Two humorously illustrated letters sent to a schoolgirl in Pennsylvania from a young married couple in Salem, Oregon, Frank L. Willman, Sr. and Etta Willman... Read More about 1892 and 1893, Two Humorously Illustrated Letters by Frank and Etta Willman of Salem, Oregon, One...
A history of African-American physicians and their exclusion from white medical associations until well into the 20th century. Dr. William Montague Cobb (1904-1990) was the... Read More about The First Negro Medical Society. A History of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of...
Historical and thematic study of African American newspaper publishing with an emphasis on civil rights and issues of race. Discusses such newspapers as Samuel Cornish’s..... Read More about The Negro Press in the United States
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Study of white supremacist South Carolina politician and later Democratic governor and U.S. Senator, Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918), and the popular movement he championed. This copy..... Read More about The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. [Inscribed Copy
Study of African American college educational opportunities and student preparatory requirements, signed by its author, J. Irving E. Scott, Ph.D., the Dean of Alcorn A.&M..... Read More about Negro Students & Their Colleges
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“Du Bois accepted an appointment as chair of the sociology department at Atlanta University, where he had already been teaching as a visiting professor during..... Read More about Dusk of Dawn. An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept. [Romare Bearden, Illustrator
Small archive of correspondence, financial documents, and papers kept by the Lancaster Bicycle Club of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. All dating from 1889, the collection covers such... Read More about 1889 Lancaster Bicycle Club of Pennsylvania, Small Archive of Printed Matter, Correspondence,...
Curious American religious notebook containing three sermons on verses from the Gospel of John—two in Welsh and one in English—and what appear to be financial..... Read More about Notebook with Welsh and English-Language Sermons and Financial Accounts of Welsh-Americans from...
![Frederick Douglass Autograph Sentiment]. Frederick Douglass](/pictures/thumb/3728361_1.jpg?v=1561565596)
Autograph sentiment by the great African American orator, author, and reformer. In this year, 1892, Douglass would revise his third autobiography, Life and Times of... Read More about Frederick Douglass Autograph Sentiment
![Dark Companion. [Signed by African American Arctic Explorer Matthew Henson and the Author]....](/pictures/thumb/3728169_1.jpg?v=1561563376)
Biography of African American explorer Matthew A. Henson (1866–1955), credited as the first man to reach the North Pole. This copy signed by Henson and... Read More about Dark Companion. [Signed by African American Arctic Explorer Matthew Henson and the Author
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A brief 3-line missive by Du Bois —“perhaps the most celebrated 20th century African American intellectual”— written to George Washington Ellis (1875–1919).¹ Ellis was graduated..... Read More about 1912 Typed Letter Signed by W.E.B. Du Bois on The Crisis Letterhead to George Washington Ellis
“Slavery is not yet abolished. Social Rights and Political Liberty are not yet won. Not only did we fail to give the colored and white..... Read More about False Reconstruction; or, The Slavery that is not Abolished
![Black Boy. A Record of Childhood and Youth. [Signed by Richard Wright]. Richard Wright](/pictures/thumb/3727475_1.jpg?v=1561563372)
First Edition of Richard Wright’s fourth book. The haunting tale of his incredibly chaotic and extraordinarily difficult Southern childhood. One filled with constant hunger, a...... Read More about Black Boy. A Record of Childhood and Youth. [Signed by Richard Wright
![Color [Signed by the Author]. Countee Cullen](/pictures/thumb/3727472_1.jpg?v=1561563371)
Autographed early printing of this African-American author’s first book of poetry. Color was published shortly after Countee Cullen was accepted into Harvard’s masters program. Cullen..... Read More about Color [Signed by the Author
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Double homicide. Murder in the music. What do you do, the lyrics ask, when you save up all your dough, but “When you feel in..... Read More about Double Homicide:] “Do Your Honey Do.” Comical Coon Song
At the 1912 Progressive or “Bull Moose” Party Convention a controversy arose over Southern black delegates. While the convention allowed black delegates from Northern States..... Read More about The Negro Question. Attitude of the Progressive Party Toward the Colored Race. Colonel...
First edition of the author’s magnum opus; one of the most powerful protest novels ever published on the African American condition in America. Blockson 101..... Read More about Native Son
The illustrated dust jacket shows Harriet Tubman, rifle at her side, pointing and leading the way to her people from enslavement to freedom. Carter G.... Read More about Harriet Tubman
Ellison’s first book, a significant addition to 20th century American literature, winner of the National Book Award in the year of its publication. Illustrated by..... Read More about The Invisible Man. [With Sheet Signed by Author
An important association copy, given by Robert Fulton to his Quaker friend, patron, and portrait sitter, Joseph Bringhurst, Jr. Joel Barlow’s The Columbiad is an..... Read More about The Columbiad a Poem. [Robert Fulton Association Copy; Likely Given to Fulton’s Quaker Friend,...
Small handbill explaining the use of a homeopathic medical instrument called a lebenswecker or “life awakener,” a skin prick device developed by Prussian wood turner..... Read More about Anweisung für Kranke unter der baunscheid’schen Behandlung. [Instruction for Patients under...
Unrecorded homeopathic medical tract—whose title roughly translates as “Rules of Conduct during a Homeopathic Treatment.” It was written by Dr. Arthur Lutze (1813–1870), an important..... Read More about Verhaltungsregeln während einer Homöopathischen Kur [Rules of Conduct during a Homeopathic...
Monograph on the role of African Americans in the Reconstruction-era of South Carolina, by a noted African American historian and academic. In 1922 Taylor [Alrutheus... Read More about The Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction
Curiously printed, 18th-century partly-printed bond issued by High Sheriff John Potter of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. John Potter became the first sheriff of Cumberland County in... Read More about 1755 Carlisle, Cumberland County Printed and Manuscript Bond between James McCord and James...
Coroner’s appointment autographed by Thomas Ward Veazey (1774-1842), the 24th Governor of Maryland, in office from January 1836 to January 1839. Before becoming governor, Veazey... Read More about Thomas Ward Veazey as Maryland Governor in 1836 Appoints as Medical Coroner Samuel McBride in...
