The critically-acclaimed, second autobiography of Booker T. Washington, African American educator, author, orator, and first principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, today Tuskegee University (HBCU)... Read More about Up from Slavery. An Autobiography
Autobiography of African American composer, cornetist, band leader, and publisher W.C.Handy, edited by Harlem Renaissance novelist Arna Bontemps. Handy is widely known as the “Father..... Read More about Father of the Blues. An Autobiography
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Apparently unrecorded salesman’s sample, dummy, or canvassing book heavily illustrated and demonstrating bookbinding options for the first of three autobiographies by African American educator, orator..... Read More about Story of My Life and Work [Salesman’s Sample Book
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
“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
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First Edition of Richard Wright’s fourth book. The haunting tale of his incredibly chaotic and extraordinarily difficult Southern childhood. One filled with constant hunger, a...... Read More about Black Boy. A Record of Childhood and Youth. [Signed by Richard Wright
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...
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Superb Association Copy. Autobiographical memoir of Irish-American woman criminal May Churchill Sharpe, born Mary Anne Duignan (1871–1929), better known as “Chicago May” or “The Queen..... Read More about Chicago May Her Story. [Signed by the author and her defense attorney who wrote the foreword
Partial autobiography of Langston Hughes documenting his life up to 1931. Hughes wrote this title while living in Carmel, California. (ANB) New York: Knopf, 1940... Read More about The Big Sea
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
Born a slave in Thomasville, Georgia, Henry Ossian Flipper (1856–1940) became the first African-American to graduate from the United States Military Academy. The Colored Cadet... Read More about The Colored Cadet at West Point An Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S. A, First...
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
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
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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...
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
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...
