“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 –
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 Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and Wilberforce University of Ohio. The gridiron match was played..... 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
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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
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
![Freedom Road. [Inscribed by the Author; W.E.B. Du Bois Foreword]. Howard Fast, 1914–2003,...](/pictures/thumb/3728935_1.jpg?v=1571682576)
“[A] sympathetic account of freed slaves during the period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War.” (ANB) Inscribed by the author. First published in 1944..... Read More about Freedom Road. [Inscribed by the Author; W.E.B. Du Bois Foreword
Important account of Reconstruction in Mississippi written by an African American participant there at the time, John R. Lynch, former U.S. Congressman, 1873–1877 and 1882–1883..... Read More about Facts of Reconstruction
![The Booker T. Washington Papers [9 volumes (of 14)]. Louis R. Harlan, Raymond W. Smock,...](/pictures/thumb/3728833_1.jpg?v=1572374121)
First nine volumes of the collected speeches and outgoing and incoming letters of Booker T. Washington (1856?–1915), educator, orator, African American civic leader, and author..... Read More about The Booker T. Washington Papers [9 volumes (of 14
Immediate post-World War II survey of the plight Blacks in Africa, the West Indies, Latin America, and the United States by Howard University professor, author..... Read More about The Negro and the Post-War World, A Primer
![The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. [Inscribed Copy]. Francis Butler Simkins,...](/pictures/thumb/3728813_1.jpg?v=1561563387)
Study of white supremacist South Carolina politician and later Democratic governor and U.S. Senator, Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918), and the popular movement he championed. This copy..... Read More about The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. [Inscribed Copy
Study of African American college educational opportunities and student preparatory requirements, signed by its author, J. Irving E. Scott, Ph.D., the Dean of Alcorn A.&M..... Read More about Negro Students & Their Colleges
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“Du Bois accepted an appointment as chair of the sociology department at Atlanta University, where he had already been teaching as a visiting professor during..... Read More about Dusk of Dawn. An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept. [Romare Bearden, Illustrator
“Stand by the Law!” One of four rare broadsides issued in 1863. This broadside is a dramatic plea for Democratic laboring men to support the..... Read More about To the Laboring Men of New York
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...
A chronological and heavily-illustrated overview of the role of Black Americans in America’s military since the American Revolution all the way up the Afghanistan. “This..... Read More about Soldiers of Freedom. An Illustrated History of African Americans in the Armed Forces
War-time patriotic book offering insight into African Americans serving in the United States military. Chapters address military history and traditions of Blacks, “some important consideration..... Read More about The Negro in the Armed Forces
This noted American historian writes of the Civil War from the perspective of African Americans; how they “felt, and how they played an important role..... Read More about The Negro’s Civil War. How Americans Felt and Acted During the War for the Union. [Inscribed...
Examination of the “problems of Negro labor and its relation to white labor, North and South, under the impact of the New Deal.” Cayton and..... Read More about Black Workers and the New Unions
A history of slavery in the state of Maryland from 1634 to 1888. From the Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Extra..... Read More about The Negro in Maryland. A Study of the Institution of Slavery
This multifaceted study was to accomplish the following objectives: “To help the institutions now caring for delinquent, dependent, neglected and defective Negro children to understand..... Read More about Negro Child Welfare in North Carolina. A Rosenwald Study
An elegant monograph on early South Carolina photographer, Richard Samuel Roberts (1880-1935), showing almost 200 of his works. Roberts ran a photo studio in Columbia..... Read More about A True Likeness. The Black South of Richard Samuel Roberts, 1920-1936
New York City street photographer, Jill Freedman lived in the protest encampment, “Resurrection City” at Washington, D.C. for six weeks, documenting The Poor Peoples Campaign..... Read More about Old News: Resurrection City
A celebration of the achievements of the African American actor on the American theatre stage, pre-1890 to 1945. Illustrated with wonderful photographs. New York: Theatre..... Read More about The Negro in the American Theatre
A review of African-American intellectual thought on social reform after the end of the Civil War. Leaders such as Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar..... Read More about The Resurgence Of Race. Black Social Theory From Reconstruction To The Pan-African Conferences
