Autobiography of this Alabamian and influential Southern educator and “planter” considered the “Mother of Black Lutheranism in Central Alabama.” Young is noted for her advocacy..... Read More about Light in the Dark Belt. The Story of Rosa Young as Told by Herself
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First Swedish edition of the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. This final edition of the statesman’s life concludes with chapters primarily concerned with his..... Read More about Frederick Douglass Lif och Samtid. [Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Inscribed and signed by John Hope Franklin and Benjamin Quarles, both Black Americans and distinguished authors and historians of African American history. Both Franklin and..... Read More about The Segregation Era 1863-1954. A Modern Reader. [inscribed by John Hope Franklin and Benjamin...
Signed by the author, Brad Bathgate, and with a small illustration by him beneath his autograph. With blurbs from The New York Times, New York..... Read More about Corner Stores in the Middle Of the Block: That Urban Look. (Signed
Separately issued public letter, “History Made to Order,” by Carter G. Woodson, “The Father of Black History” and prolific author, making a sustained critique of..... Read More about “History Made to Order”: Public Letter by Carter G. Woodson, “The Father of Black...
Large, almost life-size portrait of Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), abolitionist, reformer, orator, and author, taken from a photograph showing Douglass as an elder statesman. Associated Publishers..... Read More about Large Portrait Print of Frederick Douglass, issued by the Associated Publishers, a Black...
The author’s first book. Comic and satirical musings on various themes—America, Brotherhood Week, Freedom Rides, etc.—from Black comedian and civil rights activist, Dick Gregory (1932–2017)..... Read More about From the Back of the Bus
Black novelist Richard Wright’s non-fiction book about his 1953–1954 trip to Africa’s Gold Coast (Ghana). During the 1950s, Wright made extensive foreign travels and it..... Read More about Black Power, A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos
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Sheet music for a song from Act I of the 1946 all-Black musical St. Louis Woman. The musical is based on the novel God Sends..... Read More about Countee Cullen; Arna Bontemps; Countee Cullen:] Come Rain or Come Shine. Edward Gross presents...
Autobiography of Jane Edna Hunter (1892–1971), a nurse and lawyer, and noted for her commitment to help Black American women. A South Carolinian-native born to..... Read More about A Nickel and A Prayer
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
Inscribed and signed by the author. A very useful bibliography. Press of Maurice Jacobs, Philadelphia, 1955. Publisher’s blue cloth. Mild discoloration to boards; Very Good..... Read More about A Century of Fiction by American Negroes 1853-1952. A Descriptive Bibliography. [Inscribed and...
With an Introduction by Nathan Huggins, a collection of standard classics authored by W.E.B. Du Bois. [New York]: The Library of America, (1986). 1334pp. Publisher’s..... Read More about Writings: The Suppression of the Slave-Trade. The Souls of Black Folk. Dusk of Dawn. Essays and...
Definitive biography of this important intellectual, often described as America’s first great Black novelist. Chesnutt is known for his important fin de siècle work of..... Read More about Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Pioneer of the Color Line
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Warmly inscribed by the author to James Phinney Baxter III, historian, academic, Pulitzer Prize-winner for history. An exhaustive study of this topic; “This is the..... Read More about The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with Haiti 1776-1891. [Inscribed Copy
Signed twice, an anthology of poetry edited by William Stanley Braithwaite (1878–1962), African American mixed race poet, literary critic, and some-time professor at Atlanta University..... Read More about Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1926 and Yearbook of American Poetry (Sesqui-Centennial Edition
First Edition, thus. One of the “Apollo Editions” and a collection of biographical sketches of prominent Black Americans written by this Harlem Renaissance writer, poet..... Read More about Famous American Negroes
Antholgy of 19th century writings on Black nationalism. Includes the full text of The Ethiopian Manifesto by Robert Alexander Young; Walker’s Appeal by David Walker;..... Read More about The Ideological Origins of Black Nationalism
An examination of the Versailles Treaty that ended the First World War with a particular focus on the “Armenia Question.” The author, Rayford Whittingham Logan..... Read More about The Senate and the Versailles Mandate System
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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Prospectus for the cloth-bound 54-volume set of the Journal of Negro History, published since 1916 by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and..... Read More about History’s Missing Pages … The Journal of Negro History. [Prospectus; Carter G. Woodson
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,...
Biography of this famed Massachusetts abolitionist written by Archibald Grimké, civil rights leader, high-level officer in the NAACP, and a noted lawyer. The son of..... Read More about William Lloyd Garrison: The Abolitionist
Publishers—“This two-volume set is an authoritative selection of the writings of the dean of black letters in America, W.E.B. Du Bois ... brilliantly recording and..... Read More about The Seventh Son: The Thought and Writings of W.E.B. Du Bois
Volume of poems by civil-rights leader, Harlem Renaissance poet, and novelist, James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938). In addition to the title poem, the book includes such..... Read More about Saint Peter Relates an Incident. Selected Poems
