Young’s role in the civil rights movement began early. He was the executive directory of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), working closely with Martin..... Read More about An Easy Burden. The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America. [Signed by the Author
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This rare, anonymous broadside is an attack in 1876 upon Governor Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, by excerpting from Southern newspapers from..... Read More about Paying the Southern War Claims [caption title
Thoughts on effective protest and resistance by a long-time civil rights leader, co-organizer of the 1963 March on Washington (when Martin Luther King delivered his..... Read More about Strategies for Freedom, the Changing Patterns of Black Protest
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Early and scarce reprint edition of this biography from the “American Crisis Biographies” —written by one great African American of another. This Macrae-Smith edition has..... Read More about Frederick Douglass. [American Crisis Biographies
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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..... Read More about From every mountainside, let freedom ring! Martin Luther King, Jr. [poster
“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..... Read More about W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography Of A Race, 1868-1919
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..... Read More about W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight For Equality And The American Century, 1919-1963
Study of African American civil rights in the Progressive Era and the political reformers and journalists, both Black and White, who helped the cause. This..... Read More about The Malignant Heritage: Yankee Progressives and the Negro Question 1901-1914. [inscribed and...
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 about W.E.B. Du Bois: Propagandist of the Negro Protest
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 about T. Thomas Fortune: Militant Journalist
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 about James Weldon Johnson: Black Leader, Black Voice
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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..... Read More about The Negro Question. [with interesting African American provenance
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..... Read More about Old News: Resurrection City
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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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
First edition of Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s final book—containing the important chapter on “Black Power.” King’s book is about non-violence in the face of growing..... Read More about Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
Unrecorded. Voting Rights broadside mobilizing Chicagoans to rally in Jackson, Mississippi with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the “Meredith Mississippi March” in support of..... Read More about We Can’t Wait. Join Meredith Mississippi March. Meet! Mobilize! March! “A Sunday with Martin...
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 about Proceedings of the Second National Conference on the Problems of the Negro and Negro Youth…
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
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..... Read More about Negro Year Book. An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1918-1919
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 about The Crisis Years of W.E.B. Du Bois, 1910-1934
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 about W.E.B. Du Bois: A Bibliography of His Published Writings
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..... Read More about Dark Testament and Other Poems
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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 about White Man’s Burden. A Personal Testament. [Presentation Copy
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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..... Read More about Segregation-era, rainbow-printed movie theater poster:] It’s Movie Time U.S.A. Beautiful New...
