A diverse collection of 48 press photographs and images of key Civil Rights leaders issued between the 1960s and 1980s. These images show Dr. Martin..... Read More about 48 Publicity and Wire Service Press Photographs of African American Civil Rights Leaders and...
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“On the foundation of our history, we can continue to build a lasting temple of self-respect and self-esteem, as other population groups have done” (p21) ..... Read More about Civil Rights Activism:] Creating and Maintaining an Historical Tradition
Full title: “Reward for the Capture of Booth. Report of Mr. Hotchkiss, from the Committee of Claims, on the Resolution instructing them to inquire into..... Read More about Reward for the Capture of Booth. [House of Representatives 39th Congress, 1st Session. Report No. 99
Published for the first time, the autobiography of this remarkable man enslaved from birth 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
Enslaved from birth, 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
The author’s first book. Comic and satirical musings on various themes—America, Brotherhood Week, Freedom Rides, etc.—from Black comedian and civil rights activist, Dick Gregory (1932–2017)..... Read More about From the Back of the Bus
Second of two important 1866 speeches given by abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, a leading advocate for civil rights for Black Americans. Sumner attacks..... Read More about No Compromise of Human Rights. No admission in the Constitution of Inequality of Rights, or...
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 about Writings: The Suppression of the Slave-Trade. The Souls of Black Folk. Dusk of Dawn. Essays and...
First edition of this biography of this remarkable African 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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Autograph Edition of this “collection of authentic stories of Negro life in South Carolina” based upon African-American fables and songs told to this white folklorist..... Read More about Autographed by Tad and Scip:] Congaree Sketches. Scenes from Negro Life in the Swamps of the...
Digest of civil rights laws in all 50 States and the District of Columbia. Entries for each state are arranged topically under these headings: voting..... Read More about Where the States Stand on Civil Rights
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
“The foundation text of jury independence and of the jury as a bulwark of English Liberty” and the last edition published in the 18th century..... Read More about The Englishman’s Right, or, A Dialogue Between a Barrister at Law and a Juryman: shewing, 1....
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Entirely hand-lettered promotional poster for a Black History Month school program celebrating civil rights, signed by leading African American activists, Rosa L. Parks, Fred D...... Read More about Signed by Rosa Parks et al.:] West Chester School District Committee for Black History Month /...
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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
![The Booker T. Washington Papers [9 volumes (of 14)]. Louis R. Harlan, Raymond W. Smock,...](/pictures/thumb/3728833_1.jpg?v=1572374121)
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
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
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
![The Negro Question. [with interesting African American provenance]. George W. Cable, J E. Bruce,...](/pictures/thumb/3728478_1.jpg?v=1552931640)
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
![Black Alabamians:] Glimpse of Providence. A Black Boy’s Experience in Foreign Lands. Isaac Robbins](/pictures/thumb/3728473_1.jpg?v=1552931638)
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 Black Alabamians:] Glimpse of Providence. A Black Boy’s Experience in Foreign Lands
![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
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
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
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
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 about His Day Is Marching On: A Memoir of W.E.B. Du Bois
