Free at Last. The Life of Frederick Douglass.
Bontemps’ biography of this extraordinary African American author, orator, and statesman, born a slave, self-educated, author of three autobiographies and a friend of Abraham Lincoln... Read More
Civil Rights
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Frederick Douglass. [American Crisis Biographies]
With two copies only in OCLC, a very scarce early reprint edition of this biography from the “American Crisis Biographies” —written by one great African... Read More
Frederick Douglass’ Civil War. Keeping Faith in Jubilee.
The author studies in detail how the American Civil War affected the thinking and views of Frederick Douglass, the former slave who became one one... Read More
Young Frederick Douglass. The Maryland Years. [First Edition, Inscribed and Signed]
The author explores, among other things, the claims of his detractors that Frederick Douglass could not have come from such lowly origins in Maryland and... Read More
W.E.B. Du Bois: Propagandist of the Negro Protest.
With a new Preface by Louis Harlan and an Epilogue by the author. The difficult, often contentious, battle fought by W.E.B. Du Bois to seek... Read More
T. Thomas Fortune: Militant Journalist.
Born into slavery, the biography of Timothy Thomas Fortune who ascended to become the “dean of Negro journalists in America. The program and methods proposed... Read More
James Weldon Johnson: Black Leader, Black Voice.
First edition of this biography of this remarkable black American; lawyer, author, librettist, journalist, civil rights leader, educator. Born in Florida, Johnson’s multi-faceted life was... Read More
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, written by himself. His early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history to the present time…
1882 edition of the final autobiographical memoir of Frederick Douglass, first published in 1881 by the same publisher. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass “did... Read More
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
The third autobiography authored by Frederick Douglass, the eminent African American 19th century American author, orator, and reformer. This edition noted for its ten-page Introduction... Read More
The Mind and Heart of Frederick Douglass: Excerpts from Speeches of the Great Negro Orator.
With a colorful dust jacket design by James Barkley, selections from the speeches, writings, and texts of Frederick Douglass, the eminent African American orator, author... Read More
1857–1887, Small Archive of George S. Boutwell, Abolitionist Sympathizer, Politician and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
Small archive of autograph letters and notes etc. signed by George S. Boutwell (1818–1905), abolitionist sympathizer, Massachusetts politician, and Congressional champion of African-American voting rights... Read More
Bayard Rustin. The Calm Contender.
Profile by a high school student body of the African-American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, local to the students school district in West Chester, Pennsylvania... Read More
Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch.
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
Proceedings of the Second National Conference on the Problems of the Negro and Negro Youth…
Proceedings of a Depression-era conference examining the role of the federal government to help African Americans in such areas as social and economic security, education... Read More
The Crisis Years of W.E.B. Du Bois, 1910-1934.
OCLC returns six physical copies of this dissertation which explores the years of Du Bois’s editorship of the Crisis; the evils of segregation, discrimination and... Read More
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Bibliography of His Published Writings.
For its time, the most complete bibliography of the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois. Whittier, CA: (Self Published),1977. 202pp. Quarto. Paper wrappers rubbed, else very... Read More
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White Man’s Burden. A Personal Testament. [Presentation Copy]
Kansas native, Ruth Smith, a white woman school teacher of Nordic descent, removes to Alabama to teach in an all black school for girls. In... Read More
There Was Once a Slave ... The Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass.
Winner of the Julian Messner Award for the “Best Book Combatting Intolerance in America.” An interpretation of the life story of Frederick Douglass “—a man... Read More
Du Bois: A Pictorial Biography.
W.E.B. Du Bois as seen through numerous photographs with explanatory captions. Indexed. Authored by Du Bois’s wife, Shirley Graham Du Bois Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co.... Read More
His Day Is Marching On: A Memoir of W.E.B. Du Bois.
Publishers—“Here is the first intimate study of one of the earliest and greatest spokesmen for black liberation— W.E.B. Du Bois — as only his wife... Read More
Writings: The Suppression of the Slave-Trade. The Souls of Black Folk. Dusk of Dawn. Essays and Articles.
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
A W.E.B. Du Bois Reader.
The seminal writings of the great black scholar and activist—“More than representative of Du Bois…they capture the quintessence…the collection has a whole new dimension.”—Arna Bontemps... Read More
Contributions by W.E.B. Du Bois in Government Publications and Proceedings.
A range of texts by W.EB. Du Bois from 1898’s “The Negroes of Farmville, Virginia: A Social Study” to the 1936 “What the Negro Has... Read More
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader.
First edition of this collection of W.E.B. Du Bois writings, a comprehensive gathering of texts from this “...intellectual, aristocrat, social crusader, poet, and Negro leader... Read More
Great Lives Observed: W.E.B. Du Bois.
Notable for a twenty-six page Introduction by the editor, William M. Tuttle, Jr. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, (1973). First Edition. 186pp. Hardcover; small bump to... Read More