Born a slave in Thomasville, Georgia, Henry Ossian Flipper (1856–1940) became the first African-American to graduate from the United States Military Academy. The Colored Cadet... Read More
History of this women’s charity founded in 1907, an outgrowth from the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. A brief biography of its founder, Mary Emma Cabaniss..... Read More
Otis Dunn, a black man, is an ex-F.B.I. Agent turned bounty hunter. Manhunter is sold as a “suspenseful story set against the interplay of Southern..... Read More
Twelve stories, first edition of Dunbar’s first prose collection. A remarkably bright and exceptional copy. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1898. Rust-brown cloth, stamped..... Read More
Dunbar’s first novel, originally published by Lippincott in the same year as the book. BAL 4923, binding A with Dunbar’s middle name spelled incorrectly. This..... Read More
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
Wright’s scarce 1911 doctoral thesis. The third Black American to receive a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. The present work is a thorough work..... Read More
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
Life in Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s with efforts to investigate numerous questions such as: “What is the Negro’s attitude toward his white employer..... Read More
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Life in Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s with efforts to investigate numerous questions such as: “What is the Negro’s attitude toward his white employer..... Read More
At the time of this book’s issue, Chicago was the second-largest Black population in America. Drake, a trained anthropologist, presents the social history of African-Americans..... Read More
At the time of this book’s issue, Chicago was the second-largest Black population in America. Drake, a trained anthropologist, presents the social history of African-Americans..... Read More
Advertising card for a public reading of African American poetry, given by Truda T. Weil at the Woman’s Club of Reading, Pennsylvania. The program consisted..... Read More
First Edition of the first comprehensive anthology of African American literature. Blockson 101: “A classic of its kind, the volume was the most extensive collection... Read More
Second printing of the first comprehensive anthology of African American literature. Within are texts by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Booker T. Washington, James Weldon... Read More
“A classic of its kind, the volume was the most extensive collection of pre-World War II Afro-American writings ever published. This impressive and indispensable anthology..... Read More
Thoughts on post-war peace by this noted African American sociologist, historian, and Pan-Africanist, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963), published in what were the waning months of..... Read More
Du Bois’s attempt to refute the position that the black American had no future. “The volume was inspired in part by the failure of the..... Read More
The author’s first book. Blockson 101, #47 (for the first edition): “Du Bois launched his interest in black consciousness with his doctoral dissertation. The Suppression..... Read More
The author’s first book. Blockson 101, #47 (for the first edition): “Du Bois launched his interest in black consciousness with his doctoral dissertation. The Suppression..... Read More
First Edition of the author’s first book, this copy formerly from the library of the New England finishing school, Miss Porter’s School, in Farmington, Connecticut..... Read More
One of a series of studies of “so-called Negro problems” co-edited by African-American sociologist and academic W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) and his student, Augustus Granville..... Read More
One of a series of academic studies of African Americans published by Atlanta University and edited by African-American sociologist and academic, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963)..... Read More
One of a series of academic studies of African Americans published by Atlanta University and edited by African-American sociologist and academic, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963)..... Read More
One of a series of academic studies of African Americans published by Atlanta University and edited by African-American sociologist and academic, W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)..... Read More
