South of Freedom. (Signed)
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
“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 –
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
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...
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
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
First edition (first printing). Contemporary study of the initial efforts to integrate Black Americans into the United States’ Armed Forces. After the Second World War..... Read More about Breakthrough on Color Front
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
First edition and inscribed by Franklin on the half-title. Autobiography of this important historian and civil rights activist. Franklin was “the first black historian to..... Read More about Mirror to America. The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. (Signed
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
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...
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
Inscribed by John Hope Franklin, the noted historian of Black American history, who wrote the Foreword. “This landmark work reveals the complex and vital role..... Read More about Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life. (Signed by John Hope Franklin
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
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...
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...
“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....
“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
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
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
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
Unrecorded World War II military directive issued to employees of the Philadelphia Transportation Company on strike in protest against Black employees taking on non-menial jobs..... Read More about Labor Strikes against Black Americans] Notice to all employees of Philadelphia Transportation...
“On the foundation of our history, we can continue to build a lasting temple of self-respect and self-esteem, as other population groups have done” (p21) ..... Read More about Civil Rights Activism:] Creating and Maintaining an Historical Tradition
An examination and documentary study of the landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld racial segregation in public facilities as long..... Read More about The Thin Disguise: Turning Point in Negro History, Plessy v. Ferguson, a Documentary Presentation...
Signed by the author, Brad Bathgate, and with a small illustration by him beneath his autograph. With blurbs from The New York Times, New York..... Read More about Corner Stores in the Middle Of the Block: That Urban Look. (Signed
A survey of travel accounts in the antebellum North written by Southern writers. These accounts are compiled here from contemporary letters, diaries, newspaper articles, and..... Read More about A Southern Odyssey, Travelers in the Antebellum North. [inscribed and signed by the author