“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 –
![White Over Black. American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812. [First Edition]. Winthrop D. Jordan](/pictures/thumb/3729583_1.jpg?v=1597517365)
Lovely copy of this important work examining how Colonial Englishmen created chattel slavery and were, in turn, confronted by it. “Jordan’s assertion in White Over..... Read More about White Over Black. American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812. [First Edition
An unusual subject: the Free Black—not slave—in South Carolina pre-American Civil War. The author discusses how Free Blacks were allowed to remain free due to..... Read More about A World in Shadow. The Free Black in Antebellum South Carolina
![Allies for Freedom. Blacks and John Brown. [Inscribed Copy]. Benjamin Quarles](/pictures/thumb/3729579_1.jpg?v=1597769232)
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
Stanton treats the subject of scientific racism in 19th-century America as scientists held forth the idea that separate races were actually distinct species. How this..... Read More about The Leopard’s Spots. Scientific Attitudes toward Race in America, 1815-59
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
![James T. Rapier and Reconstruction. [inscribed by John Hope Franklin]. Loren Schweninger](/pictures/thumb/3729566_1.jpg?v=1597437284)
A full rich biographical treatment of the life of Black Reconstruction leader James T. Rapier of Alabama and a “fascinating view of the upper strata..... Read More about James T. Rapier and Reconstruction. [inscribed by John Hope Franklin
![The Freedmen’s Bureau in South Carolina 1865-1872. [Inscribed and Signed]. Martin Abbott](/pictures/thumb/3729565_1.jpg?v=1597437284)
An authoritative treatise of the Freedmen’s Bureau’s activities in South Carolina. Warmly Inscribed and Signed by the author to historian Bell Irvin Wiley. Wiley, in..... Read More about The Freedmen’s Bureau in South Carolina 1865-1872. [Inscribed and Signed
![Booker T. Washington and the Negro’s Place in American Life. [Inscribed and Signed by Author]....](/pictures/thumb/3729564_1.jpg?v=1597437283)
A profile of this distinguished Black American educator, orator, author and activist. Spencer writes of Booker T. Washington, the establishment of the Tuskegee Institute in..... Read More about Booker T. Washington and the Negro’s Place in American Life. [Inscribed and Signed by Author
“Many African Americans had fought for America’s liberty and their own in the Revolution, but their place in the new nation was unresolved. As slavery..... Read More about In Hope of Liberty. Culture, Community, and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860
First Edition, thus. One of the “Apollo Editions” and a collection of biographical sketches of prominent Black Americans written by this Harlem Renaissance writer, poet..... Read More about Famous American Negroes
Digest of civil rights laws in all 50 States and the District of Columbia. Entries for each state are arranged topically under these headings: voting..... Read More about Where the States Stand on Civil Rights
Biography of Black newspaper editor, civil rights activist, bank president and politician, John Mitchell, Jr. (1863–1929) of Richmond, Virginia, best known for his anti-lynching crusade..... Read More about Race Man, The Rise and Fall of the “Fighting Editor,” John Mitchell, Jr
A history of African Americans in the South during the Civil Way by noted Civil War military and social historian, Bell I. Wiley (1906–1980), professor..... Read More about Southern Negroes, 1861-1865
Authoritative and well-documented study of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and its role in the modern civil rights movement. In the 1960s, CORE led..... Read More about CORE, A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968
An examination of the wartime role of the Black press on the home front and in the armed services during the Second World War. Section..... Read More about Forum for Protest, The Black Press During World War II
Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough (1852–1926), the former slave who became the president of Wilberforce University (HBCU) and the first Black member of the Modern..... Read More about The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough, An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship
A study of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA). Under the direction of its founder, Marcus Garvey (1887–1940), the UNIA..... Read More about Black Redemption, Churchmen Speak for the Garvey Movement
![From Valley Forge to Freedom, A story of a Black Patriot. [signed]. E. Merrill Beach, Edward...](/pictures/thumb/3729551_1.jpg?v=1597437282)
Biography of American Black Revolutionary War Patriot and enslaved man, Nero Hawley (1742–1817) of Connecticut. Hawley served for four years in the Continental Army in..... Read More about From Valley Forge to Freedom, A story of a Black Patriot. [signed
