“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 –
First edition of this autobiography of this Alabamian and influential Southern educator and “planter” considered the “Mother of Black Lutheranism in Central Alabama.” Young is..... Read More about Light in the Dark Belt. The Story of Rosa Young as Told by Herself
Early issue of an important political and cultural journal focused on civil rights, published from 1961 to 1985. Freedomways was founded by Louis Burnham, Edward..... Read More about Freedomways, a Quarterly Review of the Negro Freedom Movement. Vol. 2, No. 3
An unusually fine copy of Du Bois’s landmark work in which his prophecy is presented: that the problem of the 20th century is that of..... Read More about The Souls of Black Folk. Essays and Sketches. Printed music within text
First edition of this first collection of the “Simple” short stories written about the everyday lives of Harlemites. Given by Hughes, in the year of..... Read More about Simple Speaks His Mind. (Inscribed
Signed publicity photograph of Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993), showing him holding his iconic trumpet with its bell bent upward. Gillespie is noted for his bebop style..... Read More about Dizzy Gillespie Signed Photograph, Jazz Trumpeter and Composer
First edition. From the collection of Anna and Thomas O. Johnson with their bookplate. Thomas O. Johnson was a Harlem dentist and a friend to..... Read More about The Gift of Black Folk. Negroes in the Making of America. (Presentation Copy?
This 1874 speech in support of the Civil Rights Act was the “defining moment” in the career of Robert Brown Elliott (1842–1884), a two-term Black..... Read More about Civil Rights. Speech of Hon. Robert B. Elliott, of South Carolina, in the House of...
Autobiography of Howard Thurman (1899?–1981), theologian, educator, author, and civil rights mentor. Thurman taught at Howard University and worked behind the scenes with many important..... Read More about With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman
First edition. A handsome copy. A review of the epistolary debate between two Baptist clergymen conducted in 1844–1845 in a Boston newspaper, the Christian Reflector..... Read More about A Review of the “Correspondence” of Messrs. Fuller & Wayland, on the Subject of American...
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African American history for school students written by Carter G. Woodson, “The Father of Black History”. Woodson begins the book with the African Diaspora and..... Read More about The Story of the Negro Retold. [Second Edition
Anthology of essays on the military experiences of African Americans from the days of the Spanish Conquistadors up to 1918. Includes examinations of four all-Black..... Read More about The Black Military Experience in the American West
Published in the centennial year of the ratification of the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the work examines the impact on African Americans of..... Read More about The Fifteenth Amendment and Black America, 1870 - 1970
First edition. An authoritative treatise of the Freedmen’s Bureau’s activities in South Carolina. From the preface, “...I have raised some points about what might have..... Read More about The Freedmen’s Bureau in South Carolina 1865-1872
A member of the Chicago Black Renaissance, Margaret Walker (1915–1998) was the first woman to receive a national writing prize (1942) and her novel Jubilee..... Read More about Prophets for a New Day. (Signed
A member of the Chicago Black Renaissance, Margaret Walker (1915–1998) was the first woman to receive a national writing prize (1942) and her novel Jubilee..... Read More about This is My Century: New and Collected Poems. (Signed
Associated Publishers, Inc. of Washington, D.C., were founded by the “Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson. Beginning by at least the 1930s, the Associated..... Read More about 22 Portraits of Prominent African Americans to Display at Home or School, possibly from the, One...
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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
![Our Country, The United States of America, Our People, Americans All. [cover title]. Edyth H....](/pictures/thumb/3731476_1.jpg?v=1643483526)
1960s Middle and Junior High School social studies unit guide promoting the values of diversity. The guide was prepared for teachers to promote geographical knowledge..... Read More about Our Country, The United States of America, Our People, Americans All. [cover title
A member of the Chicago Black Renaissance, Margaret Walker (1915–1998) was the first woman to receive a national writing prize (1942) and her novel Jubilee..... Read More about How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature. (Signed
First edition of this collection of tales of folklore from the Carolinas. Congaree Sketches is described by the publisher as “A collection of authentic stories..... Read More about Congaree Sketches. Scenes from Negro Life in the Swamps of the Congaree and Tales by Tad and Scip...
“These few letters which Richard Wright wrote to his boyhood friend, Joe C. Brown, reveal something about the author’s hope, achievement, and, finally, his literary..... Read More about Richard Wright: Letters to Joe C. Brown
Signed. First Edition of the author’s first book. A Tennessee native, Rowan was a respected journalist for the Minneapolis Tribune, a Department of State government..... Read More about South of Freedom. (Signed
“This volume is a major source book on race relations in the South from the American Revolution to the outbreak of the Civil War. The..... Read More about Race Relations in Virginia & Miscegenation in the South, 1776-1860
1870 broadsheet issued by the Ohio Colonization Society defending the colonization of African-Americans in Liberia and writing passionately of those “...having been torn from their..... Read More about Ohio Colonization Society. Letter from the Secretary of the Ohio Colonization Society. [Liberia,...
Extensive, statistical study of African American school attendance, using the entire State of Delaware as the sample case. The investigation, which contrasts Black and White..... Read More about Negro School Attendance in Delaware. A Report to the State Board of Education of Delaware. Bureau...
