“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 –
Subtitle: “King of the Twelve-String Guitar Players of the World, Long-Time Convict in the Penitentiaries of Texas and Louisiana.” The oral autobiography of Huddie Ledbetter..... Read More about Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly
Unrecorded and unknown photograph of this young African American preacher. Washington preached as early as eight years old as “Little J.L.” and garnered the attention..... Read More about L.L. Washington Boy Preacher
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Study of African-American psychology and religion and their influence on the slave songs or “spirituals” of the South by this noted Black historiographer, academic, and..... Read More about African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation Copy
Broadside advertising regular performances of African American “Plantation Spirituals” at South Carolina’s Cypress Gardens and sung “...entirely by local colored people connected with Dean Hall..... Read More about Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of South...
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Rev. C.C. Dunlap was born in 1860 in Clinton, South Carolina. He attended Allen University in Columbia for six years and eventually served in Abbeville..... Read More about Rev. C. C. Dunlap, D. D. [African Methodist Episcopal Church pastor
An unusual self-published work, inscribed and signed by the author, intersecting the culture, music, and life of African Americans with the world of Jungian psychology..... Read More about Slave Religion, Spirituals, and C.G. Jung
A Georgia native, Walker Smith Jr. (1921 –1989) a.k.a. Sugar Ray Robinson is regarded by some authorities as the greatest boxer of all time. Outside..... Read More about The Supreme Fight Sensation of All Time! Sugar Ray Robinson vs Randolph Turpin… [opening lines...
![Signed by Rosa Parks et al.:] West Chester School District Committee for Black History Month /...](/pictures/thumb/3729227_1.jpg?v=1637535914)
Entirely hand-lettered promotional poster for a Black History Month school program celebrating civil rights, signed by leading American activists, Rosa L. Parks, Fred D. Gray..... Read More about Signed by Rosa Parks et al.:] West Chester School District Committee for Black History Month /...
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Program for an evening’s entertainment of song, spoken word, and a theatrical performance given jointly by students of Cheyney Normal School, an historically Black college..... Read More about Leslie Pinckney Hill:] Cheyney-Dunbar Recital. Chester High School Auditorium ... 1928 ......
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This rare, anonymous broadside is an attack in 1876 upon Governor Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, by excerpting from Southern newspapers from..... Read More about Paying the Southern War Claims [caption title
Walter White’s account of African-Americans fighting for America during the Second World War. A very handsome copy. Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1945. First edition; so..... Read More about A Rising Wind
History and biographical sketches of Black Americans in Maryland, from slavery times till the time of this book’s publication. Notable names, such as Frederick Douglass..... Read More about Men of Maryland
History of missionary outreach to Native Americans and African Americans by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in colonial New..... Read More about Anglican Humanitarianism in Colonial New York
Includes much information on the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts and missionary work, plus a chapter on “The Charleston Negro..... Read More about An Appraisal of the Negro In Colonial South Carolina
![Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) Class Graduation Photograph]. Lincoln University, Pennsylvania,...](/pictures/thumb/3729051_1.jpg?v=1578540548)
Lincoln University photograph showing an unidentified class of graduates with long-time college president, Rev. Isaac Norton Rendall (1825–1912), the group seated in front of Vail..... Read More about Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) Class Graduation Photograph
During February’s Black History Month in 1984, the celebrated poet Maya Angelou gave a free talk, open to the public, at West Chester University, Chester..... Read More about West Chester University Presents a Visit with Maya Angelou Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird...
![St. Lukes U.A.M.E. Church, West Chester, Pennsylvania Photograph]. Belt Studio, photographer...](/pictures/thumb/3727459_1.jpg?v=1578529828)
C.1920s photograph taken in front of St. Luke’s Union American Methodist Episcopal (U.A.M.E.) Church in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The photograph, taken by long-time West Chester..... Read More about St. Lukes U.A.M.E. Church, West Chester, Pennsylvania Photograph
“In a cogent analysis of the lives of George Washington, George Mason, James Madison, and of course Thomas Jefferson, he explores how class, education, and..... Read More about Jefferson’s Pillow, The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism. [Inscribed and...
Study of white supremacist South Carolina politician and later Democratic governor and U.S. Senator, Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918), and the popular movement he championed. In order..... Read More about The Tillman Movement in South Carolina
Certificate or “Award of Merit” presented by Philadelphia’s Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons to that city’s Tuscan Morning Star Lodge, an African American..... Read More about Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons Award of Merit to Tuscan Morning Star Lodge F. &...
Study of Virginia’s retreat from rising anti-slavery and abolitionist sentiments of the late 18th and early 19th centuries to a defense of slavery in the..... Read More about Slavery Agitation in Virginia, 1829-1832
Abridged edition of the editors’ almost 2,100-page reference work of the same title, a work inspired by a dream of African American scholar, W.E.B. Du..... Read More about Africana. The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. The Concise Desk...
Scarce in dust jacket. Tenth edition of the Negro Year Book. A comprehensive statistical reference on African Americans and their accomplishments, the yearbook was edited..... Read More about Negro Year Book. A Review of Events Affecting Negro Life, 1941-1946
![HBCU Football] Souvenir Program Sat., Nov. 16, 1946 ... Lincoln University vs. Wilberforce...](/pictures/thumb/3729009_1.jpg?v=1574292616)
Just post-war and scarce, a football program for a game between Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and Wilberforce University of Ohio. The gridiron match was played..... Read More about HBCU Football] Souvenir Program Sat., Nov. 16, 1946 ... Lincoln University vs. Wilberforce...
![Jazz Poster:] Upper Darby High School ... The Count Basie Orchestra. Count Basie, Upper Darby...](/images/noimage-req.png)
Advertising poster for an appearance of the Count Basie Orchestra, likely from 1985, less than a year after the death of the legendary jazz pianist..... Read More about Jazz Poster:] Upper Darby High School ... The Count Basie Orchestra
