Simple Speaks His Mind. (Inscribed)
First edition of this first collection of the “Simple” short stories written about the everyday lives of Harlemites. Given by Hughes, in the year of..... Read More about Simple Speaks His Mind. (Inscribed
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
– Frederick Douglass –
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
– Frederick Douglass –
First edition of this first collection of the “Simple” short stories written about the everyday lives of Harlemites. Given by Hughes, in the year of..... Read More about Simple Speaks His Mind. (Inscribed
Inscribed: “To Mr. W.H. Middlebrook. In the spirit in which he met us. Laurence C. Jones, Founder + Principal of the Piney Woods School, Piney..... Read More about Piney Woods and Its Story. (Signed and with ephemera
“This study concentrates on the gradual decline of the Negro’s status in the post-Reconstruction era. The author describes blacks’ fight for equity in the political..... Read More about The Negro in Texas, 1874-1900
An examination of the wartime role of the Black press on the home front and in the armed services during the Second World War. Section..... Read More about Forum for Protest, The Black Press During World War II
First edition (first printing). Contemporary study of the initial efforts to integrate Black Americans into the United States’ Armed Forces. After the Second World War..... Read More about Breakthrough on Color Front
1935 Yearbook for Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), the first degree-granting Black college (HBCU) in the United States. This copy owned by Lincoln University chemistry professor and..... Read More about The Lion, A Record of Achievements Published by The Class of 1935 [Phi Lamda Mu] Lincoln University
This original photograph shows a class of Lincoln University class graduates with long-time college president, Rev. Isaac Norton Rendall (1825–1912), the group seated in front..... Read More about Ca. 1900s Lincoln University graduation class photograph: America’s first historically...
1895 Class Day program of music and oratory from Lincoln University, an historically Black university in Pennsylvania founded in 1854. The day’s activities included morning..... Read More about Class Day ’95. Lincoln University
Illustrated 1909 graduation program from Lincoln University, the United States’ first degree-granting historically Black university. The program contains the full morning, afternoon, and evening exercises..... Read More about Lincoln University] L.U. Class of 1909 requests your presence at their Class Day Exercises…
The biography of this historian and scholar who ranks amongst such luminaries as Carter G. Woodson (“The Father of Black History”), Charles H. Wesley, John..... Read More about Recorder of the Black Experience. A Biography of Monroe Nathan Work
First edition of this rich biographical treatment of the life of Black Reconstruction leader James T. Rapier of Alabama, and a “fascinating view of the..... Read More about James T. Rapier and Reconstruction. (Inscribed & signed by John Hope Franklin
Contents include, “...The Color Line in Washington Industries; Changes in Employment of Negro Workers; Negro Government Employees; Gains and Losses in Industry Summarized…” Washington, D.C...... Read More about The Employment of Negroes in the District of Columbia
First nine volumes of the collected speeches and outgoing and incoming letters of Booker T. Washington (1856?–1915), educator, orator, civic leader, and author of the..... Read More about The Booker T. Washington Papers [9 volumes (of 14
Story, mission, progress, and multiple descriptions and viewpoints of life at Virginia’s Hampton Institute for African Americans and Native Americans; this title published almost a...... Read More about Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers. Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen Ludlow. With...
Unrecorded World War II military directive issued to employees of the Philadelphia Transportation Company on strike in protest against Black employees taking on non-menial jobs..... Read More about Labor Strikes against Black Americans] Notice to all employees of Philadelphia Transportation...
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
The author discusses how Free Blacks in South Carolina pre-American Civil War were allowed to remain free due to their tremendous economic output and presents..... Read More about A World in Shadow. The Free Black in Antebellum South Carolina
First edition. An authoritative treatise of the Freedmen’s Bureau’s activities in South Carolina. From the preface, “...I have raised some points about what might have..... Read More about The Freedmen’s Bureau in South Carolina 1865-1872
First edition. “In this careful study, Fletcher examines years in which the military blacks found themselves affected by the growing institution of prejudice and separation..... Read More about The Black Soldier and Officer In The United States Army, 1891-1917
First edition and very rare to commerce. Matlack’s History of American Slavery and Methodism is crucial for its copious knowledge, especially to understanding the secession..... Read More about The History of American Slavery and Methodism, from 1780 to 1849; and History of the Wesleyan...
A very useful bibliography; this copy inscribed by the author. Philadelphia: Press of Maurice Jacobs, 1955. Publisher’s blue cloth. Mild discoloration to boards; very good..... Read More about A Century of Fiction by American Negroes 1853-1952. A Descriptive Bibliography. (Signed
During February’s Black History Month in 1984, the celebrated poet Maya Angelou gave a free talk, open to the public, at West Chester University, Chester..... Read More about West Chester University Presents a Visit with Maya Angelou Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird...
Profusely-illustrated souvenir program for this jazzed-up adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado. A visual spectacle, the musical featured an African-American cast and starred the..... Read More about Michael Todd’s Hot Mikado with Bill Robinson, staged by Hassard Short. Hall of Music, New York...
OCLC returns six physical copies of this dissertation which explores the years of Du Bois’s editorship of the Crisis; the evils of segregation, discrimination and..... Read More about The Crisis Years of W.E.B. Du Bois, 1910-1934
Proceedings and anti-slavery resolutions adopted by the 1848 Ohio Free Territory Convention of the newly formed “Free Soil” Party. The party met in Columbus to..... Read More about Free Soil Party] Addresses and Proceedings of the State Independent Free Territory Convention of...