Biographical sketches of African Methodist Episcopalian church elders, churches, congregations and “then, too, knowledge is given here of individuals, local preachers, class-leaders, stewards, trustees, choir..... Read More about Cyclopaedia of African Methodism
Angelina W. Grimké (1880–1958), African-American female poet, reclusive celibate lesbian, born into the noted biracial Grimké family, with its strong social and community connections to..... Read More about Rachel. A Play in Three Acts
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“Lincoln became Lincoln because of the Negro, and it was the latter who first reflected the image of the Lincoln that was to live.” (Author’s..... Read More about Lincoln and the Negro. [Inscribed by Author
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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 about Frederick Douglass. [American Crisis Biographies
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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
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 about The Rural Negro
African American history for school students authored by Carter G. Woodson, “The Father of Black History”, black historian, and prolific author. The Story of the..... Read More about The Story of the Negro Retold. [Second Edition
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
First Edition. Gifted by Charles Blockson, from his library, with his bookplate, inscribed in his hand, to a fellow collector of African Americana. This is... Read More about Frederick Douglass. A Biography
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 about Lonely Crusade
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 about Black Labor Chant and Other Poems
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 about American Daughter
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 about My Bondage and My Freedom
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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
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 about The Picture-Poetry Book
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First edition, an excellent copy. In The Brown Madonna and Other Poems, Underhill, who was blind, writes autobiographically with the surprisingly uplifting poem “Poor Black..... Read More about The Brown Madonna and Other Poems. [Presentation Copy
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
Single issue of the underground New York City newspaper, The East Village Other, featuring the headline article “Black Power in the Ghetto: two flags, a...... Read More about Ishmael Reed’s “Black Power in the Ghetto: two flags, a stepladder, and a megaphone”...
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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 about My Life in the South. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author
This edition includes a special foreword by Baldwin. Described by the publisher as privately printed and limited, one of an unstated number of copies autographed... Read More about Go Tell It On the Mountain
First edition of Baldwin’s first book, a mid-century American literature classic story of a fourteen-year-old city boy’s spiritual, sexual, and moral awakening. Told partly through..... Read More about Go Tell It On the Mountain
Fact book for the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) church, the first independent U.S. black church, presented in a catechism-like format, with questions and answers. Includes..... Read More about Vital Facts Concerning the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Its Origin, Doctrines, Government,...
