“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 –
![3730621] [Guitarist and Singer Bo Diddley Jr. Publicity Agent’s Broadside]. S. Curt A. Barad, P...](/pictures/thumb/3730621_1.jpg?v=1625105119)
Publicity and concert booking promotional sheet for Bo Diddley Jr., “master blues and R&B guitarist and singer.” Born David Hill Jr., Diddley was given his..... Read More about Guitarist and Singer Bo Diddley Jr. Publicity Agent’s Broadside
![3730614] The Negro Worker in Minnesota. A Report to Governor Edward J. Thye of Minnesota by The...](/pictures/thumb/3730614_1.jpg?v=1624502598)
Report from a special interracial commission exploring why industrial Minnesota denies employment to Black workers and how this might impact the post-World War II state..... Read More about The Negro Worker in Minnesota. A Report to Governor Edward J. Thye of Minnesota by The...
![3730612] Black Contributors to Science and Energy Technology. U S. Department of Energy](/pictures/thumb/3730612_1.jpg?v=1624502598)
This pamphlet highlights profiles of Black scientists and inventors involved in energy technology development. Scientists are illustrated with a short biography and include: Elijah McCoy;..... Read More about Black Contributors to Science and Energy Technology
![3730582] [Countee Cullen; Arna Bontemps; Countee Cullen:] Come Rain or Come Shine. Edward Gross...](/pictures/thumb/3730582_1.jpg?v=1624502594)
Sheet music for a song from Act I of the 1946 all-Black musical St. Louis Woman. The musical is based on the novel God Sends..... Read More about Countee Cullen; Arna Bontemps; Countee Cullen:] Come Rain or Come Shine. Edward Gross presents...
![3730576] The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual. Harold Cruse, 1916–2005](/pictures/thumb/3730576_1.jpg?v=1624502590)
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
![3730574] Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization. Emmett J. Scott, Lyman Beecher Stowe](/pictures/thumb/3730574_1.jpg?v=1624502588)
Biography of educator, orator, U.S. presidential advisor, and race leader, Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), the founder of the Tuskegee Institute (HBCU) in Alabama. The biography..... Read More about Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization
![3730551] [Anti-Slavery Sermons:] The Times, and Signs of the Times. Baccalaureate Sermon, to the...](/pictures/thumb/3730551_1.jpg?v=1624502579)
Scarce anti-slavery sermon directed to the senior class of 1862 and given by John W. Scott, president of this small Presbyterian college located near Pittsburgh..... Read More about Anti-Slavery Sermons:] The Times, and Signs of the Times. Baccalaureate Sermon, to the Graduating...
![3730495] Message of the President of the United States, Communicating…Information in Relation...](/pictures/thumb/3730495_1.jpg?v=1620788697)
Concerns lengthy communiques concerning accusations and affidavits by various Portuguese slavers that American-flagged vessels—whalers, barques, and so forth—were abducting their enslaved sailors or “cargo.” President..... Read More about Message of the President of the United States, Communicating…Information in Relation to the...
![3730450] Memorial of The Society of Friends, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, on The...](/pictures/thumb/3730450_1.jpg?v=1620792374)
Anti-slavery petition to Congress by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the Mid-Atlantic states seeking the suppression of “...the African slave trade..... Read More about Memorial of The Society of Friends, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, on The African...
![3730400] Horace Pippin, A Negro Painter in America. Selden Rodman](/pictures/thumb/3730400_1.jpg?v=1622757853)
First monograph ever of a Black American artist (Anne Monahan, op. cited); a survey of the paintings of self-taught painter Horace Pippin (1888–1946). The well-illustrated..... Read More about Horace Pippin, A Negro Painter in America
![3730389] The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. [Dissertation]. Francis Butler Simkins,...](/pictures/thumb/3730389_1.jpg?v=1619831146)
This is the original dissertation by Simkins, which was later published. A study of white supremacist South Carolina politician and later Democratic governor and U.S...... Read More about The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. [Dissertation
![3730381] [First Black Florida Congressman:] Papers in the Case of Jesse J. Finley vs. Josiah T....](/pictures/thumb/3730381_1.jpg?v=1619699175)
Josiah T. Walls (1842–1905) was the first African American Congressman from Florida, and the only one, until Corrine Brown’s victory in 1992. This lengthy text..... Read More about First Black Florida Congressman:] Papers in the Case of Jesse J. Finley vs. Josiah T. Walls....
![3730319] Addresses delivered at the sixth anniversary meeting of the Maryland State Colonization...](/pictures/thumb/3730319_1.jpg?v=1620792373)
Collection of five speeches by politicians, lawyers, and a clergyman on the controversial proposal to “repatriate” Black Americans to Africa, delivered at a meeting of..... Read More about Addresses delivered at the sixth anniversary meeting of the Maryland State Colonization Society,...
![3730092] Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the American Colonization Society…January 20th, 1852. To...](/pictures/thumb/3730092_1.jpg?v=1620090291)
Founded in 1816, the American Colonization Society promoted the migration of free Black Americans to Africa. The society’s Thirty-Fifth Annual Report publishes remarks by its..... Read More about Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the American Colonization Society…January 20th, 1852. To which is...
![3730339] A Nickel and A Prayer. Jane Edna Hunter](/pictures/thumb/3730339_1.jpg?v=1617841449)
Autobiography of this nurse and lawyer noted for her commitment to help Black American women. A South Carolinian-native born to sharecropper parents, Jane Edna Hunter..... Read More about A Nickel and A Prayer
![3730231] No Compromise of Human Rights. No admission in the Constitution of Inequality of Rights,...](/pictures/thumb/3730231_1.jpg?v=1620792373)
Second of two important 1866 speeches given by abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, a leading advocate for civil rights for Black Americans. Sumner attacks..... Read More about No Compromise of Human Rights. No admission in the Constitution of Inequality of Rights, or...
![3730069] “The Higher Law,” in its Application to the Fugitive Slave Bill. A Sermon on the...](/pictures/thumb/3730069_1.jpg?v=1620792372)
Sermon in support of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 by Rev. John C. Lord, leading conservative Presbyterian theologian, delivered at the Central Presbyterian Church..... Read More about “The Higher Law,” in its Application to the Fugitive Slave Bill. A Sermon on the Duties Men...
![3730122] Correspondence, between the Hon. F.H. Elmore, one of the South Carolina delegation in...](/pictures/thumb/3730122_1.jpg?v=1612811283)
Number 8 from the Anti-Slavery Examiner. Kentucky reformer, Princeton graduate, and anti-slavery proponent, James Gillespie Birney (1792–1857), here responds to questions from South Carolina’s F.H...... Read More about Correspondence, between the Hon. F.H. Elmore, one of the South Carolina delegation in Congress,...
![3730009] The Angelo Herndon Case and Southern Justice. Charles H. Martin](/pictures/thumb/3730009_1.jpg?v=1611683835)
Surprisingly scarce study of Angelo Herndon (1913–1997), Black labor organizer and Communist Party activist. Herndon was convicted and imprisoned in Georgia in 1933 for attempting..... Read More about The Angelo Herndon Case and Southern Justice
![3730006] A Century of Fiction by American Negroes 1853-1952. A Descriptive Bibliography....](/pictures/thumb/3730006_1.jpg?v=1611683834)
A very useful bibliography and inscribed by the author. Press of Maurice Jacobs, Philadelphia, 1955. Publisher’s blue cloth. Mild discoloration to boards; Very Good. Inscribed..... Read More about A Century of Fiction by American Negroes 1853-1952. A Descriptive Bibliography. (Signed
![3729980] Slavery in Kentucky 1792-1865. Ivan E. McDougle](/pictures/thumb/3729980_1.jpg?v=1611683832)
“This study is an attempt to give a connected and concise account of the institution of slavery as it existed in the State of Kentucky..... Read More about Slavery in Kentucky 1792-1865
![3729979] Lincoln and the Negro. (Signed). Benjamin Quarles, 1904–1996](/pictures/thumb/3729979_1.jpg?v=1611683832)
First edition and nicely inscribed by the author, a prominent historian, on the title page. “Lincoln became Lincoln because of the Negro, and it was..... Read More about Lincoln and the Negro. (Signed
![3729960] Writings: The Suppression of the Slave-Trade. The Souls of Black Folk. Dusk of Dawn....](/pictures/thumb/3729960_1.jpg?v=1610651383)
With an Introduction by Nathan Huggins, a collection of standard classics authored by W.E.B. Du Bois. [New York]: The Library of America, (1986). 1334pp. Publisher’s..... Read More about Writings: The Suppression of the Slave-Trade. The Souls of Black Folk. Dusk of Dawn. Essays and...
![3729852] Fifty Years of Howard University. [Dwight Oliver Wendell Holmes]. Dwight O. W. Holmes](/pictures/thumb/3729852_1.jpg?v=1604510048)
Separately Issued reprint containing Holmes’s observations of his tenure at Howard University, in two parts and here collected together. Holmes, a native of West Virginia..... Read More about Fifty Years of Howard University. [Dwight Oliver Wendell Holmes
![3729839] James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882. Robert Franklin...](/pictures/thumb/3729839_1.jpg?v=1605647027)
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
