A Glance Away.
The author’s first book. Wideman twice won the International PEN/Faulkner Award (the first to do so) and in 2000 won the O. Henry Award. The.....
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![The Emancipation Proclamation. [Inscribed by Author]. John Hope Franklin, 1915–2009.](/pictures/thumb/3728026_1.jpg?v=1546963424)
The Emancipation Proclamation. [Inscribed by Author]
Centennial history of Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation which freed 3.5 million enslaved African Americans. The “evolution of the document in the mind of Lincoln.....
![The Diary of James T. Ayers Civil War Recruiter. [Inscribed by the Author]. John Hope Franklin,...](/pictures/thumb/3727878_1.jpg?v=1542302142)
The Diary of James T. Ayers Civil War Recruiter. [Inscribed by the Author]
American Civil War diary of Kentucky-native James T. Ayers, “...an Illinois lay preacher who served in Sherman’s Army. His day-by-day entries constitute a humorous and.....
![Youngblood. [Inscribed Copy]. John O. Killens, 1916–1987, John Oliver Killens.](/pictures/thumb/3727372_1.jpg?v=1545242456)
Youngblood. [Inscribed Copy]
Novel about a black family’s struggles in a Southern factory town, set in 1920s–1930s Crossroads, Georgia. Killens, a native of Macon, Georgia, wrote six novels.....
The Cotillion or One Good Bull is Half the Herd.
Novel of an upwardly mobile black woman who wants her daughter to move up into New York’s café society. Inscribed by the author: “For the.....
Truth Stranger than Fiction. Father Henson’s Story of His own Life. With an Introduction by Mrs. H.B. Stowe.
“Henson, known as the ‘real Uncle Tom,’ was thought to be an imposter while he visited England before the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But.....
The Colored Cadet at West Point An Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S. A, First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military Academy.
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...
When Word is Given… A Report on Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and the Black Muslim World.
African American writer and social critic’s first-hand reporting on the Black Muslim movement in America. In 1959, Lomax introduced white Americans to the Black Muslim.....
Why We Can’t Wait.
King’s third book, Why We Can’t Wait, includes the first book appearance of his celebrated “Letter from Birmingham Jail” written after he was arrested in.....
History of the Helping Hand Club of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church.
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.....
Otis Dunn Manhunter.
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.....
Folks from Dixie.
Twelve stories, first edition of Dunbar’s first prose collection. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1898. First Edition. Rust-brown cloth, stamped in gilt and black.....
Majors and Minors: Poems by Paul Lawrence Dunbar.
According to Charles Blockson, “Dunbar (1872-1906) was the leading Afro-American literary’ figure before World War I.” DANB informs through “the help of Dr. H. A......
Dark Testament and Other Poems.
Posthumous collection of poems by American civil rights and women’s rights activist, co-founder of NOW, lawyer and Episcopal priest, Anna Pauline Murray (1910-1985). Many of.....
The Invisible Man. [Signed by Author]
Ellison’s first book, a significant addition to 20th century American literature, winner of the National Book Award in the year of its publication. This edition.....
Annals of the First African Church, in the United States of America, Now Styled The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, Philadelphia [...] Established by Absalom Jones, Richard Allen and Others, in 1787… [with carte de visite photograph of author]
First edition of this rare history of the first African Episcopal Church in America, St. Thomas Church in Philadelphia. Mounted opposite the title page is...
Black Boy. A Record of Childhood and Youth.
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......
The Negro in Pennsylvania. A Study in Economic History. A Thesis Submitted to the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Ph.D.
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.....
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.....
New World A-Coming. Inside Black America.
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.....
![New World A-Coming. Inside Black America. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]. Roi Ottley.](/pictures/thumb/3727028_1.jpg?v=1538433152)
New World A-Coming. Inside Black America. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]
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.....
![Rosa Parks: My Story. [Signed by Rosa Parks]. Rosa Parks, with Jim Haskins.](/pictures/thumb/3727568_1.jpg?v=1552928941)
Rosa Parks: My Story. [Signed by Rosa Parks]
Autobiographical memoir by this icon of the American Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s, made famous by her refusal to give up her seat to...
The Black Metropolis. A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City.
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.....
The Negro Poets by Truda Weil. Thursday Afternoon ... 1932 ... The Literature Division of the Woman’s Club.
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.....
The Negro Caravan. Writings by American Negroes.
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...
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