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?
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...
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
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...
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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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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 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
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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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
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
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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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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...
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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..... Read More about Segregation-era movie theater poster:] Shore Milford…Frank Sinatra in Meet Danny...
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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
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
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…
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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
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
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...
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
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
