“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 –
Rare broadside advertising this African-American albino quartet, shown performing in a minstrel array, playing the bones, the fiddle, the banjo and the tambourine. The quartet..... Read More about The Four Snow-White Albino Boys. Born of Negro Parents! As they appear in their unrivaled musical...
Autograph Edition of this “collection of authentic stories of Negro life in South Carolina” based upon African-American fables and songs told to this white folklorist..... Read More about Congaree Sketches. Scenes from Negro Life in the Swamps of the Congaree and Tales by Tad and Scip...
Biography and study of the works of artist Robert S. Duncanson (1821–1872), African American landscape painter, part of the second generation of the Hudson Valley..... Read More about Robert S. Duncanson: 19th Century Black Romantic Painter
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Warmly inscribed by the author to James Phinney Baxter III, historian, academic, Pulitzer Prize-winner for history. An exhaustive study of this topic; “This is the..... Read More about The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with Haiti 1776-1891. [Inscribed Copy
Authoritative critique of the Black intelligentsia by a prominent Black academic. The Crisis offers a powerful précis of black politics since 1945, which Cruse saw..... Read More about The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual
Important state-by-state, county-by-county directory of free Black heads of families in 1830 with a 53-page introduction by Carter G. Woodson—“The Father of Black History.” The..... Read More about Free Negro Heads of Families in the United States in 1830 together with a Brief Treatment of the...
Significant biography of Paul Cuffe (1759–1817), Massachusetts freeman, Wealthy shipping entrepreneur, and Pan-Africanist. Cuffe visited Africa “...where he formed the mercantile-oriented Friendly Society of Sierra..... Read More about Rise to Be a People: A Biography of Paul Cuffe
History of the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage founded in Philadelphia in 1775, the first American abolition society. The..... Read More about The First Abolition Society in the United States
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Black American history as imagined by this Detroit, Michigan production outfit and issued, in part, to advertise and market Pepsi-Cola. The ambitious album aimed to..... Read More about Adventures in Negro History. [recording album
First edition of this economic study of Black workers in New York City by sociologist and social worker George Edmund Haynes (1880–1960), a co-founder and..... Read More about The Negro at Work in New York City, A Study in Economic progress
Consisting of: 18 offprints and reprints of articles from scholarly journals; 4 pamphlets written by or concerning Franklin; 2 prospectuses for books he wrote; 3..... Read More about 1945–2003, Collection of Offprints, Reprints, Pamphlets by John Hope Franklin, Academic and...
Author’s Master’s Thesis at the University of Virginia, proposed as an exploratory study of the topic. The thesis was published by the university as one..... Read More about The Negro in Charlottesville and Albemarle County
Illustrated program for the 1953–1954 season of the Harlem Globetrotters, an all-Black traveling basketball team known for their athleticism and comedic style of play. Well-illustrated..... Read More about 27th Season Official Souvenir Program, Abe Saperstein’s fabulous Harlem Globetrotters
Uncorrected pages for John Hope Franklin’s book, Racial Equality in America, issued here in in printed paper covers and a plastic comb binding. The uncorrected..... Read More about Racial Equality in America. [uncorrected pages; inscribed and signed by author John Hope Franklin
Collection of five public letters or appeals concerning issues of race. Section headings include “Lynching,” “Education,” “Migration,” “A New Reconstruction,” and “Interracial Cooperation.” With a...... Read More about Five Letters of the University Commission on Southern Race Questions
Capsule histories of Black public schools in Delaware with numerous photographic illustrations of Black schoolhouses and “Colored Schools” throughout the state. This copy inscribed by..... Read More about African American Education in Delaware, A History through Photographs, 1865-1940. [inscribed and...
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Important and innovative study on Reconstruction in the South following the American Civil War by a noted African American academic and writer. Franklin’s “work on..... Read More about Reconstruction After the Civil War. [inscribed by the author
An important history of Black Americans in Maryland; well-regarded and widely-cited by subsequent scholarship. New York: Columbia University, 1921. First edition. 362 pages + back..... Read More about The Free Negro in Maryland, 1634-1860 (Studies in History, Economics and Public Law
First edition and scarce, thus. An account of the Christiana Riot, an incident of African American-led armed resistance which took place in 1851 in Lancaster..... Read More about The Christiana Riot and The Treason Trials of 1851, An Historical Sketch
Here, published in its entirely, Hensel’s account of the Christiana Riot, an incident of African American-led armed resistance which took place in 1851 in Lancaster..... Read More about The Christiana Riot and The Treason Trials of 1851, An Historical Sketch. [within Papers Read...
Souvenir booklet from the 59th Anniversary Meeting of The Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (ASALH), held in Philadelphia in 1974. The..... Read More about Souvenir Journal. 59th Anniversary Meeting of The Association for the Study of Afro-American Life...
At the time of this book’s publication, the publisher’s noted: “This is the only biography ever published singly of the young Negro who struggled against..... Read More about Paul Laurence Dunbar. Poet of His People
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Striking interpretation of the story of Toussaint L’Ouverture as written for children and profusely illustrated in color by Black American artist Jacob Lawrence. The artist..... Read More about Toussaint L’ouverture: Fight For Haiti’s Freedom. [first edition
Third Edition of the author’s most important book published in 1947, the same year he joined the faculty of Howard University. “That year Alfred A...... Read More about From Slavery to Freedom, A History of American Negroes. [Third edition, inscribed and signed by...
Fifth Edition of the author’s most important book published in 1947, the same year he joined the faculty of Howard University. “That year Alfred A...... Read More about From Slavery to Freedom, A History of American Negroes. [Fifth edition, inscribed and signed by...
