Published for the first time, the autobiography of this remarkable man born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation. Lynch rose to become Speaker of the..... Read More about Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch
First edition of this autobiography written by this remarkable black American often associated with the Harlem Renaissance; lawyer, author, librettist, journalist, civil rights leader, educator..... Read More about Along This Way. The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson
Hughes Robert Charles Henri Le Roux (1860–1925) was a French writer of travel literature and French colonies, a journalist, and an intimate of official French..... Read More about Oh My Past…Memoirs of a Child [Unknown Manuscript Translation of the Autobiography of French...
Illustrated edition of Up from Slavery, Black educator and race leader Booker T. Washington’s 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...
Important, early American autobiographical slave narrative by Moses Roper, a native of North Carolina who was enslaved in South Carolina and Florida. Facsimile reprint of..... Read More about A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery… [facsimile reprint
Autobiography of author, editor, and antislavery activist Henry Walton Bibb (1815–1854), born into slavery in Shelby County, Kentucky. This modern, facsimile reprint of Bibb’s autobiography..... Read More about Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave. Written by Himself....
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Published seven years after Thomas’s Down These Mean Streets, Thomas returns to describe in further detail his brutal life in prison, locked up for seven..... Read More about Seven Long Times. [Inscribed and Signed
The fourth volume in writer, poet, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou’s autobiography, chronicling events taking place between 1957 and 1962 including her work for..... Read More about The Heart of a Woman
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First nine volumes of the collected speeches and outgoing and incoming letters of Booker T. Washington (1856?–1915), educator, orator, African American civic leader, and author..... Read More about The Booker T. Washington Papers [9 volumes (of 14
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“Du Bois accepted an appointment as chair of the sociology department at Atlanta University, where he had already been teaching as a visiting professor during..... Read More about Dusk of Dawn. An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept. [Romare Bearden, Illustrator
Autobiographical memoir of Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved blacksmith Isaac Jefferson (1775–1850) as recorded by author and teacher Charles Campbell. Edited and with an historical and bibliographical..... Read More about Memoirs of a Monticello Slave, as Dictated to Charles Campbell in the 1840’s by Isaac, one of...
Self-published memoir of African American Isaac Robbins of Alabama, a WWII veteran, small business owner, brick mason, and civil rights worker for the NAACP. Robbins’..... Read More about Glimpse of Providence. A Black Boy’s Experience in Foreign Lands
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Collection of Civil War short stories by veteran, Baltimore newspaperman, and sculptor Felix Agnus (1839–1925). Though fictionalized—the author calls them “tales built upon true incidents,”..... Read More about A Woman of War and Other Stories. [Inscribed by the Author
Autobiography from this Iowa native African-American writing of her early life in North Dakota, her college degree achievement, and then her removal to Chicago during..... Read More about American Daughter
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Signed by the author, his first book. This copy owned by a Freedom Summer volunteer and Civil Rights protestor. Story of a young Puerto Rican..... Read More about Down These Mean Streets. A Stunning Autobiography of Corruption and Innocence. [Signed Copy
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Scarce first edition of Jack Donovan’s autobiography which begins with a stark catalog of vice which took him down into “the depths”: (1) A thief..... Read More about Cons and Cheats:] Out of the Depths. The Redemption of Jack Donovan. The Boy Thief, the...
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Autobiography and crime memoir by Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884), noted Scottish-American private detective and spy. This copy has a presentation inscription from Pinkerton’s son and successor..... Read More about Professional Thieves and the Detective [Autographed by Robert A. Pinkerton
