![Three-Fifths of a Man. [First Edition, Inscribed and Signed]. Floyd McKissick](/pictures/thumb/3727039_1.jpg?v=1578529824)
Floyd Bixler McKissick (1922–1991), Civil Rights activist, lawyer, founder of Soul City, author; born in —and with strong roots to— North Carolina. McKissick experienced prejudice..... Read More about Three-Fifths of a Man. [First Edition, Inscribed and Signed
A facsimile edition from the “Ebony Classics” of the second of three autobiographies, My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass with a four-page Foreword..... Read More about My Bondage and My Freedom
History of the A.M.E. church with much on the slave and Reconstruction eras. With a chapter of biographical sketches of important church leaders and a...... Read More about The Romance of African Methodism. A Study of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
![The Trend of the Races. [Review Copy with Ephemera]. George E. Haynes](/pictures/thumb/3727575_1.jpg?v=1540332418)
Accompanying this book is a small 3pp., leaflet, in part, describing the work, thus: “A thoughtful attempt to show the relations between the white and..... Read More about The Trend of the Races. [Review Copy with Ephemera
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 about The Picture-Poetry Book
History of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, founded in 1854 as Ashmun Institute and considered by many as the oldest HBCU begun as an institution of..... Read More about Education for Freedom. A History of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania
Self-published memoir of African American Isaac Robbins of Alabama, a WWII veteran, small business owner, brick mason, and civil rights worker for the NAACP. Robbins’..... Read More about Glimpse of Providence. A Black Boy’s Experience in Foreign Lands
Single issue of the underground New York City newspaper, The East Village Other, featuring the headline article “Black Power in the Ghetto: two flags, a...... Read More about Ishmael Reed’s “Black Power in the Ghetto: two flags, a stepladder, and a megaphone”...
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
Undoubtedly printed in a small run; remarkably scarce with only one copy recorded in OCLC (Library of Congress). Anthology of creative or historical works, addresses..... Read More about An Unfailing Legacy
First edition of Baldwin’s first book, a mid-century American literature classic story of a fourteen-year-old city boy’s spiritual, sexual, and moral awakening. Told partly through..... Read More about Go Tell It On the Mountain
Fact book for the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) church, the first independent U.S. black church, presented in a catechism-like format, with questions and answers. Includes..... Read More about Vital Facts Concerning the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Its Origin, Doctrines, Government,...
Volume of poems by civil-rights leader, Harlem Renaissance poet, and novelist, James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938). In addition to the title poem, the book includes such..... Read More about Saint Peter Relates an Incident. Selected Poems
![Pioneers of Long Ago. [Lois Mailou Jones, Illustrator]. Jessie Hailstalk Roy, Geneva Calcier Turner](/pictures/thumb/3728182_1.jpg?v=1545174819)
With compelling illustrations by Lois Mailou Jones, an American history book for African American youth, written by two African American women from Washington, D.C. Each..... Read More about Pioneers of Long Ago. [Lois Mailou Jones, Illustrator
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..... Read More about A Glance Away
![The Diary of James T. Ayers Civil War Recruiter. [Inscribed by the Author]. John Hope Franklin,...](/pictures/thumb/3727878_1.jpg?v=1542302142)
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..... Read More about The Diary of James T. Ayers Civil War Recruiter. [Inscribed by the Author
![Youngblood. [Inscribed Copy]. John O. Killens, 1916–1987, John Oliver Killens](/pictures/thumb/3727372_1.jpg?v=1545242456)
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..... Read More about Youngblood. [Inscribed Copy
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..... Read More about The Cotillion or One Good Bull is Half the Herd
Important account of Reconstruction in Mississippi written by an African American participant there at the time, John R. Lynch, former U.S. Congressman, 1873–1877 and 1882–1883..... Read More about Facts of Reconstruction
History and hardships of African American soldiers in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Civil War written by an African American veteran..... Read More about The Black Phalanx; A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the wars of 1775-1812,...
History and hardships of African American soldiers in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Civil War written by an African American veteran..... Read More about The Black Phalanx; A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the wars of 1775-1812,...
![New Negro Poets. [Edited by Langston Hughes; Signed by Helen Morgan Brooks]. LeRoi Jones Julian Bond](/pictures/thumb/3728976_1.jpg?v=1572982490)
Anthology of poetry by over thirty African American writers, primarily men. This copy is inscribed by contributor Helen Morgan Brooks who offers two poems within..... Read More about New Negro Poets. [Edited by Langston Hughes; Signed by Helen Morgan Brooks
Abridged edition of the editors’ almost 2,100-page reference work of the same title, a work inspired by a dream of African American scholar, W.E.B. Du..... Read More about Africana. The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. The Concise Desk...
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..... Read More about The Big Sea
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..... Read More about Not Without Laughter
