![Those American R’s. Rule, Ruin, Restoration. [Inscribed Copy]. By One Who Has Been R'd, C. Oscar Beasley.](/images/noimage-req.png)
Those American R’s. Rule, Ruin, Restoration. [Inscribed Copy]
Presentation copy of this curious Reconstruction novel. The story appears to be set in fictional Georgia or North Carolina, near an early Moravian settlement. The... Read More
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Speech of Mr. Barton, of Missouri, in Reply to Mr. White, of Tennessee, Upon the Appropriation Bill. In the Senate of the United States, March 6, 1830.
Speech of U.S. Senator David Barton (1783–1837) of Missouri concerning debate on an appropriation bill. Barton takes his colleague Senator Hugh L. White of Tennessee... Read More
Paul Robeson Speaks. Writings. Speeches. Interviews. 1918–1974.
Documentary evidence of the rebellious and outspoken Paul Robeson; a man not just known for his extraordinary voice, but for his activist roots in American... Read More
Mau Mau Detainee. The Account by a Kenyan African of His Experiences in Detention Camps 1953–1960.
The experiences of the author as a young man while detained for being an activist in the Mau Mau movement in Kenya. A book written... Read More
The Colored American Magazine. August, 1900.
The Colored American Magazine is a rare, short-lived, and important African-American periodical published in Boston from 1900 to 1909. Contributing authors over its run included... Read More
An Autobiography. The Story of the Lord’s Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith The Colored Evangelist ... With an Introduction by Bishop Thoburn, of India.
Born a slave, her freedom eventually purchased by her father, Amanda Smith lived as a domestic servant until becoming a Protestant evangelist. As such, she... Read More
Finding a Way Out. An Autobiography.
A Virginia-native and Hampton Institute student, Moton (1867-1940) was a protégé of Booker T. Washington and upon the death of his mentor was named Principal... Read More
![The American Negro. What he Was, What He Is, and What He May Become. A Critical and Practical Discussion. [Association Copy]. William Hannibal Thomas.](/pictures/thumb/3727975_1.jpg?v=1541628086)
The American Negro. What he Was, What He Is, and What He May Become. A Critical and Practical Discussion. [Association Copy]
First Edition and Association Copy. Rare to find inscribed and in such appealing condition. Written of as the “Black Judas”, African American William Hannibal Thomas... Read More
The Song of the Cotton Picker.
Introduction by Archibald Rutledge. With photographs by Carl Julien. Photos and poems that document the songs and daily life of the “gullah Negroes” of South... Read More
The Pickaninny Twins.
The adventures of the African-American Pickaninny Twins, one of a series of books about various twins written by the author. These particular twins speak in... Read More
The Picture-Poetry Book.
Lovely copy of this charming little book of poetry by this African American author and noted African American illustratror Lois Mailou Jones. Washington, D.C.: Associated... Read More
Epaminondas and His Auntie.
1930s American children’s book with the young African American boy, Epaminondas, as the protagonist; one who is always trying to do the right thing by... Read More
A History of Negro Education in the South: From 1619 to the Present.
The author examines the “educational opportunities of Southern Negroes from early colonial times to the present, [showing] that an unintended consequence of the slave economy... Read More
Separate and Unequal: Public School Campaigns and Racism in the Southern Seaboard States, 1901-1915.
Scarce first edition of Harlan’s analysis of “...the story of public education in the four Southern seaboard states [Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia]... Read More
Teach the Freeman: The Correspondence of Rutherford B. Hayes and the Slater Fund for Negro Education, Volume I: 1881-1887, Volume II: 1888-1893.
The Slater Fund was established after the end of the Civil War to provide monies to the recently emancipated Black populations of the Southern States... Read More
![[John Brown, Execution of:] The Iniquity: A Sermon Preached in The First Church, Dorchester, On Sunday, Dec. 11, 1859. Nathaniel Hall, 1805–1875.](/pictures/thumb/3727847_1.jpg?v=1541628074)
[John Brown, Execution of:] The Iniquity: A Sermon Preached in The First Church, Dorchester, On Sunday, Dec. 11, 1859.
Two anti-slavery sermons preached by Nathaniel Hall 1805–1875) in Dorchester, Massachusetts just days after the December 2, 1859 execution of radical abolitionist John Brown. The... Read More
![You Are Invited to Attend the Exercises and Exhibits of the Cheyney Community League Fair Day ... October 17, 1924… [opening lines of program]. Cheyney Training School for Teachers, Lesley Pinckney Hill.](/pictures/thumb/3727843_1.jpg?v=1541628072)
You Are Invited to Attend the Exercises and Exhibits of the Cheyney Community League Fair Day ... October 17, 1924… [opening lines of program]
Rare; unrecorded. In 1924—three years after the re-issue of The Birth of a Nation movie which spurred a resurgence of interest in the K.K.K.—progressive Black... Read More
![Spring Frolic presented by Colored Choral Society ... West Chester High School Auditorium… [opening lines of program]. William Palmer Lear, Miss Julia Gilbert.](/pictures/thumb/3727842_1.jpg?v=1541628071)
Spring Frolic presented by Colored Choral Society ... West Chester High School Auditorium… [opening lines of program]
Rare; unrecorded. Music program for this Chester County African American choral society, heavily in the balance of female members. The music choices are interesting, in... Read More
A Story of the Original Ku Klux Klan.
History of the founding of the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee inscribed by the author to American Civil War historian, Bell Irvin Wiley (1906–1980)... Read More
Klansmen: Guardians of Liberty.
Anti-Roman Catholic diatribe by Bishop Alma Bridwell White (1862–1946), feminist, evangelist, founder of the break-away Methodist church, Pillar of Fire International, and supporter of the... Read More
Paul Robeson. Souvenir-Program. March 18, 1932. Academy of Music.
Concert program of classical music and Negro Spirituals given by baritone Paul Robeson (1898–1976), celebrated actor, singer, and civil rights activist. The concert was performed... Read More
[Two manuscript gatherings from an American Play in verse about Native Americans, possibly serving as a prompt copy for an actor’s part].
Fragment of an early nineteenth century manuscript play about Native Americans, likely set during the French and Indian War. The play appears to be an... Read More
Twenty-Two Years’ Work of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute.
Title continues: “Records of Negro and Indian Graduates and ex-Students With historical and personal sketches and testimony on important race questions from within and without... Read More
Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers. Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen Ludlow. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs Arranged by Thomas P. Fenner.
Story, mission, progress, and multiple descriptions and viewpoints of life at the Hampton Institute for African-Americans and native Americans; this title published almost a decade... Read More
Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers. Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen Ludlow. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs Arranged by Thomas P. Fenner.
Story, mission, progress, and multiple descriptions and viewpoints of life at the Hampton Institute for African-Americans and native Americans; this title published almost a decade... Read More