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
![Rosa Parks: My Story. [Signed by Rosa Parks]. Rosa Parks, with Jim Haskins](/pictures/thumb/3727568_1.jpg?v=1552928941)
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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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
Notable for a twenty-six page Introduction by the editor, William M. Tuttle, Jr. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, (1973). First Edition. 186pp. Hardcover; small bump to... Read More about Great Lives Observed: W.E.B. Du Bois
The seminal writings of the great black scholar and activist—“More than representative of Du Bois…they capture the quintessence…the collection has a whole new dimension.”—Arna Bontemps..... Read More about A W.E.B. Du Bois Reader
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
A range of texts by W.EB. Du Bois from 1898’s “The Negroes of Farmville, Virginia: A Social Study” to the 1936 “What the Negro Has..... Read More about Contributions by W.E.B. Du Bois in Government Publications and Proceedings
First edition of this collection of W.E.B. Du Bois writings, a comprehensive gathering of texts from this “...intellectual, aristocrat, social crusader, poet, and Negro leader..... Read More about W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader
“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
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
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
