“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 –
![Rev. C. C. Dunlap, D. D. [African Methodist Episcopal Church pastor]. Rev. C. C. Dunlap](/pictures/thumb/3729238_1.jpg?v=1586277011)
Rev. C.C. Dunlap was born in 1860 in Clinton, South Carolina. He attended Allen University in Columbia for six years and eventually served in Abbeville..... Read More about Rev. C. C. Dunlap, D. D. [African Methodist Episcopal Church pastor
An unusual self-published work, inscribed and signed by the author, intersecting the culture, music, and life of African Americans with the world of Jungian psychology..... Read More about Slave Religion, Spirituals, and C.G. Jung
![The Negro and the White Man. [Association Copy]. Wesley John Gaines](/pictures/thumb/3729231_1.jpg?v=1602783050)
Association Copy of the author’s second book; this copy belonging to Levi Jenkins Coppin (1848–1924), missionary and educator, with his signature and dated by him..... Read More about The Negro and the White Man. [Association Copy
In this boxing rematch, Georgian-native Sugar Ray Robinson defeated England’s Randy Turpin a.k.a. “The Leamington Licker” on September 12, 1951 at the Polo Grounds in..... Read More about The Supreme Fight Sensation of All Time! Sugar Ray Robinson vs Randolph Turpin… [opening lines...
![Signed by Rosa Parks et al.:] West Chester School District Committee for Black History Month /...](/pictures/thumb/3729227_1.jpg?v=1590438464)
Entirely hand-lettered promotional poster for a Black History Month school program celebrating civil rights, signed by leading African American activists, Rosa L. Parks, Fred D...... Read More about Signed by Rosa Parks et al.:] West Chester School District Committee for Black History Month /...
![Leslie Pinckney Hill:] Cheyney-Dunbar Recital. Chester High School Auditorium ... 1928 ......](/pictures/thumb/3727448_1.jpg?v=1586277004)
Program for an evening’s entertainment of song, spoken word, and a theatrical performance given jointly by students of Cheyney Normal School, an historically Black college..... Read More about Leslie Pinckney Hill:] Cheyney-Dunbar Recital. Chester High School Auditorium ... 1928 ......
Early printing of this African-American author’s first book of poetry. Color was published shortly after Countee Cullen was accepted into Harvard’s masters program. Cullen was..... Read More about Color
Small archive documenting two separate vaudeville theatrical acts, blackface minstrels Howard and Fields and the “singing and talk” act, Kaufman and Kaufman. Howard and Fields..... Read More about Vaudeville Archive of Blackface Minstrels Howard and Fields and Singing and Talk Act, Kaufman and...
First edition, in publisher’s original polished cloth, a collection of anti-slavery lectures by Boston abolitionist Amos A. Phelps. This copy with an inscription on the..... Read More about Lectures on Slavery and Its Remedy. [American Anti-Slavery Society stencil mark plus Pennsylvania...
![Paying the Southern War Claims [caption title]. Anon](/pictures/thumb/3729194.jpg?v=1580949172)
This rare, anonymous broadside is an attack in 1876 upon Governor Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, by excerpting from Southern newspapers from..... Read More about Paying the Southern War Claims [caption title
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
![Master of Falconhurst. [First Edition]. Kyle Onstott](/pictures/thumb/3729169.jpg?v=1592931528)
Published after Mandingo and Drum, the continuing story of the plantation, Falconhurst, and the ruthless themes of slave-breeding and slavery in the antebellum South as..... Read More about Master of Falconhurst. [First Edition
Brief biographies of African Americans from West Chester, Pennsylvania or who had a personal connection to it, among the latter Drs. Carter G. Woodson and..... Read More about Lives of Some Negroes Who Made Their Contributions to the History of West Chester, Pennsylvania
American abolitionist, orator, and statesman Frederick Douglass died on February 20, 1895 in his home in Washington, D.C. Two days later, a Black student..... Read More about Contemporary 1895 Account of the Death of “Our Friend” Frederick Douglass by an African...
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
![Brownsville Affair] The Black Battalion. Debate in the United States Senate…1906. Senator...](/pictures/thumb/3729116_1.jpg?v=1578529837)
Rare pamphlet transcription of debate proceedings in the U.S. Senate on the “Dismissal of Three Companies of Twenty-Fifth Infantry”—African American troops or “Buffalo Soldiers”—in the..... Read More about Brownsville Affair] The Black Battalion. Debate in the United States Senate…1906
Pre-Second World War survey of Black Roman Catholics in the United States. Includes some history of Black Catholics before and after emancipation, plus chapters on..... Read More about Colored Catholics in the United States. An investigation of Catholic activity in behalf of the...
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
The fourth volume in writer, poet, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou’s autobiography, chronicling events taking place between 1957 and 1962 including her work for..... Read More about The Heart of a Woman
![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
