“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 –
A profile by a high school student body of the African-American artist Horace Pippin, local to the students school district in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The..... Read More about Horace Pippin. The Artist and His Work
![The Diary of James T. Ayers Civil War Recruiter. [Inscribed by the Author]. John Hope Franklin,...](/pictures/thumb/3729191.jpg?v=1592939174)
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
Walter White’s account of African-Americans fighting for America during the Second World War. A very handsome copy. Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1945. First edition; so..... Read More about A Rising Wind
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
Proceedings of a conference on race held by The Negro Christian Student Conference with representatives from over 85 HBCUs from 17 states and the District..... Read More about The New Voice in Race Adjustments. Addresses and Reports presented at The Negro Christian Student...
History of missionary outreach to Native Americans and African Americans by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in colonial New..... Read More about Anglican Humanitarianism in Colonial New York
From the library of J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, American historian. An examination of President Abraham Lincoln’s familial, marital, and sympathetic ties to the American..... Read More about Lincoln and the South
Includes much information on the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts and missionary work, plus a chapter on “The Charleston Negro..... Read More about An Appraisal of the Negro In Colonial South Carolina
![Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) Class Graduation Photograph]. Lincoln University, Pennsylvania,...](/pictures/thumb/3729051_1.jpg?v=1578540548)
Lincoln University photograph showing an unidentified class of graduates with long-time college president, Rev. Isaac Norton Rendall (1825–1912), the group seated in front of Vail..... Read More about Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) Class Graduation Photograph
During February’s Black History Month in 1984, the celebrated African-American poet Maya Angelou gave a free talk, open to the public, at West Chester University..... Read More about West Chester University Presents a Visit with Maya Angelou Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird...
![St. Lukes U.A.M.E. Church, West Chester, Pennsylvania Photograph]. Belt Studio, photographer...](/pictures/thumb/3727459_1.jpg?v=1578529828)
C.1920s photograph taken in front of St. Luke’s Union American Methodist Episcopal (U.A.M.E.) Church in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The photograph, taken by long-time West Chester..... Read More about St. Lukes U.A.M.E. Church, West Chester, Pennsylvania Photograph
![The Confessions of Nat Turner. [Signed by the Author]. William Styron](/pictures/thumb/3729100_1.jpg?v=1610572103)
Styron’s Pulitzer Prize-winning treatment of the story of the Virginia insurrection led by Nat Turner, the massacre that ensued, his capture and subsequent trial and..... Read More about The Confessions of Nat Turner. [Signed by the Author
“In a cogent analysis of the lives of George Washington, George Mason, James Madison, and of course Thomas Jefferson, he explores how class, education, and..... Read More about Jefferson’s Pillow, The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism. [Inscribed and...
“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
Certificate or “Award of Merit” presented by Philadelphia’s Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons to that city’s Tuscan Morning Star Lodge, an African American..... Read More about Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons Award of Merit to Tuscan Morning Star Lodge F. &...
Study of Virginia’s retreat from rising anti-slavery and abolitionist sentiments of the late 18th and early 19th centuries to a defense of slavery in the..... Read More about Slavery Agitation in Virginia, 1829-1832
Abridged edition of the editors’ almost 2,100-page reference work of the same title, a work inspired by a dream of African American scholar, W.E.B. Du..... Read More about Africana. The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. The Concise Desk...
Scarce in dust jacket. Tenth edition of the Negro Year Book. A comprehensive statistical reference on African Americans and their accomplishments, the yearbook was edited..... Read More about Negro Year Book. A Review of Events Affecting Negro Life, 1941-1946
![HBCU Football] Souvenir Program Sat., Nov. 16, 1946 ... Lincoln University vs. Wilberforce...](/pictures/thumb/3729009_1.jpg?v=1574292616)
Just post-war and scarce, a football program for a game between two HBCUs, Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and Wilberforce University of Ohio. The gridiron match..... Read More about HBCU Football] Souvenir Program Sat., Nov. 16, 1946 ... Lincoln University vs. Wilberforce...
![Jazz Poster:] Upper Darby High School ... The Count Basie Orchestra. Count Basie, Upper Darby...](/images/noimage-req.png)
Advertising poster for an appearance of the Count Basie Orchestra, likely from 1985, less than a year after the death of the legendary jazz pianist..... Read More about Jazz Poster:] Upper Darby High School ... The Count Basie Orchestra
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
![New Negro Poets. [Edited by Langston Hughes; Signed by Helen Morgan Brooks]. LeRoi Jones Julian Bond](/pictures/thumb/3728976_1.jpg?v=1572982490)
Anthology of poetry by over thirty African American writers, primarily men. This copy is inscribed by contributor Helen Morgan Brooks who offers two poems within..... Read More about New Negro Poets. [Edited by Langston Hughes; Signed by Helen Morgan Brooks
An account of the Christiana Riot, an incident of African American-led armed resistance which took place in 1851 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, just over the..... Read More about The Christiana Riot and The Treason Trials of 1851, An Historical Sketch
Italian-American Achille Onofri, was an acrobat and contortionist who had met trapeze artist Millie Cook in Havana, married her, and then moved to Philadelphia with..... Read More about 1886 American Prison Art by an Italian-American Circus Performer Incarcerated for Murder,...
A psychological and sociological study of African Americans living in St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The text discusses slavery, the “psychological environment” of..... Read More about St. Thomas Negroes — A Study of Personality and Culture. [Psychological Monographs, Vol. 55, No. 5
