“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 –
![3731465] Congaree Sketches. Scenes from Negro Life in the Swamps of the Congaree and Tales by Tad...](/pictures/thumb/3731465_1.jpg?v=1654200431)
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...
![3731452] Richard Wright: Letters to Joe C. Brown. Thomas Knipp](/pictures/thumb/3731452_1.jpg?v=1643486729)
“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
![3731409] South of Freedom. (Signed). Carl T. Rowan](/pictures/thumb/3731409_1.jpg?v=1643933079)
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
![3730375] Ohio Colonization Society. Letter from the Secretary of the Ohio Colonization Society....](/pictures/thumb/3730375_1.jpg?v=1643483523)
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,...
![3731403] Negro School Attendance in Delaware. A Report to the State Board of Education of...](/pictures/thumb/3731403_1.jpg?v=1654200431)
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...
![3731402] Champion Avenue School, Class of 1947. Unkwn](/pictures/thumb/3731402_1.jpg?v=1647536713)
Class photograph of then-segregated Champion Avenue Junior High School in Columbus, Ohio. Champion opened in 1909 as an all-Black elementary school. Despite protests from the..... Read More about Champion Avenue School, Class of 1947
![3731399] Frissell, The Builder. Robert Russa Moton, 1867–1940](/pictures/thumb/3731399_1.jpg?v=1647209117)
Separately-issued memorial tribute to Hollis Burke Frissell (1852–1917), second principal and first Black principal of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia (now Hampton University)..... Read More about Frissell, The Builder
![3731382] Lincoln and the South. James Garfield Randall, 1881–1953](/pictures/thumb/3731382_1.jpg?v=1654200431)
From the library of Fletcher Green, Southern Historian. An examination of President Abraham Lincoln’s familial, marital, and sympathetic ties to the American South and Southern..... Read More about Lincoln and the South
![3731259] Law Administration and Negro-White Relations in Philadelphia. A Study in Race Relations....](/pictures/thumb/3731259_1.jpg?v=1641608482)
A study of Philadelphia’s African American population, police, and the law, commissioned after 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
![3731250] From Slavery to Freedom, A History of American Negroes. (Signed). John Hope Franklin](/pictures/thumb/3731250_1.jpg?v=1643655907)
Significantly expanded from the first edition, the most important book written by the esteemed historian John Hope Franklin. “[In 1947,] Alfred A. Knopf published his..... Read More about From Slavery to Freedom, A History of American Negroes. (Signed
![3731221] Mirror to America. The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. (Signed). John Hope...](/pictures/thumb/3731221_1.jpg?v=1641608481)
First edition and inscribed by Franklin on the half-title. Autobiography of academic historian of Black America, civil rights activist and writer, John Hope Franklin. Franklin..... Read More about Mirror to America. The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. (Signed
![3731094] Children of Bondage. The Personality Development of Negro Youth in the Urban South....](/pictures/thumb/3731094_1.jpg?v=1642439158)
Cover title continues: “Special Edition Prepared for Class Use.” A thorough study of the division of social classes of Southern African Americans within a caste..... Read More about Children of Bondage. The Personality Development of Negro Youth in the Urban South
![3730510] Up from Slavery. With an Introduction by Booker T. Washington III and Illustrations by...](/pictures/thumb/3730510_1.jpg?v=1641608476)
Illustrated edition of Up from Slavery, Black educator and race leader Booker T. Washington’s critically acclaimed autobiography, first published in 1901 and translated into 18..... Read More about Up from Slavery. With an Introduction by Booker T. Washington III and Illustrations by Denver...
![3731242] The North Carolina Chain Gang: A Study of County Convict Road Work. Jessie F. Steiner,...](/pictures/thumb/3731242_1.jpg?v=1638590782)
The North Carolina Chain Gang describes, in part, the life of chain gangs on the road, portable prison camps, and methods of organization and discipline..... Read More about The North Carolina Chain Gang: A Study of County Convict Road Work
![3731229] Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Pioneer of the Color Line. Helen M. Chesnutt](/pictures/thumb/3731229_1.jpg?v=1637457191)
Definitive biography of this important intellectual, often described as America’s first great Black novelist. Chesnutt is known for his important fin de siècle work of..... Read More about Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Pioneer of the Color Line
![3731204] Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life. [Signed by John Hope...](/pictures/thumb/3731204_1.jpg?v=1637457188)
Inscribed by John Hope Franklin, the esteemed historian of Black American history, who wrote the Foreword. Alexander Crummell, Frederick Douglass, Anna Cooper, W.E.B. Du Bois..... Read More about Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life. [Signed by John Hope Franklin
![3731146] The Desperate Need for Black Teachers. A Special Appeal from John Hope Franklin....](/pictures/thumb/3731146_1.jpg?v=1634827879)
Separately issued circular reprinting historian and academic John Hope Franklin’s essay expressing alarm over the “decrease in minorities in the teaching profession…at a time when..... Read More about The Desperate Need for Black Teachers. A Special Appeal from John Hope Franklin. [caption title
![3731041] [Free Soil Party] Addresses and Proceedings of the State Independent Free Territory...](/pictures/thumb/3731041_1.jpg?v=1634827875)
Proceedings and anti-slavery resolutions adopted by the 1848 Ohio Free Territory Convention of the newly formed “Free Soil” Party. The party met in Columbus to..... Read More about Free Soil Party] Addresses and Proceedings of the State Independent Free Territory Convention of...
![3731040] Speech delivered by Hon. Josiah Quincy, Senior, before the Whig State Convention,...](/pictures/thumb/3731040_1.jpg?v=1634827874)
Anti-slavery speech to a Whig convention by Josiah Quincy, Sr., former Federalist congressman, mayor of Boston, and president of Harvard College. Presented by Quincy to..... Read More about Speech delivered by Hon. Josiah Quincy, Senior, before the Whig State Convention, assembled at...
![3730998] Let My People Live. [Original 16mm film for 1938 WPA Tuskegee Institute Movie]. Director...](/pictures/thumb/3730998_1.jpg?v=1634827873)
Original 16mm public health film starring an all-Black cast and directed at young African American audiences to encourage tuberculosis testing and treatment. In this drama..... Read More about Let My People Live. [Original 16mm film for 1938 WPA Tuskegee Institute Movie
![3730916] On Two Hemispheres: Bits from the Life Story of Lewis G. Jordan, as Told by Himself....](/pictures/thumb/3730916_1.jpg?v=1634827869)
First Edition. Scarce autobiography of Lewis Garnett Jordan (1853–1939) who describes his life of enslavement before the Civil War and just after. Born in Lauderdale..... Read More about On Two Hemispheres: Bits from the Life Story of Lewis G. Jordan, as Told by Himself
![3731042] Herkimer Convention. The Voice of New York! Proceedings of the Herkimer Mass Convention...](/pictures/thumb/3731042_1.jpg?v=1636671880)
“Free Trade, Free Labor, Free Soil, Free Speech and Free Men.” Albany pamphlet issued as a newspaper “Extra” of the Albany Atlas, publishing the anti-slavery..... Read More about Herkimer Convention. The Voice of New York! Proceedings of the Herkimer Mass Convention of Oct....
![3731154] Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia. Robert McColley](/pictures/thumb/3731154_1.jpg?v=1639955138)
“Slavery was a social and an economic institution of such power that it sustained and extended an economic system whose demands went far to determine..... Read More about Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia
![3731150] in defense of NEGRO RIGHTS. Benjamin J. Davis, 1903–1964, Benjamin J. Davis Jr](/pictures/thumb/3731150_1.jpg?v=1642439158)
Benjamin J. Davis, former city councilman of New York, testifies in the trial of the Communist Twelve at Foley Square. The text includes the direct..... Read More about in defense of NEGRO RIGHTS
![3731147] Negro Housing. John M. Gries, James Ford](/pictures/thumb/3731147_1.jpg?v=1634670363)
Survey of the conditions of Black housing in the United States with discussions of home ownership and with much on segregation. The book comprises a...... Read More about Negro Housing
