Born a slave, her freedom eventually purchased by her father, Amanda Smith lived as a domestic servant until becoming a Protestant evangelist. As such, she... Read More
Autobiography of Levi Jenkins Coppin (1848–1924), free born Eastern Shore, Maryland-native, “thirtieth bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church, editor, and missionary.” (DANB) After entering... Read More
![Frederick Douglass. [American Crisis Biographies]. Booker T. Washington.](/pictures/thumb/3727260_1.jpg?v=1538436645)
With two copies only in OCLC, a very scarce early reprint edition of this biography from the “American Crisis Biographies” —written by one great African... Read More
First Edition in the rare pictorial dust jacket, profusely illustrated from original photographs. Woodson, “Father of Black History,” authors an exhaustive study of social and... Read More
![The Collapse of the Confederacy. [Inscribed by the Author]. Charles H. Wesley, 1891–1987.](/pictures/thumb/3727876_1.jpg?v=1542302140)
Covers war matériel, politics, cotton and slavery, emancipation, and the “Impressment of Slaves for war Purposes.” Useful appendix gathers primary source documents. Charles H. Wesley... Read More
Chester Himes began writing in prison after being convicted of armed robbery at age nineteen. While many of his novels are now considered classics in... Read More
Dedicated to the poet Witter Bynner and with decorations and a double-plate illustration. by Charles Cullen. DANB: “While in college Cullen also greatly sharpened his... 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
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Evelyn Wright (1872–1906) School founder, educator. A native of Georgia, she founded the Denmark Industrial Institute in Denmark, South Carolina, a school for... 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
The third autobiography authored by Frederick Douglass, the eminent African American 19th century American author, orator, and reformer. This edition noted for its ten-page Introduction... Read More
With a colorful dust jacket design by James Barkley, selections from the speeches, writings, and texts of Frederick Douglass, the eminent African American orator, author... Read More
A facsimile edition from the “Ebony Classics” of the second of three autobiographies, My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass with a four-page Foreword... Read More
The first autobiography of three written by Frederick Douglass, the preeminent black American author, orator, reformer and statesman of nineteenth century America. With an eighteen-page... Read More
[Title continues:] Published for the Frederick Douglass Historical and Cultural League, in preparation for the One Hundredth Anniversary of Douglass’ first Public Appearance in the... Read More
First three (of four and a later supplement) volumes of the extensive writings of Frederick Douglass with pithy and explanatory footnotes and a full-length biography... Read More
![The Trend of the Races. [Review Copy with Ephemera]. George E. Haynes.](/pictures/thumb/3727575_1.jpg?v=1540332418)
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
Lovely copy of this charming little book of poetry by this African American author and noted African American illustratror Lois Mailou Jones. Washington, D.C.: Associated... Read More
The author’s first book, published in 1945. A short collection of poems from this Florida-native African American theologian, philosopher, and civil rights activist. ANB: “By... 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
![Soon, One Morning. New Writing by American Negroes, 1940-1962. [Inscribed and Signed]. James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright.](/pictures/thumb/3727832.jpg?v=1541631288)
Inscribed and signed by the editor, Herbert Hill, and contributor Ossie Davis, in the year of publication. Essays. Fiction. Poems. Numerous luminaries are published within... Read More
![Soon, One Morning. New Writing by American Negroes, 1940-1962. [Inscribed and Signed]. James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright.](/pictures/thumb/3727833_1.jpg?v=1541534825)
Inscribed and signed by contributor John Hope Franklin to a collector of Afro-American history.. Fiction. Poems. Numerous luminaries are published within: James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks... Read More
Corrothers was a Midwestern African American, a clergyman and poet. “His newspaper sketches were later published as The Black Cat Club: Negro Humor and Folk-lore... Read More
With compelling illustrations by Lois Mailou Jones, an American history book for African American youth, written by two African American women from Washington, D.C. Each... Read More
The author’s second work of fiction, a psychological novel of blackness set in a 1960s New York City ghetto. The protagonist, Cecil, embodies the tensions... Read More
