![[Cotton Blossom Singers of the Piney Woods School in Mississippi]. Laurence C. Jones, 1882–1975, The Cotton Blossom Singers, Piney Woods School.](/images/noimage-req.png)
C.1950s Musical concert program broadsheet for the all-girl “The Cotton Blossom Singers” of Piney Woods School, an historically black boarding school in Mendenhall, Mississippi. The... Read More
The North Carolina Chain Gang describes, in part, the life of chain gangs on the road, portable prison camps, and methods of organization and discipline... Read More
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
A collection of essays describing the African-American experience from 18th to early 20th century America: “The first two essays deal with fugitive slaves resisting re-enslavement... Read More
First Edition of this second of three collections of poetry written by Davis: “Frank Marshall Davis (1905–1987) rose to prominence as a poet and journalist... Read More
Extraordinary volume of posthumously published poetry by an African-American educator. Illustrated poems on themes of racial discrimination, segregation, and violence are prominently featured. Half the... Read More
An excellent copy. Baltimore: J.H. Furst, 1931. First Edition. Frontis, 415pp., top-edge gilt. Publisher’s maroon and gilt-lettered cloth. Illustrated with numerous plates. A near fine... Read More
History of this women’s charity founded in 1907, an outgrowth from the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. A brief biography of its founder, Mary Emma Cabaniss... Read More
Autobiography from this Iowa native writing of her early life in North Dakota, her college degree achievement, and then her removal to Chicago during the... Read More
Accompanying this book is a small 3pp., leaflet, in part, describing the work, thus: “A thoughtful attempt to show the relations between the white and... Read More
Theodore Dehon Jervey, South Carolina attorney, judge, historian, author, journalist, conservative, here offers a radical solution to “The Negro Problem” —encourage the African-American population of... Read More
Published by the historically black Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, poetry from Langston Hughes, Waring Cuney, William Allyn Hill, and Edward Silvera. [Lincoln University, Pa. 1930,]... Read More
Advertising card for a public reading of African American poetry, given by Truda T. Weil at the Woman’s Club of Reading, Pennsylvania. The program consisted... Read More
Illustrated 1909 graduation program from Lincoln University, the United States’ first degree-granting historically black university. The program contains the full morning, afternoon, and evening exercises... Read More
Post-war “Annual Women’s Day” program detailing activities at Mt. Hebron A.M.E. Church in Linwood, Pennsylvania. Listed are all of the officers, secular music performed, numerous... Read More
The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc. was founded in 1915 by black historian and prolific author Carter G. Woodson, “The... Read More
Kelly Miller, on the faculty of Howard University, wrote numerous monographs on issues of race and black America. He was also the author of The... Read More
This speech by William Andrew Wallace (1827–1896), U.S. Senator, is given a month later in the aftermath of the Hamburg Massacre or Hamburg Riot. On... Read More
On July 4th, in the all-black community of Hamburgh (Hamburg) South Carolina, all-black members of a local militia were harassed by angry planters trying to... Read More
South Carolina Representative Albert Smalls (1839–1915) faced brutal opposition during the election year of 1876. On July 4th, in the all-black community of Hamburgh (Hamburg)... Read More
Twenty-seven portraits of idealized black Americans, one a self portrait of Cooper himself. Each portrait is displayed full-page in black-and-white, reproduced from the original artwork... Read More
Scarce in dust jacket depicting Libyan Sybyl, war-time handbook of black America by this black female editor compiled “to give a picture of the status... Read More
A vocal proponent of black expatriation, Georgia-born Carlyle Mckinley (1847-1904) was a Confederate soldier, journalist, essayist, poet, and associate editor of the Charleston New &... Read More
Profusely illustrated with half-tones from original photographs. Both authors were born into American slavery. Daniel Webster Davis (1862–1913), Richmond, Virginia teacher, poet, lecturer, pastor. “In... Read More
Stroyer was a former slave born on a South Carolina plantation. Emancipated, he eventually became a minister in Massachusetts. Brignano: “An African Methodist Episcopal minister... Read More
