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.....
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.....
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From every mountainside, let freedom ring! Martin Luther King, Jr. [poster]
Inspirational poster featuring a photographic portrait of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. against a rainbow-like background. The poster was designed by Carol.....
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography Of A Race, 1868-1919.
“Premier architect of the civil rights movement in the United States, W.E.B. Du Bois was a towering and controversial personality .... This compelling, lucid, and.....
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight For Equality And The American Century, 1919-1963.
The author “re-creates the second half of W.E.B. DuBois’s charged and brilliant career. Beginning with the return of World War I African-American veterans to the.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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The Negro Question. [with interesting African American provenance]
Toward the end of his literary career, New Orleans-native and Southern author George W. Cable turned from popular novels—e.g. Old Creole Days, Madame Delphine, and.....
Old News: Resurrection City.
New York City street photographer, Jill Freedman lived in the protest encampment, “Resurrection City” at Washington, D.C. for six weeks, documenting The Poor Peoples Campaign.....
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...
Why We Can’t Wait.
King’s third book, Why We Can’t Wait, includes the first book appearance of his celebrated “Letter from Birmingham Jail” written after he was arrested in.....
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...
Negro Year Book. An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1918-1919.
Fifth annual Negro Year Book of encyclopedic and statistical reports compiled by African-American sociologist Monroe N. Work (1866–1945). A participant in the Niagara Movement of...
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.....
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.....
Dark Testament and Other Poems.
Posthumous collection of poems by American civil rights and women’s rights activist, co-founder of NOW, lawyer and Episcopal priest, Anna Pauline Murray (1910-1985). Many of.....
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Rosa Parks: My Story. [Signed by Rosa Parks]
Autobiographical memoir by this icon of the American Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s, made famous by her refusal to give up her seat to...
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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.....
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[Segregation-era, rainbow-printed movie theater poster:] It’s Movie Time U.S.A. Beautiful New Milford, A Schine Theatre…Burlesque in Harlem…The Shore’s Most Comfortable Balcony Section for Colored Patrons.
1952 Segregation-era movie theater poster from the Schine Theatre in Milford, Delaware. Located near the coast of Southern Delaware, the poster bears the legend: “The...
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.....
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......
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.....
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[Segregation-era movie theater poster:] Shore Milford…Frank Sinatra in Meet Danny Wilson…Comfortable Balcony for Colored.
1952 Segregation-era movie theater poster for Frank Sinatra’s film Meet Danny Wilson, co-starring Shelly Winters and Alex Nicol. A legend at the bottom of the.....
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.....