“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 –
Important history of the post-Civil War agency established in 1865 by President Abraham Lincoln to aid Black refugees and those formerly-enslaved. In 1872, Congress failed..... Read More about A History of the Freedmen’s Bureau
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Complete in 5 Volumes. Noted scholar, author, lecturer, and book collector Charles L. Blockson writes: “Laws on slavery and black rights varied from state to..... Read More about Judicial Cases concerning American Slavery and the Negro. [Five Volumes, Complete
Fifth annual Negro Year Book of encyclopedic and statistical reports compiled by African-American sociologist Monroe N. Work (1866–1945). A participant in the Niagara Movement of..... Read More about Negro Year Book. An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1918-1919
African Americas during the American Civil War as enslaved people, as “contraband”; as fugitives seeking freedom within the Union Army lines. Surprisingly scarce, Dumond is..... Read More about America’s Shame and Redemption
The state of Black secondary and higher education in America at the time of the First World War. Includes an examination of the preparation of..... Read More about Negro Education, A Study of the Private and Higher Schools for Colored People in the United...
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Magisterial 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..... Read More about Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901. [and] Booker T. Washington: The...
Published in the centennial year of the ratification of the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the work examines the impact on African Americans of..... Read More about The Fifteenth Amendment and Black America, 1870 - 1970
Young adult biography of John Brown Russwurm (1799–1851), abolitionist newspaper editor and colonizer of Liberia. Russwurm and co-editor Samuel Cornish published the abolitionist newspaper, Freedom’s..... Read More about John Brown Russwurm: The Story of Freedom’s Journal, Freedom’s Journey
First edition of this important full-length treatment of the case of the Amistad, arguably the most significant legal case involving slavery before the Dred Scott..... Read More about Mutiny on the Amistad. The Saga of a Slave Revolt and its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and...
Profusely illustrated, an important exhibition catalog on Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first Black American artist to attain international distinction. Born in Pennsylvania, Tanner is known..... Read More about Henry Ossawa Tanner
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Complete in 5 Volumes. Facsimile edition of the first edition, first published between 1926 to 1937, and almost 3,000 pages. Noted scholar, author, lecturer, and..... Read More about Judicial Cases concerning American Slavery and the Negro. [Five Volumes, Complete
Biographical and anecdotal history of African Americans in Pennsylvania, arranged by geographic region and with numerous illustrations. Written by this scholar, author, lecturer, and noted..... Read More about Pennsylvania’s Black History
Race inequality overview by long-time Tuskegee Institute principal and successor to Booker T. Washington, Robert Russa Moton. From the text: “Meanwhile nothing can contribute more..... Read More about What The Negro Thinks
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1935 Yearbook for Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), the first degree-granting Black college (HBCU) in the United States. This copy owned by Lincoln University chemistry professor and..... Read More about The Lion, A Record of Achievements Published by The Class of 1935 [Phi Lamda Mu] Lincoln University
Monograph on self-taught African American artist Horace Pippin (1888–1946), illustrated with numerous color plates. Includes a chronology of the artist, an exhibition history of his..... Read More about I Tell My Heart, The Art of Horace Pippin
Collection of essays (lectures) by an important social and economic historian of the ante-bellum South. The essays were first published in the Georgia Historical Quarterly..... Read More about The Course of the South to Secession, An Interpretation by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
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Black History Month school program celebrating civil rights and with the event’s guests of honor being leading African American activists, Rosa L. Parks, Fred D...... Read More about Rosa Parks et al.:] West Chester Area School District & Community Presents Past, Present and...
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Anthology of scholarly articles on race and skin color in societies and civilizations around the world including Japan, India, South Africa, Great Britain, Central America..... Read More about Color and Race. [Inscribed by John Hope Franklin
![The Long Road] The History of the Coloured Canadian in Windsor, Ontario, 1867-1967. Charlotte...](/pictures/thumb/3729473_1.jpg?v=1597517359)
History of Windsor, Ontario, Canada from a Black perspective. The book contains some general historical information but functions more as a directory of prominent Black..... Read More about The Long Road] The History of the Coloured Canadian in Windsor, Ontario, 1867-1967
The book documents the slave-hire system with particular focus on the production and use of slave badges and the documentary evidence on the hiring of..... Read More about Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865. [signed by both...
An historico-documentary, biographical, and bibliographical guide to Black history in America. Sections include “Early Negro Petitions and Protests,” “Congressional Medal of Honor Winners,” “Population Census..... Read More about A Layman’s Guide to Negro History. [from the library of Black civil right activist Pauli Murray
Chapter titles include “Who Were the Slave Drivers?,” “The Twentieth-Century Narratives,” and “Black Autobiographies.” Plus a chapter on how various historians have examined the phenomenon..... Read More about The Slave Drivers, Black Agricultural Labor Supervisors in the Antebellum South
An investigation of slavery in the 18th century examined through the life of Job ben Solomon [Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1701–1773)], a literate Muslim slave-owner who..... Read More about The Fortunate Slave, An Illustration of African Slavery in the Early Eighteenth Century
Antholgy of 19th century writings on Black nationalism. Includes the full text of The Ethiopian Manifesto by Robert Alexander Young; Walker’s Appeal by David Walker;..... Read More about The Ideological Origins of Black Nationalism
Anthology of essays on the military experiences of African Americans from the days of the Spansih Conquistadors up to 1918. Includes examinations of four all-Black..... Read More about The Black Military Experience in the American West
