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Champion Avenue School, Class of 1947. Unkwn

Champion Avenue School, Class of 1947.

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

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Frissell, The Builder. Robert Russa Moton, 1867–1940

Frissell, The Builder.

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

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Map of the United States, Showing the Territory in Possession of the Federal Union, January,...

Map of the United States, Showing the Territory in Possession of the Federal Union, January, 1864.

An unusual 1864 Civil War map distinguishing territory controlled by the Federal Union from that remaining in possession of the Confederacy. Together, areas tinted purple..... Read More about Map of the United States, Showing the Territory in Possession of the Federal Union, January, 1864

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Lincoln and the South. James Garfield Randall, 1881–1953

Lincoln and the South.

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

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Law Administration and Negro-White Relations in Philadelphia. A Study in Race Relations. G....

Law Administration and Negro-White Relations in Philadelphia. A Study in Race Relations.

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

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From Slavery to Freedom, A History of American Negroes. (Signed). John Hope Franklin

From Slavery to Freedom, A History of American Negroes. (Signed)

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

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Mirror to America. The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. (Signed). John Hope Franklin,...

Mirror to America. The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. (Signed)

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

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Children of Bondage. The Personality Development of Negro Youth in the Urban South. Allison W....

Children of Bondage. The Personality Development of Negro Youth in the Urban South.

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

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Up from Slavery. With an Introduction by Booker T. Washington III and Illustrations by Denver...

Up from Slavery. With an Introduction by Booker T. Washington III and Illustrations by Denver Gillen.  [Limited Editions Club; signed by Gillen]

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...

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The North Carolina Chain Gang: A Study of County Convict Road Work. Jessie F. Steiner, Roy M. Brown

The North Carolina Chain Gang: A Study of County Convict Road Work.

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

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Pioneer of the Color Line. Helen M. Chesnutt

Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Pioneer of the Color Line.

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

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Important Events and Dates in Negro History [Lois Mailou Jones, artist]. Carter Godwin Woodson,...

Important Events and Dates in Negro History [Lois Mailou Jones, artist].

Striking broadside calendar of important dates in African American history illustrated by Harlem Renaissance-influenced artist Lois Mailou Jones and with brief notices of events commemorated..... Read More about Important Events and Dates in Negro History [Lois Mailou Jones, artist

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Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life. [Signed by John Hope Franklin]....

Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life. [Signed by John Hope Franklin]

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

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The Desperate Need for Black Teachers. A Special Appeal from John Hope Franklin. [caption title]....

The Desperate Need for Black Teachers. A Special Appeal from John Hope Franklin. [caption title]

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

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Free Soil Party] Addresses and Proceedings of the State Independent Free Territory Convention of...

[Free Soil Party] Addresses and Proceedings of the State Independent Free Territory Convention of the People of Ohio, Held at Columbus, June 20 and 21, 1848. [cover title]

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...

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Speech delivered by Hon. Josiah Quincy, Senior, before the Whig State Convention, assembled at...

Speech delivered by Hon. Josiah Quincy, Senior, before the Whig State Convention, assembled at the Music Hall, Boston, Aug. 16, 1854. [presentation copy]

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...

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Let My People Live. [Original 16mm film for 1938 WPA Tuskegee Institute Movie]. Director Edgar...

Let My People Live. [Original 16mm film for 1938 WPA Tuskegee Institute Movie]

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

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On Two Hemispheres: Bits from the Life Story of Lewis G. Jordan, as Told by Himself. Lewis G....

On Two Hemispheres: Bits from the Life Story of Lewis G. Jordan, as Told by Himself.

Scarce. Autobiography of Lewis Garnett Jordan (1853–1939) which describes his life of enslavement before the War and just after. Born in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Jordan’s..... Read More about On Two Hemispheres: Bits from the Life Story of Lewis G. Jordan, as Told by Himself

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Herkimer Convention. The Voice of New York! Proceedings of the Herkimer Mass Convention of Oct....

Herkimer Convention. The Voice of New York! Proceedings of the Herkimer Mass Convention of Oct. 26, 1847, with the Speeches of the Hon. David Wilmot, of Pa.; C.C. Cambreleng, John Van Buren, and others.

“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....

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Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia. Robert McColley

Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia.

“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

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in defense of NEGRO RIGHTS. Benjamin J. Davis, 1903–1964, Benjamin J. Davis Jr

in defense of NEGRO RIGHTS.

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

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Negro Housing. John M. Gries, James Ford

Negro Housing.

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

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1945–1980, Nine Reprints by John Hope Franklin, Academic Historian of Black America]. John Hope...

[1945–1980, Nine Reprints by John Hope Franklin, Academic Historian of Black America].

These nine articles from various scholarly journals were written during John Hope Franklin’s academic tenure at North Carolina Central University (HBCU), Howard University (HBCU), Brooklyn..... Read More about 1945–1980, Nine Reprints by John Hope Franklin, Academic Historian of Black America

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A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on Their Economy. Frederick Law Olmsted

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on Their Economy.

This copy bears the dual New York and London imprints, but has “Miller & Company” stamped at the foot of the spine. (Miller & Holman..... Read More about A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on Their Economy

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The Negro in Ohio 1802-1870. Charles Thomas Hickok

The Negro in Ohio 1802-1870.

An important thesis and early history of African Americans in Ohio, specifically: the early years of slavery and the anti-slavery movement, the struggle for equality..... Read More about The Negro in Ohio 1802-1870

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