as of August 27, 1916, children of sixteen years of age or younger are legally prevented from entering the town...
Negro Year Book. An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1931-1932.
This the original publication of the eighth annual Negro Year Book for 1931-1932. These were encyclopedic and statistical reports compiled by African-American sociologist Monroe N....
The Negro in Sports.
Profusely illustrated profile of African Americans in American sports up until just before 1940: “Here in a long review pass the Negroes, both professional and...
The Splendid Splinter. [Inscribed by Author]
A cheaply-produced book, likely produced in small quantity, written to celebrate baseball great Ted Williams. This copy with a very interesting thirteen-line inscription by the...
Roberto Clemente: Batting King.
Handsome copy of this baseball profile of Roberto Clemente, native of Puerto Rico. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, (1968). No additional printings stated. A “Putnam.....
Not Without Laughter.
ANB notes that “Hughes dedicated Not without Laughter to his friends and early patrons, the Spingarns.” New York: Knopf, 1930. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth without.....
The Big Sea.
Partial autobiography of Langston Hughes documenting his life up to 1931. Hughes wrote this title while living in Carmel, California. (ANB) New York: Knopf, 1940...
The Panther and the Lash. Poems of Our Times.
Seventy poems offered by this important black American author, poet, essayist reflecting “various aspects of the racial turmoil that has rocked this country in the.....
Soldiers of Freedom. An Illustrated History of African Americans in the Armed Forces.
A chronological and heavily-illustrated overview of the role of black Americans in America’s military since the American Revolution all the way up the Afghanistan. “This.....
The Negro in the Armed Forces.
War-time patriotic book offering insight into African Americans serving in the United States military. Chapters address military history and traditions of blacks, “some important consideration.....
The Negro’s Civil War. How Americans Felt and Acted During the War for the Union. [Inscribed & Signed, First Edition]
This noted American historian writes of the Civil War from the perspective of African Americans; how they “felt, and how they played an important role.....
Jackie Robinson. My Own Story.
The story of how this talented black American broke the color barrier to become an American baseball great. With a foreword by then-baseball commissioner Branch...
The Negro Ghetto.
Weaver’s book (of four he published) describes perpetual segregation in the North, concentrating on the problems of housing for black Americans (such as the plight.....
Path of Freedom. The Black Presence in New Jersey’s Burlington County, 1659-1900. [Inscribed and Signed by Author]
The author shows the many ways in which African Americans contributed to Burlington County’s history. Contents include: their presence in the Revolutionary War, work with.....
Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens. Historical, Sociological and Biographical.
Historical survey and sketches of African Americans and African American life and society in Cincinnati, Ohio. Includes over 150 pages of “[b]iographical sketches of citizens.....
The Black Worker. The Negro and the Labor Movement.
An economic and social study of the African American workforce, labor market conditions, and trade union politics in the early 20th century. Contents include: The...
Richard Allen, Apostle of Freedom.
Biography of Richard Allen (1760–1831), former enslaved African American, preacher, hymn book publisher, and founder and first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church (A.M.E.).....
Black Workers and the New Unions.
Examination of the “problems of Negro labor and its relation to white labor, North and South, under the impact of the New Deal.” Cayton and.....
The Negro in Pennsylvania. Slavery - Servitude - Freedom, 1639-1861.
A specific study of the “legal, social, and economic history of the Pennsylvania negro in his rise from slavery to freedom.” Winner of the Justin.....
Colonists in Bondage. White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776.
“Colonists In Bondage tells the paradoxical story of those white men and women who endured servitude as a road to freedom. Voluntarily or involuntarily, they.....
100 Years After Emancipation. (History of the Philadelphia Negro, 1787 to 1963).
A comprehensive report on the social and economic condition of the African American community in Philadelphia from 1787 to 1963. From the preface, “This book...
History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860.
American economic history in the agriculture sector of the southern states. A monumental study cited by numerous scholars since its publication. Washington: Carnegie Institution of...
Southern Negroes, 1861-1865. [Inscribed and Signed by Author]
“A classic account of what happened to Southern Negroes in their transition from slavery to freedom during the Civil War. The book examines the changing.....
The Negro in Maryland. A Study of the Institution of Slavery.
A history of African American slavery in the state of Maryland from 1634 to 1888. From the Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political...