“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 –
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
![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
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
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
![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
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), formerly enslaved, who became the president of Wilberforce University (HBCU) and the first Black member of the Modern Language..... 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
Anthropological study of Black Americans undertaken at the suggestion and with the guidance of famed American anthropologist Franz Boas (1858–1942). Includes the chapters “The Amalgam..... Read More about The American Negro, a Study in Racial Crossing
![W.E.B. Du Bois:] America’s Race Problems. Addresses at the Annual Meeting of the American...](/pictures/thumb/3729545_1.jpg?v=1605737169)
Notable for including the essay “The Relation of the Negroes to the Whites in the South” by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois, the great Black scholar..... Read More about W.E.B. Du Bois:] America’s Race Problems. Addresses at the Annual Meeting of the American...
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
![Judicial Cases concerning American Slavery and the Negro. [Five Volumes, Complete]. Helen...](/pictures/thumb/3729536_1.jpg?v=1619107433)
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...
