“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..... Read More about Truth Stranger than Fiction. Father Henson’s Story of His own Life. With an Introduction by...
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...
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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... Read More about Rosa Parks: My Story. [Signed by Rosa Parks
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
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First edition, an excellent copy. In The Brown Madonna and Other Poems, Underhill, who was blind, writes autobiographically with the surprisingly uplifting poem “Poor Black..... Read More about The Brown Madonna and Other Poems. [Presentation Copy
“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
Du Bois’s classic work in which his prophecy is presented: that the problem of the 20th century is that of the color line. Blockson 101..... Read More about The Souls of Black Folk
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,...
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
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 about The Colored Cadet at West Point An Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S. A, First...
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
![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
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Twenty-seven portraits of idealized black Americans, one a self portrait of Cooper himself. Each portrait is displayed full-page in black-and-white, reproduced from the original artwork... Read More about A Portrayal of Negro Life. [With Publisher’s Illustrated Prospectus
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“Lincoln became Lincoln because of the Negro, and it was the latter who first reflected the image of the Lincoln that was to live.” (Author’s..... Read More about Lincoln and the Negro. [Inscribed by Author
![The Emancipation Proclamation. [Inscribed by Author]. John Hope Franklin, 1915–2009](/pictures/thumb/3728026_1.jpg?v=1546963424)
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..... Read More about The Emancipation Proclamation. [Inscribed by Author
![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 New Negro was published in the midst of the First World War, during the Jim Crow era, at a time when many Southern blacks... Read More about The New Negro. His Political, Civil and Mental Status and Related Essays
A collection of African American humor (preachers, religion, war, misc.,), most in dialect, by this African American writer. Additionally, there are stories of humor dedicated... Read More about American Aesop: Negro and Other Humor
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 about The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States 1638-1870
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 about The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States 1638-1870. [First Edition
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First edition of the first book by this African-American writer who grew up on Chicago’s South Side. Made into the movie of the same name..... Read More about Knock on Any Door. [First Edition
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 about Black Boy. A Record of Childhood and Youth
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 about The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States 1638-1870
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 The Negro Common School. Report of a Social Study Made under the Direction of Atlanta University;...
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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
