“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 –
Anthology of Black History on such topics as “Africa and the Beginnings,” “Slavery Takes Root in the Americas,” “The Negro Response,” “The Struggle for Freedom..... Read More about Black History, a Reappraisal. [inscribed and signed by John Hope Franklin and Benjamin Quarles,...
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Inscribed and signed by the author on the half-title. A study of the thread of violence that runs through the history of the American South..... Read More about The Militant South. [inscribed and signed by the author
Biography of Robert Russa Moton (1867–1940) who worked at Hampton Institute and then became the long-time Tuskegee Institute principal and successor to Booker T. Washington..... Read More about Robert Russa Moton of Hampton and Tuskegee
Important biography of this Black historian and scholar who ranks amongst such luminaries as Carter G. Woodson (“The Father of Black History”), Charles H. Wesley..... Read More about Recorder of the Black Experience. A Biography of Monroe Nathan Work
Written by a Black American, an extensive treatment of the history of male African Americans playing baseball, football, running and so forth, whether in All-Black..... Read More about Black College Sport
The story of the thousands of free Blacks who lived in the south before the American Civil War and of their struggle to expand their..... Read More about Slaves Without Masters. The Free Negro in the Antebellum South
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Inscribed and signed by the lauded Black historian Benjamin Quarles who contributes an essay within. This book is a combination of documentary evidence and scholarly..... Read More about John Brown. Great Loves Observed. [inscribed
Inscribed an signed by the author, a professor at Morehouse College in Atlanta, to a Black bibliophile at the 68th meeting of the ASALH in..... Read More about In the Cage. Eyewitness Accounts of the Freed Negro in Southern Society, 1877-1929. [inscribed copy
Presentation Copy from Fletcher M. Green (1895–1978) who edited, wrote the introduction and provided notes for this important memoir first published in 1887, “The classic..... Read More about Memorials of a Southern Planter
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Inscribed and signed by the eminent historian of Black American history John Hope Franklin who writes the essay “Jim Crow Goes to School: The Genesis..... Read More about The Negro in the South Since 1865. Selected Essays in American Negro History. [inscribed
The author argues that “enslaved Africans were not at all passive objects but [were] rather active and vital subjects of their own history. ...blacks were..... Read More about The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography ... From Sundown to Sunup, The Making of the Black...
Twelve essays by on African American history by Black historian and long-time professor of history at Morgan State University (HBCU) in Baltimore. Chapter titles include..... Read More about Black Mosaic, Essays in Afro-American History and Historiography. [inscribed and signed
Inscribed and signed by John Hope Franklin and Benjamin Quarles, both Black Americans and distinguished authors and historians of African American history. Both Franklin and..... Read More about The Segregation Era 1863-1954. A Modern Reader. [inscribed by John Hope Franklin and Benjamin...
Inscribed and signed by Benjamin Quarles, editor and a prolific and prominent Black American historian. With a 7-page introduction and single-page commentary by Quarles at..... Read More about Blacks on John Brown
Focused examination of the era of Reconstruction in North Carolina on the Lower Cape Fear River. Among the benefits of the the book is the..... Read More about Ballots and Fence Rails. Reconstruction on the Lower Cape Fear
The author discusses how Free Blacks in South Carolina pre-American Civil War were allowed to remain free due to their tremendous economic output and presents..... Read More about A World in Shadow. The Free Black in Antebellum South Carolina
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This distinguished Black American historian discusses an unusual subject matter: How did African Americans in 19th-century America view the abolitionist John Brown? Inscribed and signed..... Read More about Allies for Freedom. Blacks and John Brown. [Inscribed Copy
This study examines the realities that the Free North held a substantial population who opposed the abolition of slavery, describing the history of this phenomenon..... Read More about Powder Keg. Northern Opposition to the Antislavery Movement 1831-1840
Biography of Black abolitionist, journalist, physician, and soldier, Martin R. Delany, a close collaborator of Frederick Douglass and a proponent of African colonization, the authors..... Read More about The Making of an Afro-American, Martin Robison Delany, 1812-1885
High school textbook of African American history arranged in topically discrete sections and with study questions and chapter reviews. “The story of American Negroes is..... Read More about The American Negro, Old World Background and New World Experience
The history of persons of African descent in France with some discussion of slavery and of immigrants from French colonies, where they were denied full..... Read More about The Negro in France
Engaging study of the educator, orator, U.S. presidential advisor, and race leader, Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), the founder of the Tuskegee Institute (HBCU) in Alabama..... Read More about Booker T. Washington. Great Lives Observed
Biography of clergyman, newspaper editor, and abolitionist Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1802–1837) who was murdered by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois when they tried to..... Read More about Tide Without Turning: Elijah P. Lovejoy and Freedom of the Press
Dissertation discussing the tremendous cultural respond of the television phenomenon and adaptation of Roots by Alex Haley written in 1976. Roots: The Saga of an..... Read More about In Search of Meanings: Roots, Media and the Public Response
The authors document how Black soldiers in World War I were the victims of discriminatory draft, training, assignment, and leadership policies and were recruited despite..... Read More about The Unknown Soldiers, Black American Troops in World War I
