![3736066] Dictionary of American Negro Biography. (Inscribed by John Hope Franklin and Benjamin...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3736066.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771461934)
First edition, so stated. A fine association, inscribed by two eminent African American historians, Benjamin Quarles and John Hope Franklin, to a collector in 1985..... Read More about Dictionary of American Negro Biography. (Inscribed by John Hope Franklin and Benjamin Quarles
![3735758] The Treatment of The Negro-American in the Study and Teaching of United States History....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage-req.png?auto=webp)
First separate edition. Essay on the teaching of African American history by the former president of Wilberforce University and the founding president of Central State..... Read More about The Treatment of The Negro-American in the Study and Teaching of United States History
![3733518] “That Harlem Number” [P. 500 in:] Survey Graphic. February, 1925. Ed Paul U. Kellogg](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733518.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757513697)
The Harlem Number Announced in Survey Graphic’s February 1925 Advertisement On page 500 of the February 1925 issue of Survey Graphic, a full-page advertisement announced..... Read More about “That Harlem Number” [P. 500 in:] Survey Graphic. February, 1925
![3733517] “Hampton, Tuskegee and Points North” by Robert R. Moton. [Pp. 15-18 in:] The Survey....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733517.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1736980141)
Robert R. Moton on the Great Migration and the Hampton-Tuskegee Model Published in the April 1, 1925 issue of The Survey Graphic, Robert R. Moton’s..... Read More about “Hampton, Tuskegee and Points North” by Robert R. Moton. [Pp. 15-18 in:] The Survey. Graphic...
![3735278] Black Girls in Paris. (first edition, inscribed copy). Shay Youngblood](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735278.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753205065)
First edition of Shay Youngblood’s second novel, warmly inscribed by the author: “For Susan B—Many thanks for your love of Y’t Books. Peace and blissful..... Read More about Black Girls in Paris. (first edition, inscribed copy
![3733772] Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Written by Himself....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733772.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1745250138)
Second Boston printing of Frederick Douglass’s first autobiography, documenting his early life on Edward Lloyd’s plantation in Maryland, his pivotal battle with Edward Covey, the..... Read More about Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Written by Himself
![3734416] History’s Missing Pages … The Journal of Negro History. [1969 publisher’s...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734416.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1731967088)
This is the prospectus for the cloth-bound 54-volume set of the Journal of Negro History, published since 1916 by the Association for the Study of..... Read More about History’s Missing Pages … The Journal of Negro History. [1969 publisher’s prospectus
![3733256] Original publisher’s dust jacket artwork for The Story of the Negro Retold by Carter...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733256.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1719850926)
The first edition of The Story of the Negro Retold traced the African Diaspora and delved into topics such as American slavery, the American Revolution..... Read More about Original publisher’s dust jacket artwork for The Story of the Negro Retold by Carter G....
![3734279] The American Negro. Old World Background and New World Experience. Rayford W. Logan,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734279.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1720307723)
An excellent copy. This edition is a part of the “Houghton Mifflin History Program” series. Co-author Rayford W. Logan, an African-American historian and advocate of..... Read More about The American Negro. Old World Background and New World Experience
![3734193] Seeking to be a Christian in Race Relations. Benjamin E. Mays](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734193.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1720307723)
A Baptist minister and civil rights leader and activist, Mays served for almost three decades as president of Georgia’s Morehouse College. Dr. Martin Luther King..... Read More about Seeking to be a Christian in Race Relations
![3734129] Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch. (Inscribed and...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734129.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1716405308)
First edition. Inscribed and signed by John Hope Franklin, the series editor and 20th-Century dean of African American historians. Published for the first time, the..... Read More about Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch. (Inscribed and Signed by...
![3732909] Publisher’s original dust jacket artwork for Benjamin Quarles’s Frederick Douglass...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732909.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1711984573)
This is the original dust jacket artwork for the first definitive study of Frederick Douglass’s life, published by the Associated Publishers, the most important Black..... Read More about Publisher’s original dust jacket artwork for Benjamin Quarles’s Frederick Douglass (1948),...
![3733901] Up from Slavery. With an Introduction by Booker T. Washington III and Illustrations by...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733901.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1708024881)
Illustrated edition of Up from Slavery, Black educator and race leader Booker T. Washingtons critically acclaimed autobiography, first published in 1901 and translated into 18..... Read More about Up from Slavery. With an Introduction by Booker T. Washington III and Illustrations by Denver...
![3730667] Light in the Dark Belt. The Story of Rosa Young as Told by Herself. Rosa Young](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730667.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1647915933)
First edition of this autobiography of this Alabamian and influential Southern educator and “planter” considered the “Mother of Black Lutheranism in Central Alabama.” Young is..... Read More about Light in the Dark Belt. The Story of Rosa Young as Told by Herself
![3731680] Simple Speaks His Mind. (Inscribed). Langston Hughes](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731680.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1647547448)
First edition of this first collection of the “Simple” short stories written about the everyday lives of Harlemites. Given by Hughes, in the year of..... Read More about Simple Speaks His Mind. (Inscribed
![3731649] The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas. Stories by Reginald McKnight. Reginald McKnight](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731649.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1654200192)
First edition, first printing. McKnight won the O. Henry Award and the Kenyon Review New Fiction Prize for “The Kind of Light That Shines on..... Read More about The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas. Stories by Reginald McKnight
![3731467] How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature. (Signed). Margaret Walker,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731467.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1658978365)
A member of the Chicago Black Renaissance, Margaret Walker (1915–1998) was the first woman to receive a national writing prize (1942) and her novel Jubilee..... Read More about How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature. (Signed
![3731221] Mirror to America. The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. (Signed). John Hope Franklin](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731221.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1638289380)
First edition and inscribed by Franklin on the half-title. Autobiography of this important historian and civil rights activist. Franklin was “the first black historian to..... Read More about Mirror to America. The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. (Signed
![3731105] Corner Stores in the Middle Of the Block: That Urban Look. (Signed). pseud Blue](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731105.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1632977868)
Signed by the author, Brad Bathgate, and with a small illustration by him beneath his autograph. With blurbs from The New York Times, New York..... Read More about Corner Stores in the Middle Of the Block: That Urban Look. (Signed
![3730627] From the Back of the Bus. Dick Gregory](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730627.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1625758862)
First edition of the author’s first book. Comic and satirical musings on various themes—America, Brotherhood Week, Freedom Rides, etc.—from comedian and civil rights activist, Dick..... Read More about From the Back of the Bus
![3730625] Black Power, A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos. Richard Wright](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730625.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1625758861)
Black novelist Richard Wright’s non-fiction book about his 1953–1954 trip to Africa’s Gold Coast (Ghana). During the 1950s, Richard Wright (1908–1960) made extensive foreign travels..... Read More about Black Power, A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos
![3729960] Writings: The Suppression of the Slave-Trade. The Souls of Black Folk. Dusk of Dawn....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729960.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1610649342)
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...
![3729699] Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1926 and Yearbook of American Poetry. (Inscribed copy;...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729699.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1602711875)
First edition. Inscribed and signed twice by African-American poet and critic William Stanley Braithwaite (1878–1962), admired for his instinctive talent in identifying poetic genius. This..... Read More about Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1926 and Yearbook of American Poetry. (Inscribed copy; Langston...
![3729451] The Senate and the Versailles Mandate System. Rayford W. Logan](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729451.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1597516829)
First edition of this examination of the Versailles Treaty that ended the First World War with a particular focus on the “Armenia Question.” Rayford W...... Read More about The Senate and the Versailles Mandate System
![3729322] Three-Fifths of a Man. (Signed). Floyd McKissick](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729322.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1592851525)
First Edition. Inscribed in the year of publication: “To Tom. Best Wishes. Floyd McKissick. June 69.” Floyd Bixler McKissick (1922–1991), Civil Rights activist, lawyer, founder..... Read More about Three-Fifths of a Man. (Signed
