“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 –
Program of the 1971 annual meeting of The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), held that year at the Shoreham Hotel..... Read More about Program of the Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting of The Association for the Study of Negro Life and...
![Negro History in the Home, School, and Community. A Handbook 1966. [cover title]. Charles H. Wesley](/pictures/thumb/3729344.jpg?v=1593277363)
Anthology of articles on African American history and the celebration of “Negro History Week” (now Black History Month), aimed in part at elementary, secondary, and..... Read More about Negro History in the Home, School, and Community. A Handbook 1966. [cover title
![The Negro in Sports. [Revised Edition]. Edwin Bancroft Henderson](/pictures/thumb/3729343.jpg?v=1593543972)
Survey of African American athletes in the sports of boxing, track and field, football, basketball, baseball, tennis, golf, etc. Includes chapters on “Negro Girls in..... Read More about The Negro in Sports. [Revised Edition
![The History of the Negro Church. [Third Edition]. Carter G. Woodson](/pictures/thumb/3729342.jpg?v=1593543972)
Facsimile reprint of Woodson’s 1921 study of Black churches in America—one of his most scholarly books, revised by him in 1945 and here reprinted with..... Read More about The History of the Negro Church. [Third Edition
Study of Black historiography and bibliography with chapters on “The Why and What of Afro-American Historiography”; “The Philosophy of Black History”; “The Father of Negro..... Read More about The Central Theme of Black History
Study of the publication and distribution through the mails of abolitionist and anti-slavery literature and newspapers. Examines the publications of such abolitionist journalists as Elihu..... Read More about The Controversy over the Distribution of Abolition Literature 1830-1860
A study of Philadelphia’s African American population, police, and the law, occasioned by a 1944 racial conflict involving a strike of workers of the Philadelphia..... Read More about Law Administration and Negro-White Relations in Philadelphia. A Study in Race Relations
Anthology of articles examining the current bibliography and historiography of various topics in Black history: “Colonial Africa”; “The Impact of the Slave Trade on Africa”;..... Read More about Black History
![Eros and Freedom in Southern Life and Thought. [inscribed and signed by author]. Earl E. Thorpe](/pictures/thumb/3729334_1.jpg?v=1593463458)
Includes much on slavery. Chapter titles include “Intimacy and Affection Between the Races in the Old South”; “Southern Democracy and the Triumph of Repression”; “The..... Read More about Eros and Freedom in Southern Life and Thought. [inscribed and signed by author
Observations on American slavery by a British traveler in the South, first published in London in 1857. “[Stirling] gave a critical and sometimes biased picture..... Read More about Letters from the Slave States
The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc. was founded in 1915 by black historian and prolific author Carter G. Woodson, “The..... Read More about Home Study Department of the Extension Division of The Association for the Study of Negro Life...
![Three-Fifths of a Man. [First Edition, Inscribed and Signed]. Floyd McKissick](/pictures/thumb/3729322_1.jpg?v=1593277362)
Inscribed and signed in the year of publication. Floyd Bixler McKissick (1922–1991), Civil Rights activist, lawyer, founder of Soul City, author; born in —and with..... Read More about Three-Fifths of a Man. [First Edition, Inscribed and Signed
![Smoking Flax. [Second Edition: Black Americans, Race, Lynchings]. Hallie Erminie Rives,...](/pictures/thumb/3729176_1.jpg?v=1595876514)
Rare to commerce in all editions and one of the nicest copies we’ve handled to date. Controversial novel in favor of lynching, written by Southern..... Read More about Smoking Flax. [Second Edition: Black Americans, Race, Lynchings
Unrecorded. Voting Rights broadside mobilizing Chicagoans to rally in Jackson, Mississippi with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the “Meredith Mississippi March” in support of..... Read More about We Can’t Wait. Join Meredith Mississippi March. Meet! Mobilize! March! “A Sunday with Martin...
![Important Events and Dates in Negro History [Lois Mailou Jones, artist]. Carter Godwin Woodson,...](/pictures/thumb/3729237_1.jpg?v=1595267484)
Striking broadside calendar of important dates in African American history illustrated by Harlem Renaissance-influenced artist Lois Mailou Jones and with brief notices of events commemorated..... Read More about Important Events and Dates in Negro History [Lois Mailou Jones, artist
This issue carried the identifying characteristics of the magazine; a pointed or inspirational poem by Garvey on the front wrap (in this example in “The..... Read More about The Black Man. A Monthly Magazine of Negro Thought and Opinion
Very scarce first edition of Frazier’s important sociological study, winner of the Anisfield Award (1939) as the most significant contribution to race relations for 1939..... Read More about The Negro Family in the United States
Subtitle: “King of the Twelve-String Guitar Players of the World, Long-Time Convict in the Penitentiaries of Texas and Louisiana.” The oral autobiography of Huddie Ledbetter..... Read More about Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly
Popular ante-bellum minstrel song Uncle Ned, here issued as a post-Civil War penny song sheet. The song-poem comprises three quatrains and a quatrain chorus. Although..... Read More about Uncle Ned. As Sung by de Colored Society in General
Unrecorded and unknown photograph of this young black American preacher. Washington preached as early as eight years old as “Little J.L.” and garnered the attention..... Read More about L.L. Washington Boy Preacher
![African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation Copy]....](/pictures/thumb/3727447_1.jpg?v=1586388383)
Study of African-American psychology and religion and their influence on the slave songs or “spirituals” of the South by this noted black historiographer, academic, and..... Read More about African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation Copy
Rare Final Issue of Marcus Garvey’s The Black Man, begun in 1933, ending with this issue in June, 1939, one year before his death. While..... Read More about The Black Man. A Monthly Magazine of Negro Thought and Opinion
Dr. Olivia Pearl Stokes (1916–2002), was an ordained Baptist minister, author, religious educator, and civil rights activist. She was the first African American woman to..... Read More about Against the Tide. [Inscribed by Olivia P. Stokes, Civil Rights Activist and African-American...
First book by Ralph Bunche, the first African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize by bringing the Israel and Arab states to agreement; a civil..... Read More about A World View of Race
Broadside advertising regular performances of African American “Plantation Spirituals” at South Carolina’s Cypress Gardens and sung “...entirely by local colored people connected with Dean Hall..... Read More about Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of South...
