British Antislavery 1833-1870.
The British antislavery movement marked victories with British ending its involvement in the slave trade in 1807 and emancipation in Britain’s sugar colonies in 1833..... Read More about British Antislavery 1833-1870
“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 –
The British antislavery movement marked victories with British ending its involvement in the slave trade in 1807 and emancipation in Britain’s sugar colonies in 1833..... Read More about British Antislavery 1833-1870
First Edition of this massive work, for its time, providing a thorough reviews of all aspects (admissions, faculty, degrees granted, historical and/or general overview etc.)..... Read More about Survey of Negro Colleges and Universities
Facsimile of the 1929 first edition of this massive work, for its time, providing a thorough reviews of all aspects (admissions, faculty, degrees granted, historical..... Read More about Survey of Negro Colleges and Universities
Juvenile biography of Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955), educator, organizer of African American women, and civil rights activist. “This is the challenging and inspired true story..... Read More about Mary McLeod Bethune
A history of the Freedmen’s Bureau and its agents, “at state and local levels of the Reconstruction South.” New York: Fordham University Press, 1999. 363pp..... Read More about The Freedmen’s Bureau and Reconstruction. Reconsiderations
A collection of essays focusing on African American resistance, specifically (from the introduction) “on the nature and extent of the resistance of blacks to slavery..... Read More about American Slavery: The Question of Resistance
An historical narrative of the African slave trade between the early 1500’s to 1859. Dow’s book “describes the warfare between tribes and the taking of..... Read More about Slave Ships and Slaving
1870s broadside issued by the Ohio Colonization Society promoting colonization of African Americans in Liberia. The society was formed in 1827 to encourage Black Ohioans..... Read More about A Two Thousand Fold Agency. [Liberia, Africa Colonization Schemes
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…
Post-war “Annual Women’s Day” program detailing activities at Mt. Hebron A.M.E. Church in Linwood, Pennsylvania. Listed are all of the officers, secular music performed, numerous..... Read More about Annual Women’s Day at Mt. Hebron A.M.E. Church ... Linwood, Pa., Sunday April 4, 1948
First edition of this 1922 work describing Baptist missionaries and their efforts in the South to improve the lives of African Americans through education, religion..... Read More about Race Grit. Adventures on the Border-Land of Liberty
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
Notable for a twenty-six page Introduction by the editor, William M. Tuttle, Jr. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, (1973). First Edition. 186pp. Hardcover; small bump to..... Read More about Great Lives Observed: W.E.B. Du Bois
With a new Preface by Louis Harlan and an Epilogue by the author. The difficult, often contentious, battle fought by W.E.B. Du Bois to seek..... Read More about W.E.B. Du Bois: Propagandist of the Negro Protest
First edition of this first biography of William Wells Brown, “Kentucky-born slave who became a self-educated writer and advocate of abolition, temperance, and international peace.”..... Read More about William Wells Brown: Author & Reformer. (Signed by John Hope Franklin
From the publisher: “Slave-born of an unknown father, Frederick Douglass taught himself, escaped bondage, and emerged as one of the nineteenth century’s most eloquent orators..... Read More about Frederick Douglass
This address exhorts fellow Quakers to righteously oppose slavery; to avoid using products derived from slave labor; to attend to the moral and education uplifting..... Read More about An address to the quarterly, monthly and preparative meetings and the members thereof, composing...
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
A compelling World War II combat photograph depicting African-American troops at the front. The images captures members of a mortar company of the 92nd Infantry..... Read More about “Business is Booming in Italy, Members of a Negro Mortar Company of the 92nd Division Praise...