![3729239] L.L. Washington Boy Preacher. Photographer Frank Wendt](/pictures/thumb/3729239.jpg?v=1586384988)
L.L. Washington Boy Preacher.
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
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
– Frederick Douglass –
African-American History
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
– Frederick Douglass –
![3727447] African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation...](/pictures/thumb/3727447_1.jpg?v=1586388383)
African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation Copy].
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
![3729250] Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of...](/pictures/thumb/3729250_1.jpg?v=1586277012)
Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of South Carolina broadside].
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...
![3729238] Rev. C. C. Dunlap, D. D. [African Methodist Episcopal Church pastor]. Rev. C. C. Dunlap](/pictures/thumb/3729238_1.jpg?v=1586277011)
Rev. C. C. Dunlap, D. D. [African Methodist Episcopal Church pastor]
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
![3729229] The Supreme Fight Sensation of All Time! Sugar Ray Robinson vs Randolph Turpin…...](/pictures/thumb/3729229_1.jpg?v=1586277009)
The Supreme Fight Sensation of All Time! Sugar Ray Robinson vs Randolph Turpin… [opening lines of poster]
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...
![3729194] Paying the Southern War Claims [caption title]. Anon](/pictures/thumb/3729194.jpg?v=1580949172)
Paying the Southern War Claims [caption title].
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
![3729175] Men of Maryland. Reverend George F. Bragg Jr](/pictures/thumb/3729175_1.jpg?v=1580932119)
Men of Maryland.
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
![3729136] Anglican Humanitarianism in Colonial New York. Frank J. Klingberg](/pictures/thumb/3729136_1.jpg?v=1595541382)
Anglican Humanitarianism in Colonial New York.
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
![3729111] An Appraisal of the Negro In Colonial South Carolina. Frank J. Klingberg](/pictures/thumb/3729111.jpg?v=1593636996)
An Appraisal of the Negro In Colonial South Carolina.
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
![3729051] [Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) Class Graduation Photograph]. Lincoln University,...](/pictures/thumb/3729051_1.jpg?v=1578540548)
[Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) Class Graduation Photograph].
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
![3727462] West Chester University Presents a Visit with Maya Angelou Author of I Know Why the...](/pictures/thumb/3727462_1.jpg?v=1578529828)
West Chester University Presents a Visit with Maya Angelou Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. February 20, 1984….
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...
![3727459] [St. Lukes U.A.M.E. Church, West Chester, Pennsylvania Photograph]. Belt Studio,...](/pictures/thumb/3727459_1.jpg?v=1578529828)
[St. Lukes U.A.M.E. Church, West Chester, Pennsylvania Photograph].
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
![3729065] Jefferson’s Pillow, The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism....](/pictures/thumb/3729065.jpg?v=1592939174)
Jefferson’s Pillow, The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]
“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...
![3729062] The Jefferson Scandals, A Rebuttal. Virginius Dabney](/pictures/thumb/3729062.jpg?v=1592939173)
The Jefferson Scandals, A Rebuttal.
“In The Jefferson Scandals: A Rebuttal, Virginius Dabney, former editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, winner of the Pulitzer Prize ... presents his inquiry into the..... Read More about The Jefferson Scandals, A Rebuttal
![3729059] Jack Johnson is a Dandy, An Autobiography with Pictures. Jack Johnson](/pictures/thumb/3729059.jpg?v=1592931527)
Jack Johnson is a Dandy, An Autobiography with Pictures.
An autobiography of Jack Johnson, the first African American heavyweight champion. “He emerged in 1926, after a twenty-seven year career in the ring, as an..... Read More about Jack Johnson is a Dandy, An Autobiography with Pictures
![3729053] Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons Award of Merit to Tuscan Morning Star Lodge F....](/pictures/thumb/3729053_1.jpg?v=1576019298)
Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons Award of Merit to Tuscan Morning Star Lodge F. & A.M. 48… [certificate]
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. &...
![3729047] Slavery Agitation in Virginia, 1829-1832. Theodore M. Whitfield, 1905–?, Theodore...](/pictures/thumb/3729047.jpg?v=1593636995)
Slavery Agitation in Virginia, 1829-1832.
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
![3729043] Africana. The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. The Concise...](/pictures/thumb/3729043.jpg?v=1592931527)
Africana. The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. The Concise Desk Reference.
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...
![3729008] [Jazz Poster:] Upper Darby High School ... The Count Basie Orchestra. Count Basie, Upper...](/pictures/thumb/3729008_1.jpg?v=1643670322)
[Jazz Poster:] Upper Darby High School ... The Count Basie Orchestra ...
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
![3728976] New Negro Poets. [Edited by Langston Hughes; Signed by Helen Morgan Brooks]. LeRoi Jones...](/pictures/thumb/3728976_1.jpg?v=1572982490)
New Negro Poets. [Edited by Langston Hughes; Signed by Helen Morgan Brooks]
First Edition. Anthology of poetry by over thirty African American writers. This copy is inscribed by contributor Helen Morgan Brooks who offers two poems within..... Read More about New Negro Poets. [Edited by Langston Hughes; Signed by Helen Morgan Brooks
![3728968] St. Thomas Negroes — A Study of Personality and Culture. [Psychological Monographs,...](/pictures/thumb/3728968_1.jpg?v=1571682590)
St. Thomas Negroes — A Study of Personality and Culture. [Psychological Monographs, Vol. 55, No. 5]
A psychological and sociological study of African Americans living in St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The text discusses slavery, the “psychological environment” of..... Read More about St. Thomas Negroes — A Study of Personality and Culture. [Psychological Monographs, Vol. 55, No. 5
![3728935] Freedom Road. [Inscribed by the Author; W.E.B. Du Bois Foreword]. Howard Fast,...](/pictures/thumb/3728935_1.jpg?v=1571682576)
Freedom Road. [Inscribed by the Author; W.E.B. Du Bois Foreword]
“[A] sympathetic account of freed slaves during the period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War.” (ANB) Inscribed by the author. First published in 1944..... Read More about Freedom Road. [Inscribed by the Author; W.E.B. Du Bois Foreword
![3728840] Facts of Reconstruction. John R. Lynch, 1847–1939, John Roy Lynch](/pictures/thumb/3728840_1.jpg?v=1571682548)
Facts of Reconstruction.
Important account of Reconstruction in Mississippi written by a participant there at the time, John R. Lynch, former U.S. Congressman, 1873–1877 and 1882–1883. “In 1913..... Read More about Facts of Reconstruction
![3728833] The Booker T. Washington Papers [9 volumes (of 14)]. Louis R. Harlan, Raymond W. Smock,...](/pictures/thumb/3728833_1.jpg?v=1572374121)
The Booker T. Washington Papers [9 volumes (of 14)].
First nine volumes of the collected speeches and outgoing and incoming letters of Booker T. Washington (1856?–1915), educator, orator, civic leader, and author of the..... Read More about The Booker T. Washington Papers [9 volumes (of 14
![3728031] The Negro and the Post-War World, A Primer. Rayford Whittingham Logan, 1897–1982](/pictures/thumb/3728031_1.jpg?v=1654661193)
The Negro and the Post-War World, A Primer.
Immediate post-World War II survey of the plight Blacks in Africa, the West Indies, Latin America, and the United States by Howard University professor, author..... Read More about The Negro and the Post-War World, A Primer