“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 –
Biography of Radical Republican journalist and diplomat James Shepherd Pike (1811–1882) of Maine. Pike was the author of The Prostrate State: South Carolina under Negro..... Read More about James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882
Biography of Radical Republican journalist and diplomat James Shepherd Pike (1811–1882) of Maine. Pike was the author of The Prostrate State: South Carolina under Negro..... Read More about James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882
Publicity card for the Black women’s vocal trio of Victoria Wallace, Valerie Holiday, and Helen Scott who performed as The Three Degrees. The card, which..... Read More about The Three Degrees. [caption title of publicity card for an African American women’s vocal trio
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Limited edition autographed baseball print autographed by five Negro League Baseball players all of whom played for the New York Cubans. The New York Cubans..... Read More about Negro League Legends. [limited edition print autographed by 5 New York Cubans players
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Unrecorded 1940 Republican U.S. Presidential campaign handbill or small broadside enlisting the Black vote issued in the aftermath of a “shocking ” and, as suggested..... Read More about Negro Policeman Kicked by Roosevelt’s Secretary. [caption title
Memorial supporting the rights of slaveholders by 220 citizens of Washington, D.C. who “...do not desire the enactment of any law for the extinction of..... Read More about Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the District of Columbia, adverse To any legislation on the...
Memorial of Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and Civilization of Africa here joining with the national American Colonization Society to promote..... Read More about Memorial of The Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and Civilization of...
Publicity photograph, with condition issues, of the hip-hop duo Da-Lite and Kool Keem who performed as Better Knowledge. From the contact telephone numbers, the duo..... Read More about Publicity Photograph for Hip-Hop Artists Da-Lite and Kool Keem performing as Better Knowledge,...
Autograph Note Signed by militant abolitionist, politician, and social activist Gerrit Smith (1797–1874) and addressed to a “Mr. [or] Wm. Brice.” that reads, in part..... Read More about 1858 Autograph Note Signed by Abolitionist Gerrit Smith of New York Mourning the Death of His...
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...
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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 Autographed by Tad and Scip:] Congaree Sketches. Scenes from Negro Life in the Swamps of the...
![The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with Haiti 1776-1891. [Inscribed Copy]. Rayford W....](/pictures/thumb/3728759_1.jpg?v=1599682811)
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...
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...
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
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...
