![3731411] Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange, Signed World Premiere Theatre Program. American Music...](/pictures/thumb/3731411_1.jpg?v=1654031118)
The theatre performance of Betsey Brown was adapted from Ntozake Shange’s same-named novel. The story is set in 1959 in a Black St. Louis community..... Read More about Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange, Signed World Premiere Theatre Program
![3731467] How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature. (Signed). Margaret Walker,...](/pictures/thumb/3731467_1.jpg?v=1658981185)
A member of the Chicago Black Renaissance, Margaret Walker (1915–1998) was the first woman to receive a national writing prize (1942) and her novel Jubilee..... Read More about How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature. (Signed
![3731452] Richard Wright: Letters to Joe C. Brown. Thomas Knipp](/pictures/thumb/3731452_1.jpg?v=1643486729)
“These few letters which Richard Wright wrote to his boyhood friend, Joe C. Brown, reveal something about the author’s hope, achievement, and, finally, his literary..... Read More about Richard Wright: Letters to Joe C. Brown
![3731451] The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems. Gwendolyn Brooks](/pictures/thumb/3731451_1.jpg?v=1643486728)
A collection of 15 poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize in any category. Brooks used the sizable influence..... Read More about The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems
![3731442] Winnie. (Signed). Gwendolyn Brooks](/pictures/thumb/3731442_1.jpg?v=1658603137)
Inscribed by the author in 1994. Winnie is a lengthy poem celebrating the life of Winnie Mandela and published here, in this edition, by Third..... Read More about Winnie. (Signed
![3731409] South of Freedom. (Signed). Carl T. Rowan](/pictures/thumb/3731409_1.jpg?v=1643933079)
Signed. First Edition of the author’s first book. A Tennessee native, Rowan was a respected journalist for the Minneapolis Tribune, a Department of State government..... Read More about South of Freedom. (Signed
![3731250] From Slavery to Freedom, A History of American Negroes. (Signed). John Hope Franklin](/pictures/thumb/3731250_1.jpg?v=1643655907)
Significantly expanded from the first edition, the most important book written by the esteemed historian John Hope Franklin. “[In 1947,] Alfred A. Knopf published his..... Read More about From Slavery to Freedom, A History of American Negroes. (Signed
![3730510] Up from Slavery. With an Introduction by Booker T. Washington III and Illustrations by...](/pictures/thumb/3730510_1.jpg?v=1641608476)
Illustrated edition of Up from Slavery, Black educator and race leader Booker T. Washington’s critically acclaimed autobiography, first published in 1901 and translated into 18..... Read More about Up from Slavery. With an Introduction by Booker T. Washington III and Illustrations by Denver...
![3731229] Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Pioneer of the Color Line. Helen M. Chesnutt](/pictures/thumb/3731229_1.jpg?v=1637457191)
Definitive biography of this important intellectual, often described as America’s first great Black novelist. Chesnutt is known for his important fin de siècle work of..... Read More about Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Pioneer of the Color Line
![3730467] Frederick Douglass Lif och Samtid. [Life and Times of Frederick Douglass]. Frederick...](/pictures/thumb/3730467_1.jpg?v=1633010164)
First Swedish edition of the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. This final edition of the statesman’s life concludes with chapters primarily concerned with his..... Read More about Frederick Douglass Lif och Samtid. [Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
![3731105] Corner Stores in the Middle Of the Block: That Urban Look. (Signed). pseud Blue](/pictures/thumb/3731105_1.jpg?v=1632978418)
Signed by the author, Brad Bathgate, and with a small illustration by him beneath his autograph. With blurbs from The New York Times, New York..... Read More about Corner Stores in the Middle Of the Block: That Urban Look. (Signed
![3730627] From the Back of the Bus. Dick Gregory, 1932–2017](/pictures/thumb/3730627_1.jpg?v=1625760253)
The author’s first book. Comic and satirical musings on various themes—America, Brotherhood Week, Freedom Rides, etc.—from comedian and civil rights activist, Dick Gregory (1932–2017). Gregory’s..... Read More about From the Back of the Bus
![3730625] Black Power, A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos. Richard Wright, 1908–1960](/pictures/thumb/3730625_1.jpg?v=1625760253)
Black novelist Richard Wright’s non-fiction book about his 1953–1954 trip to Africa’s Gold Coast (Ghana). During the 1950s, Wright made extensive foreign travels and it..... Read More about Black Power, A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos
![3730582] [Countee Cullen; Arna Bontemps; Countee Cullen:] Come Rain or Come Shine. Edward Gross...](/pictures/thumb/3730582_1.jpg?v=1624502594)
Sheet music for a song from Act I of the 1946 all-Black musical St. Louis Woman. The musical is based on the novel God Sends..... Read More about Countee Cullen; Arna Bontemps; Countee Cullen:] Come Rain or Come Shine. Edward Gross presents...
![3730339] A Nickel and A Prayer. Jane Edna Hunter](/pictures/thumb/3730339_1.jpg?v=1617841449)
Autobiography of this nurse and lawyer noted for her commitment to help Black American women. A South Carolinian-native born to sharecropper parents, Jane Edna Hunter..... Read More about A Nickel and A Prayer
![3730006] A Century of Fiction by American Negroes 1853-1952. A Descriptive Bibliography....](/pictures/thumb/3730006_1.jpg?v=1611683834)
A very useful bibliography and inscribed by the author. Press of Maurice Jacobs, Philadelphia, 1955. Publisher’s blue cloth. Mild discoloration to boards; Very Good. Inscribed..... Read More about A Century of Fiction by American Negroes 1853-1952. A Descriptive Bibliography. (Signed
![3729960] Writings: The Suppression of the Slave-Trade. The Souls of Black Folk. Dusk of Dawn....](/pictures/thumb/3729960_1.jpg?v=1610651383)
With an Introduction by Nathan Huggins, a collection of standard classics authored by W.E.B. Du Bois. [New York]: The Library of America, (1986). 1334pp. Publisher’s..... Read More about Writings: The Suppression of the Slave-Trade. The Souls of Black Folk. Dusk of Dawn. Essays and...
![3728759] The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with Haiti 1776-1891. [Inscribed Copy]....](/pictures/thumb/3728759_1.jpg?v=1599682811)
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
![3729699] Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1926 and Yearbook of American Poetry (Sesqui-Centennial...](/pictures/thumb/3729699_1.jpg?v=1602712050)
Signed twice, an anthology of poetry edited by William Stanley Braithwaite (1878–1962), African American mixed race poet, literary critic, and some-time professor at Atlanta University..... Read More about Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1926 and Yearbook of American Poetry (Sesqui-Centennial Edition
![3729561] Famous American Negroes. Langston Hughes](/pictures/thumb/3729561_1.jpg?v=1597437283)
First Edition, thus. One of the “Apollo Editions” and a collection of biographical sketches of prominent Black Americans written by this Harlem Renaissance writer, poet..... Read More about Famous American Negroes
![3729451] The Senate and the Versailles Mandate System. Rayford Logan, 1897–1981](/pictures/thumb/3729451_1.jpg?v=1597517359)
An examination of the Versailles Treaty that ended the First World War with a particular focus on the “Armenia Question.” The author, Rayford Whittingham Logan..... Read More about The Senate and the Versailles Mandate System
![3729443] History’s Missing Pages … The Journal of Negro History. [Prospectus; Carter G....](/pictures/thumb/3729443_1.jpg?v=1598301680)
Prospectus for the cloth-bound 54-volume set of the Journal of Negro History, published since 1916 by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and..... Read More about History’s Missing Pages … The Journal of Negro History. [Prospectus; Carter G. Woodson
![3729390] William Lloyd Garrison: The Abolitionist. Archibald Henry Grimké, Grimke](/pictures/thumb/3729390_1.jpg?v=1593895204)
Biography of this famed Massachusetts abolitionist written by Archibald Grimké, civil rights leader, high-level officer in the NAACP, and a noted lawyer. The son of..... Read More about William Lloyd Garrison: The Abolitionist
![3729322] Three-Fifths of a Man. (Signed). Floyd McKissick](/pictures/thumb/3729322_1.jpg?v=1593277362)
First Edition. Inscribed in the year of publication: “To Tom. Best Wishes. Floyd McKissick. June 69.” Floyd Bixler McKissick (1922–1991), Civil Rights activist, lawyer, founder..... Read More about Three-Fifths of a Man. (Signed
![3729175] Men of Maryland. Reverend George F. Bragg Jr](/pictures/thumb/3729175_1.jpg?v=1580932119)
History and biographical sketches of Black 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
