A biography of one of the most divisive figures in South Carolina’s history: Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847–1918) a.k.a. Pitchfork Ben, white supremacist governor of South..... Read More about Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian
Broadside advertising regular performances of African American “Plantation Spirituals” at South Carolina’s Cypress Gardens and sung “...entirely by local colored people connected with Dean Hall..... Read More about Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of South...
Memorial anthology of aphorisms and sayings by assassinated American civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., printed by a small private press in England..... Read More about Words & Wisdom of Martin Luther King. [Copy No. 1
Separate 1952 publication of Nobel Peace Laureate, American diplomat, and civil rights activist Ralph J. Bunche’s lecture “Peace and the United Nations,” signed by Bunche..... Read More about Tenth Montague Burton Lecture on International Relations, “Peace and the United Nations”...
Promotional booklet for Negro History Week 1969 issued by The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). The cover illustration “Ethiopia Appeals..... Read More about Negro History Week Beginning February 9, 1969. [cover title
Rev. C.C. Dunlap was born in 1860 in Clinton, South Carolina. He attended Allen University in Columbia for six years and eventually served in Abbeville..... Read More about Rev. C. C. Dunlap, D. D. [African Methodist Episcopal Church pastor
An unusual self-published work, inscribed and signed by the author, intersecting the culture, music, and life of African Americans with the world of Jungian psychology..... Read More about Slave Religion, Spirituals, and C.G. Jung
Exhaustive and important study of the numerous Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church by the church’s historian. A lovely copy and scarce to commerce..... Read More about The Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Association Copy of the author’s second book; this copy belonging to Levi Jenkins Coppin (1848–1924), missionary and educator, with his signature and dated by him..... Read More about The Negro and the White Man. [Association Copy
In this boxing rematch, Georgian-native Sugar Ray Robinson defeated England’s Randy Turpin a.k.a. “The Leamington Licker” on September 12, 1951 at the Polo Grounds in..... Read More about The Supreme Fight Sensation of All Time! Sugar Ray Robinson vs Randolph Turpin… [opening lines...
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 /...
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 /...
Memoir of African American author, poet, and temperance lecturer, Eliza Suggs of Nebraska. Physically disabled, Suggs writes about her impairment and stunted growth from brittle..... Read More about Shadow and Sunshine. [cover title: Shadows and Sunshine
Rare, unrecorded broadside or song sheet for “Lift Every Voice and Sing” with the poem/lyrics written by Jacksonville, Florida native James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), African..... Read More about Capt. Levi M. Hood Lodge. Lift Every Voice and Sing (National Negro Hymn
Five programs from African-American churches in Chester, Marcus Hook, and Linwood in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Four of the programs are for the “Annual Women’s Day”..... Read More about 1922–1948 African-American Church Programs for Annual Women’s Days etc
Program for an afternoon entertainment of music, song and spoken word presented by the band of the John A. Watts Lodge, Improved Benevolent and Protective..... Read More about Annual Tea. John A. Watts Band. 1937 [African-American Fraternal Organization
Program for an evening’s entertainment of song, spoken word, and a theatrical performance given jointly by students of Cheyney Normal School, an historically Black college..... Read More about Leslie Pinckney Hill:] Cheyney-Dunbar Recital. Chester High School Auditorium ... 1928 ......
Rare program from a performance by the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, an historically black university in Nashville. The group was led by African-American..... Read More about The Fisk University Jubilee Singers from Nashville, Tenn. Original Company 1871. Twelfth Season....
Early printing of this African-American author’s first book of poetry. Color was published shortly after Countee Cullen was accepted into Harvard’s masters program. Cullen was..... Read More about Color
Black History Month school program celebrating civil rights signed by leading African American activists, Rosa L. Parks, Fred D. Gray, and Martin Luther King, III..... Read More about Signed by Rosa Parks et al.:] West Chester Area School District & Community Presents Past,...
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Black History Month school program celebrating civil rights signed by leading African American activists, Rosa L. Parks, Fred D. Gray, and Martin Luther King, III..... Read More about Signed by Rosa Parks et al.:] West Chester Area School District & Community Presents Past,...
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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 et al:] “Rosa Parks Wouldn’t Budge” within American Heritage, February...
Small archive documenting two separate vaudeville theatrical acts, blackface minstrels Howard and Fields and the “singing and talk” act, Kaufman and Kaufman. Howard and Fields..... Read More about Vaudeville Archive of Blackface Minstrels Howard and Fields and Singing and Talk Act, Kaufman and...
First edition, in publisher’s original polished cloth, a collection of anti-slavery lectures by Boston abolitionist Amos A. Phelps. This copy with an inscription on the..... Read More about Lectures on Slavery and Its Remedy. [American Anti-Slavery Society stencil mark plus Pennsylvania...
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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
