“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 –
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Nine ephemeral items for musical concerts and theme dances in Philadelphia sponsored by Club 13. The club appears to have included many women in active..... Read More about Ephemera Collection for “Club 13,” a Private African-American Social Club in Philadelphia
A rare survival, and rare Alpha Phi Alpha ephemeron; an invitation for the 21st Annual Relay prom. “In addition to just the frivolities, these latter..... Read More about 1941 Invitation Card from Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity to attend the Twenty-First Anniversary Relay...
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Separately issued circular reprinting historian and academic John Hope Franklin’s essay expressing alarm over the “decrease in minorities in the teaching profession…at a time when..... Read More about The Desperate Need for Black Teachers. A Special Appeal from John Hope Franklin. [caption title
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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...
Anti-slavery speech to a Whig convention by Josiah Quincy, Sr., former Federalist congressman, mayor of Boston, and president of Harvard College. Presented by Quincy to..... Read More about Speech delivered by Hon. Josiah Quincy, Senior, before the Whig State Convention, assembled at...
![Let My People Live. [Original 16mm film for 1938 WPA Tuskegee Institute Movie]. Director Edgar...](/pictures/thumb/3730998_1.jpg?v=1634827873)
Original 16mm public health film starring an all-Black cast and directed at young African American audiences to encourage tuberculosis testing and treatment. In this drama..... Read More about Let My People Live. [Original 16mm film for 1938 WPA Tuskegee Institute Movie
The Lecompton Constitution proposed that the state of Kansas protect its slaveholders and extinguish the rights of African Americans from its bill of rights. Here..... Read More about Proceedings of the Union Anti-Lecompton Mass Meeting of the Citizens of Erie County, N.Y. Opposed...
Scarce. Autobiography of Lewis Garnett Jordan (1853–1939) which describes his life of enslavement before the War and just after. Born in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Jordan’s..... Read More about On Two Hemispheres: Bits from the Life Story of Lewis G. Jordan, as Told by Himself
Frederick Douglass’s second of three autobiographies and “what is probably the best eyewitness account of American slavery. In addition to graphic descriptions of slavery and..... Read More about My Bondage and My Freedom: Part I-Life as a Slave. Part II-Life as a Freeman
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Rare 1940 Omega Psi Phi Invitation with printed ticket for a costumed party held during the Second World War at the Mercantile Ballroom and sponsored..... Read More about 1940 Invitation Card from Omega Psi Phi Gay Nineties Ball
“Free Trade, Free Labor, Free Soil, Free Speech and Free Men.” Albany pamphlet issued as a newspaper “Extra” of the Albany Atlas, publishing the anti-slavery..... Read More about Herkimer Convention. The Voice of New York! Proceedings of the Herkimer Mass Convention of Oct....
“Slavery was a social and an economic institution of such power that it sustained and extended an economic system whose demands went far to determine..... Read More about Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia
Biography of abolitionist Thomas Garrett (1789–1871) of Wilmington, Delaware, Underground Railroad Station Master and working colleague of celebrated Underground Railroad Conductor Harriet Tubman (c.1822–1913). Includes..... Read More about Station Master on the Underground Railroad. The Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett
Study of the origin, growth and distribution of Free African Americans and the character of free Black communities by pioneering Black sociologist, E. Franklin Frazier..... Read More about The Free Negro Family, A Study of Family Origins Before the Civil War
Benjamin J. Davis, former city councilman of New York, testifies in the trial of the Communist Twelve at Foley Square. The text includes the direct..... Read More about in defense of NEGRO RIGHTS
Survey of the conditions of Black housing in the United States with discussions of home ownership and with much on segregation. The book comprises a...... Read More about Negro Housing
These nine articles from various scholarly journals were written during John Hope Franklin’s academic tenure at North Carolina Central University (HBCU), Howard University (HBCU), Brooklyn..... Read More about 1945–1980, Nine Reprints by John Hope Franklin, Academic Historian of Black America
Made after an original painting by Black American artist, Jerome W. Jones, Jr. of Richmond, Virginia. “The Fergusons” depicts a casual family gathering in a...... Read More about The Fergusons by Black American Artist Jerome W. Jones, Jr. [inscribed and signed limited edition...
An almost life-size portrait of Carter Godwin Woodson (1875–1950), the “Father of Black History” and founder of what is today the Association for the Study..... Read More about Large Portrait Print of the “Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson, issued by...
This copy bears the dual New York and London imprints, but has “Miller & Company” stamped at the foot of the spine. (Miller & Holman..... Read More about A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on Their Economy
Program for the play Big Blow set in Florida’s hurricane country. The show was produced by the Federal Theatre program under the sponsorship of the..... Read More about Big Blow [Federal Theatre (Works Progress Administration
An important thesis and early history of African Americans in Ohio, specifically: the early years of slavery and the anti-slavery movement, the struggle for equality..... Read More about The Negro in Ohio 1802-1870
Among his final correspondence written from Tuskegee, a boldly-signed letter written by Emmett Jay Scott (1873–1957), journalist, author, envoy and Booker T. Washington’s personal secretary..... Read More about 1916 Signed Letter from Emmett Jay Scott, African American Author and Booker T. Washington...
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Nineteenth-century American family portrait, taken on the porch of a modest home. A husband and wife and their baby in a carriage are to the..... Read More about Vernacular Photograph of a White Family on a Porch with an African American Boy
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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...
