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 about Free at Last. The Life of Frederick Douglass
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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 about Frederick Douglass. [American Crisis Biographies
![From every mountainside, let freedom ring! Martin Luther King, Jr. [poster]. designer Carol...](/pictures/thumb/3728389_1.jpg?v=1548868045)
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
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Collected essays, addresses, sermons, and letters by and to anti-slavery and civil rights activist Francis J. Grimké (1850–1937), an African American member of the noted..... Read More about The Works of Francis J. Grimke [4 volume set complete
“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
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
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February 1972 issue of American Heritage magazine featuring the article “Rosa Parks Wouldn’t Budge” about her key role in the second phase of the African..... Read More about Signed by Rosa Parks:] “Rosa Parks Wouldn’t Budge” within American Heritage, February 1972
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
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
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…
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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The author’s first book. Family memoir of prominent civil rights and women’s rights activist, lawyer, author, and Baltimore-native, Pauli Murray (1910–1985). Presentation copy with inscription..... Read More about Proud Shoes. [Presentation Copy
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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... Read More about Rosa Parks: My Story. [Signed by Rosa Parks
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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
![Segregation-era, rainbow-printed movie theater poster:] It’s Movie Time U.S.A. Beautiful New...](/pictures/thumb/3728399_1.jpg?v=1548871662)
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...
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 about There Was Once a Slave ... The Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass
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 about Du Bois: A Pictorial Biography
