Monograph on Black banks from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. Includes separate chapters on banks in Virginia; the District of Columbia and Maryland; Pennsylvania; and..... Read More about The Negro as Capitalist. A Study of Banking and Business Among American Negroes
Monograph on Black banks from Reconstruction to the Great Depression by pioneering African American economist, Abram L. Harris (1899–1963). Includes separate chapters on banks in..... Read More about The Negro as Capitalist. A Study of Banking and Business Among American Negroes
Angelina W. Grimké (1880–1958) was an African-American female poet and reclusive celibate lesbian who was born into the noted biracial Grimké family, with its strong..... Read More about Rachel. A Play in Three Acts
Angelina W. Grimké (1880–1958) was an African-American female poet and reclusive celibate lesbian who was born into the noted biracial Grimké family, with its strong..... Read More about Rachel. A Play in Three Acts
Biography of this famed Massachusetts abolitionist written by Archibald Grimké, civil rights leader, high-level officer in the NAACP, and a noted lawyer, among many other..... Read More about William Lloyd Garrison: The Abolitionist
The critically-acclaimed, second autobiography of Booker T. Washington, African American educator, author, orator, and first principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, today Tuskegee University (HBCU)..... Read More about Up From Slavery. An Autobiography
The Negro History Bulletin, was a magazine aimed at elementary and high school teachers. Commencing in 1937, the Bulletin was edited by Carter G. Woodson—the..... Read More about Negro History Bulletin, 6 Volumes + 13 Issues, 1943–1973
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African American history for school students authored by Carter G. Woodson, black historian and prolific author and “The Father of Black History” and Charles H...... Read More about The Story of the Negro Retold. [Fourth Edition
![The Journal of Negro History, 25 Volumes, 1916–1960. [With Significant Provenance]. Carter G....](/pictures/thumb/3729441_1.jpg?v=1597437268)
Twenty-five bound volumes of The Journal of Negro History, begun in 1916 and published quarterly by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, 25 Volumes, 1916–1960. [With Significant Provenance
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Striking broadside calendar of important dates in African American history illustrated by Harlem Renaissance-influenced artist Lois Mailou Jones and with brief notices of events commemorated..... Read More about Important Events and Dates in Negro History [Lois Mailou Jones, artist
Fuller’s play, loosely based on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, concerns racism and the murder of a Black army officer on a Louisiana military base during..... Read More about A Soldier’s Play
Containing the Inaugural Issue, with its first article written by Carter G. Woodson, 48 Numbers of Journal of Negro Education, a quarterly edited by University..... Read More about Journal of Negro Education, A Quarterly Review of Problems Incident to the Education of Negroes,...
Blockson: “The best known early study of the development and contribution of blacks in the field of labor. Wesley, (b. 1891), a former president of..... Read More about Negro Labor in the United States, 1850-1925. A Study in American Economic History
Blockson: “The best known early study of the development and contribution of blacks in the field of labor. Wesley, (b. 1891), a former president of..... Read More about Negro Labor in the United States, 1850-1925. A Study in American Economic History
Biography of Richard Allen (1760–1831), former enslaved African American, preacher, hymn book publisher, and founder and first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church (A.M.E.)..... Read More about Richard Allen, Apostle of Freedom
Comprehensive history of elementary through college education for African Americans in Mississippi. The history was written by Prof. Charles H. Wilson, Sr., formerly of Mississippi’s..... Read More about Education for Negroes in Mississippi Since 1910
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Autographed autobiography of African American author Chester Himes, noted for employing an autobiographical style in his early novels. In 1956, after starting a self-exile in..... Read More about The Quality of Hurt, The Autobiography of Chester Himes. Volume 1. [Signed by Author
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Autographed 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..... Read More about Color [Signed by the Author
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
Lincoln University printed matter—a small broadside and a student newspaper—promoting a campus visit, book signing, and lecture by Black novelist and university instructor, David Bradley..... Read More about Lincoln University Broadside and Newspaper for a Lecture by David Bradley, author of the...
Autobiography from this Iowa native African-American writing of her early life in North Dakota, her college degree achievement, and then her removal to Chicago during..... Read More about American Daughter
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Inscribed and signed in the year of publication. Floyd Bixler McKissick (1922–1991), Civil Rights activist, lawyer, founder of Soul City, author; born in —and with..... Read More about Three-Fifths of a Man. [First Edition, Inscribed and Signed
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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 about The Trend of the Races. [Review Copy with Ephemera
Definitive biography of this important intellectual, often described as America’s first great black novelist. Chesnutt is perhaps best known for his important fin de siècle..... Read More about Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Pioneer of the Color Line
Self-published memoir of African American Isaac Robbins of Alabama, a WWII veteran, small business owner, brick mason, and civil rights worker for the NAACP. Robbins’..... Read More about Glimpse of Providence. A Black Boy’s Experience in Foreign Lands
