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...... Read More about Majors and Minors: Poems by Paul Lawrence Dunbar
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..... Read More about Dark Testament and Other Poems
First book by Ralph Bunche, the first African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize by bringing the Israel and Arab states to agreement; a civil..... Read More about A World View of Race
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Warmly inscribed by the author to James Phinney Baxter III, historian, academic, Pulitzer Prize-winner for history. An exhaustive study of this topic; “This is the..... Read More about The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with Haiti 1776-1891. [Inscribed Copy
Immediate post-World War II survey of the plight Blacks in Africa, the West Indies, Latin America, and the United States by Howard University professor, author..... Read More about The Negro and the Post-War World, A Primer
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..... Read More about Annals of the First African Church, in the United States of America, Now Styled The African...
Autobiographical memoir by Reverdy Cassius Ransom (1861–1959), African American Christian socialist and civil rights activist. He served in the African Methodist Episcopal Church as the..... Read More about The Pilgrimage of Harriet Ransom’s Son
History and biographical sketches of African Americans in Maryland, from slavery times till the time of this book’s publication. Notable names, such as Frederick Douglass..... Read More about Men of Maryland
Autographed by Richard Wright on the dedication page; published in the same year as Wright’s magnum opus Native Son which would become an instant bestseller..... Read More about How “Bigger” Was Born. The Story of Native Son, one of the most significant novels of our...
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
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 about The Negro in Pennsylvania. A Study in Economic History. A Thesis Submitted to the University of...
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Race inequality overview by long-time Tuskegee Institute principal and successor to Booker T. Washington, Robert Russa Moton. From the text: “Meanwhile nothing can contribute more..... Read More about What The Negro Thinks. [Inscribed and Signed by 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..... Read More about New World A-Coming. Inside Black America
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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 about New World A-Coming. Inside Black America. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author
Lengthy letter from Charleston, South Carolina law student Thomas Lowndes (1766–1843) discussing, in part, the U.S. Constitution—ratified by the states just 18 days earlier, the..... Read More about 1788 Autograph Letter Signed by Thomas Lowndes, Law Student and later South Carolina Congressman,...
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 about The Negro Poets by Truda Weil. Thursday Afternoon ... 1932 ... The Literature Division of the...
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 about The Negro Caravan. Writings by American Negroes
First comprehensive anthology of African American literature. Blockson 101: “A classic of its kind, the volume was the most extensive collection of pre-World War II..... Read More about The Negro Caravan. Writings by American Negroes
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 about Black Folk: Then And Now. An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race
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 about The Negro American Artisan
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 about Economic Co-Operation among Negro Americans
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 about Efforts for Social Social Betterment among Negro Americans
“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
The contribution of African-American men and women in the building of America. Du Bois dedicates chapters to black explorers, labor, soldiers, the “Freedom of Womanhood”..... Read More about The Gift of Black Folk. Negroes in the Making of America
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First two volumes—eight issues in all—of Phylon, a quarterly academic journal dedicated to issues of race and culture from an African American perspective, edited by..... Read More about Phylon, The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture [Volumes I and II
