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
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
Twelve stories, first edition of Dunbar’s first prose collection. A remarkably bright and exceptional copy. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1898. Rust-brown cloth, stamped..... Read More
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
Poster advertising the world premiere of African American composer Ulysses Kay’s three-act opera, Frederick Douglass. Composed in 1979–1985 in collaboration with white librettist Donald Dorr..... Read More
Novel of an upwardly mobile black woman who wants her daughter to move up into New York’s café society. Inscribed by the author: “For the..... Read More
First edition, an excellent copy. In The Brown Madonna and Other Poems, Underhill, who was blind, writes autobiographically with the surprisingly uplifting poem “Poor Black..... Read More
Edited by Waring Cuney, Langston Hughes, and Bruce McM. Wright. Foreword by Dr. Horace Mann Bond. Introduction by J. Saunders Redding. One of a 1000... Read More
A superior copy. A lengthy and critical attack of Chief Justice Taney’s opinion in the Dred Scott decision by this well-regarded statesman from the slave..... Read More
“Du Bois accepted an appointment as chair of the sociology department at Atlanta University, where he had already been teaching as a visiting professor during..... Read More
Du Bois’s classic work in which his prophecy is presented: that the problem of the 20th century is that of the color line. Blockson 101..... Read More
First edition of this “classic debunker” of the religious cult leader Father Divine. “The Great Depression left large numbers of Negroes in Harlem and elsewhere..... Read More
Talley, an African American professor at Fisk University, presents an exhaustive compilation of black American folk rhymes followed by an almost one hundred-page scholarly interpretation... Read More
Legal argument in the New Jersey Supreme Court for the immediate abolition of slavery made by Alvan Stewart “to test the institution of slavery in..... Read More
Critique of slavery in the American South by a Methodist Episcopal minister and Maryland native. Long’s controversial treatise, published by himself, drew on his own..... Read More
Fact book for the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) church, the first independent U.S. black church, presented in a catechism-like format, with questions and answers. Includes..... Read More
Selective and Critical Bibliography of Horace Mann p10: “Contains speeches and letters delivered or written during Mann’s Congressional term [...]; letter written in answer to..... Read More
Civil rights reformer, Mary White Ovington, caucasian, was a founder of the N.A.A.C.P. “Ovington began in 1904 a study of black Manhattan. Focusing particularly on..... Read More
First edition of an important American Civil War-time work arguing for emancipation of slaves by noted American reformer and former congressman, Robert Dale Owen (1801–1877)... Read More
Born a slave in Thomasville, Georgia, Henry Ossian Flipper (1856–1940) became the first African-American to graduate from the United States Military Academy. The Colored Cadet... Read More
Brief inscription with autograph of John Hope Franklin. Here, ten scholars offer their interpretations of various facets of Reconstruction. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, (1991). First... Read More
Entertainment advertising poster for a 1941 musical performance in Muncie, Indiana by African American singer Ethyl Fitzgerald and “Her Original Southern Play Boys.” Fitzgerald and..... Read More
Novel about a black family’s struggles in a Southern factory town, set in 1920s–1930s Crossroads, Georgia. Killens, a native of Macon, Georgia, wrote six novels..... Read More
“The definitive account of the first American blacks emancipated in the Revolution, their return to Africa, and their creation of a new society there.” (dust..... Read More
Biography of African American explorer Matthew A. Henson (1866–1955), credited as the first man to reach the North Pole. In 1908–1909, Henson accompanied explorer and... Read More
![[Segregation-era, rainbow-printed movie theater poster:] It’s Movie Time U.S.A. Beautiful New Milford, A Schine Theatre…Burlesque in Harlem…The Shore’s Most Comfortable Balcony Section for Colored Patrons. Schine Theatre.](/pictures/thumb/3728399_1.jpg?v=1548871662)
![[Segregation-era movie theater poster:] Shore Milford…Frank Sinatra in Meet Danny Wilson…Comfortable Balcony for Colored. Shore Theatre.](/pictures/thumb/3728398_1.jpg?v=1548871661)
![From every mountainside, let freedom ring! Martin Luther King, Jr. [poster]. designer Carol Livingston.](/pictures/thumb/3728389_1.jpg?v=1548868045)
![Frederick Douglass, Music by Ulysses Kay…World Premiere, New Jersey State Opera… [poster]. composer Ulysses Kay, librettist Donald Dorr, artist Don Miller, 1917–1995, 1934–2011, c.1924–1993.](/pictures/thumb/3728387_1.jpg?v=1548868044)
![The Brown Madonna and Other Poems. [Presentation Copy]. Irvin W. Underhill Sr., 1896–1982, c.1896–1970, E. Washington Rhodes.](/pictures/thumb/3727113_1.jpg?v=1549497784)
![Slavery: Letters and Speeches. [Inscribed and Signed]. Horace Mann, 1796–1859, 1809–1867, Henry Summer Esq.](/pictures/thumb/3728304_1.jpg?v=1548792726)
![The Facts of Reconstruction. Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin. [Inscribed Copy]. Alfred A. Moss Eric Anderson, Jr.](/pictures/thumb/3728231_1.jpg?v=1545242465)
![Breakfast Dance Hit of the Year, Ethyl Fitzgerald and Her Original Southern Play Boys from Louisville, Kentucky…1st Northern Tour. [African American Female Singer]. Ethyl Fitzgerald.](/pictures/thumb/3728224_1.jpg?v=1547575457)
![Youngblood. [Inscribed Copy]. John O. Killens, 1916–1987, John Oliver Killens.](/pictures/thumb/3727372_1.jpg?v=1545242456)
