“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 –
![An Appeal to the Methodists of Missouri by a Missouri Methodist. [Slavery in Missouri]. “By...](/pictures/thumb/3730451_1.jpg?v=1630610177)
An 1850 call for unity in the Methodist church in Missouri over the issue of slavery in the wake of the 1844 separation of the..... Read More about An Appeal to the Methodists of Missouri by a Missouri Methodist. [Slavery in Missouri
![The Negro in Our History. [1928, Fifth Edition]. Carter Godwin Woodson](/pictures/thumb/3730813_1.jpg?v=1628131410)
Important textbook for generations of African Americans which went through numerous, well-illustrated editions. Carter G. Woodson is considered the “Father of Black History” and the..... Read More about The Negro in Our History. [1928, Fifth Edition
Published for the first time, the autobiography of this remarkable man enslaved from birth on a Louisiana plantation. Lynch rose to become Speaker of the..... Read More about Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch
Enslaved from birth, the biography of Timothy Thomas Fortune who ascended to become the “dean of Negro journalists in America. The program and methods proposed..... Read More about T. Thomas Fortune: Militant Journalist
Widely-known as a prominent landscape architect, and the designer of New York’s Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted also wrote three books on his impressions of..... Read More about A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on Their Economy
The author’s first book. Comic and satirical musings on various themes—America, Brotherhood Week, Freedom Rides, etc.—from Black comedian and civil rights activist, Dick Gregory (1932–2017)..... Read More about From the Back of the Bus
Black novelist Richard Wright’s non-fiction book about his 1953–1954 trip to Africa’s Gold Coast (Ghana). During the 1950s, Wright made extensive foreign travels and it..... Read More about Black Power, A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos
![Guitarist and Singer Bo Diddley Jr. Publicity Agent’s Broadside]. S. Curt A. Barad, P Management](/pictures/thumb/3730621_1.jpg?v=1625105119)
Publicity and concert booking promotional sheet for Bo Diddley Jr., “master blues and R&B guitarist and singer.” Born David Hill Jr., Diddley was given his..... Read More about Guitarist and Singer Bo Diddley Jr. Publicity Agent’s Broadside
Report from a special interracial commission exploring why industrial Minnesota denies employment to Black workers and how this might impact the post-World War II state..... Read More about The Negro Worker in Minnesota. A Report to Governor Edward J. Thye of Minnesota by The...
This pamphlet highlights profiles of Black scientists and inventors involved in energy technology development. Scientists are illustrated with a short biography and include: Elijah McCoy;..... Read More about Black Contributors to Science and Energy Technology
Illustrated edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic antebellum novel of Southern plantation slave life, first published in 1852. This fine press edition..... Read More about Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly. With an Introduction by Raymond Weaver....
Sheet music with lyrics and guitar chords for the 2001 single “Uh-Huh” by the Black boy band B2K (Boys of the new Millennium). The song..... Read More about uh-huh. Recorded by B2K on Epic Records
![Countee Cullen; Arna Bontemps; Countee Cullen:] Come Rain or Come Shine. Edward Gross presents...](/pictures/thumb/3730582_1.jpg?v=1624502594)
Sheet music for a song from Act I of the 1946 all-Black musical St. Louis Woman. The musical is based on the novel God Sends..... Read More about Countee Cullen; Arna Bontemps; Countee Cullen:] Come Rain or Come Shine. Edward Gross presents...
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
Biography of educator, orator, U.S. presidential advisor, and race leader, Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), the founder of the Tuskegee Institute (HBCU) in Alabama. The biography..... Read More about Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization
![Anti-Slavery Sermons:] The Times, and Signs of the Times. Baccalaureate Sermon, to the Graduating...](/pictures/thumb/3730551_1.jpg?v=1624502579)
Scarce anti-slavery sermon directed to the senior class of 1862 and given by John W. Scott, president of this small Presbyterian college located near Pittsburgh..... Read More about Anti-Slavery Sermons:] The Times, and Signs of the Times. Baccalaureate Sermon, to the Graduating...
![Map of Colony of Liberia on the West Coat of Africa within:] Address of the Managers of the...](/pictures/thumb/3730545_1.jpg?v=1624502577)
Printed on the title-page’s verso is the map “Colony of Liberia on the West Coat of Africa” with an inset plan of the town of..... Read More about Map of Colony of Liberia on the West Coat of Africa within:] Address of the Managers of the...
Scarce and important text on the fight to prevent the spread of slavery in western States and especially Missouri. Rufus King (1755-1827) was a Federalist..... Read More about The Substance of Two Speeches, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, on the Subject of...
![Twenty-Two Issues, 1854 – 1873:] The Gospel-Visiter [sic] a Monthly Publication Devoted to the...](/pictures/thumb/3730565_1.jpg?v=1623949511)
Printed in English, The Gospel Visitor aka The Gospel-Visiter —and also identified here as The Monthly Gospel Visiter— was the first paper published for the..... Read More about Twenty-Two Issues, 1854 – 1873:] The Gospel-Visiter [sic] a Monthly Publication Devoted to the...
Concerns lengthy communiques concerning accusations and affidavits by various Portuguese slavers that American-flagged vessels—whalers, barques, and so forth—were abducting their enslaved sailors or “cargo.” President..... Read More about Message of the President of the United States, Communicating…Information in Relation to the...
Anti-slavery petition to Congress by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the Mid-Atlantic states seeking the suppression of “...the African slave trade..... Read More about Memorial of The Society of Friends, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, on The African...
First monograph ever of a Black American artist (Anne Monahan, op. cited); a survey of the paintings of self-taught painter Horace Pippin (1888–1946). The well-illustrated..... Read More about Horace Pippin, A Negro Painter in America
![The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. [Dissertation]. Francis Butler Simkins, 1897–1966](/pictures/thumb/3730389_1.jpg?v=1619831146)
This is the original dissertation by Simkins, which was later published. A study of white supremacist South Carolina politician and later Democratic governor and U.S...... Read More about The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. [Dissertation
![First Black Florida Congressman:] Papers in the Case of Jesse J. Finley vs. Josiah T. Walls....](/pictures/thumb/3730381_1.jpg?v=1619699175)
Josiah T. Walls (1842–1905) was the first African American Congressman from Florida, and the only one, until Corrine Brown’s victory in 1992. This lengthy text..... Read More about First Black Florida Congressman:] Papers in the Case of Jesse J. Finley vs. Josiah T. Walls....
Collection of five speeches by politicians, lawyers, and a clergyman on the controversial proposal to “repatriate” Black Americans to Africa, delivered at a meeting of..... Read More about Addresses delivered at the sixth anniversary meeting of the Maryland State Colonization Society,...
