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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
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
First two volumes—eight issues in all—of Phylon, a quarterly academic journal dedicated to issues of race and culture from an African American perspective, edited by..... Read More about Phylon, The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture [Volumes I and II
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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
Good historical survey of the progress African Americans from the days of slavery and the Underground Railroad to the times of cultural uplifting by such... Read More about The White Side of a Black Subject, Enlarged and Brought Down to Date. A Vindication of the...
Historical and thematic study of African American newspaper publishing with an emphasis on civil rights and issues of race. Discusses such newspapers as Samuel Cornish’s..... Read More about The Negro Press in the United States
![Signed by Rosa Parks:] “Rosa Parks Wouldn’t Budge” within American Heritage, February 1972....](/pictures/thumb/3728821_1.jpg?v=1565122196)
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
Facsimile reprints of four state or national Colored Conventions convened by African Americans in the mid-19th century. Each has a modern bibliographical note and/or historical..... Read More about Afro-American History Series, Collection 5: Convention Pamphlets [facsimile reprints of four...
Examination of George Washington as a slaveholding Virginia planter, Revolutionary War general, and U.S. president, issued by noted African American publishing house, The Associated Publishers..... Read More about George Washington and the Negro
Autobiography of American Civil War general (brevet) and U.S. Commissioner of Education, John Eaton (1829–1906). Eaton attended Andover Theological Seminary and was ordained in 1861... Read More about Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen. Reminiscences of the Civil War with Special Reference to the...
An examination of President Abraham Lincoln’s familial, marital, and sympathetic ties to the American South and Southern viewpoints by Civil War historian, Lincoln biographer, and..... Read More about Lincoln and the South
Immediate post-World War II survey of the plight Blacks in Africa, the West Indies, Latin America, and the United States by Howard University professor, author... Read More about The Negro and the Post-War World, A Primer
A history of African-American physicians and their exclusion from white medical associations until well into the 20th century. Dr. William Montague Cobb (1904-1990) was the... Read More about The First Negro Medical Society. A History of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of...
Historical and thematic study of African American newspaper publishing with an emphasis on civil rights and issues of race. Discusses such newspapers as Samuel Cornish’s..... Read More about The Negro Press in the United States
![The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. [Inscribed Copy]. Francis Butler Simkins,...](/pictures/thumb/3728813_1.jpg?v=1561563387)
Study of white supremacist South Carolina politician and later Democratic governor and U.S. Senator, Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918), and the popular movement he championed. This copy..... Read More about The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. [Inscribed Copy
Study of African American college educational opportunities and student preparatory requirements, signed by its author, J. Irving E. Scott, Ph.D., the Dean of Alcorn A.&M..... Read More about Negro Students & Their Colleges
“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 about Dusk of Dawn. An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept. [Romare Bearden, Illustrator
![Dark Companion. [Signed by African American Arctic Explorer Matthew Henson and the Author]....](/pictures/thumb/3728169_1.jpg?v=1561563376)
Biography of African American explorer Matthew A. Henson (1866–1955), credited as the first man to reach the North Pole. This copy signed by Henson and... Read More about Dark Companion. [Signed by African American Arctic Explorer Matthew Henson and the Author
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A brief 3-line missive by Du Bois —“perhaps the most celebrated 20th century African American intellectual”— written to George Washington Ellis (1875–1919).¹ Ellis was graduated..... Read More about 1912 Typed Letter Signed by W.E.B. Du Bois on The Crisis Letterhead to George Washington Ellis
“Slavery is not yet abolished. Social Rights and Political Liberty are not yet won. Not only did we fail to give the colored and white..... Read More about False Reconstruction; or, The Slavery that is not Abolished
![Black Boy. A Record of Childhood and Youth. [Signed by Richard Wright]. Richard Wright](/pictures/thumb/3727475_1.jpg?v=1561563372)
First Edition of Richard Wright’s fourth book. The haunting tale of his incredibly chaotic and extraordinarily difficult Southern childhood. One filled with constant hunger, a...... Read More about Black Boy. A Record of Childhood and Youth. [Signed by Richard Wright
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Double homicide. Murder in the music. What do you do, the lyrics ask, when you save up all your dough, but “When you feel in..... Read More about Double Homicide:] “Do Your Honey Do.” Comical Coon Song
At the 1912 Progressive or “Bull Moose” Party Convention a controversy arose over Southern black delegates. While the convention allowed black delegates from Northern States..... Read More about The Negro Question. Attitude of the Progressive Party Toward the Colored Race. Colonel...
First edition of the author’s magnum opus; one of the most powerful protest novels ever published on the African American condition in America. Blockson 101..... Read More about Native Son
The illustrated dust jacket shows Harriet Tubman, rifle at her side, pointing and leading the way to her people from enslavement to freedom. Carter G.... Read More about Harriet Tubman
