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The Negro as Capitalist. A Study of Banking and Business Among American Negroes. Ph D. Abram L....

The Negro as Capitalist. A Study of Banking and Business Among American Negroes.

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

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William Lloyd Garrison: The Abolitionist. Archibald Henry Grimké, Grimke

William Lloyd Garrison: The Abolitionist.

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

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Lincoln and the Negro. [Inscribed by Author]. Benjamin Quarles, 1904–1996

Lincoln and the Negro. [Inscribed by Author]

“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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Up from Slavery. Booker T. Washington, 1856–1915

Up from Slavery.

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

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Negro History Bulletin, 6 Volumes + 13 Issues, 1943–1973. Rayford W. Logan Carter G. Woodson,...

Negro History Bulletin, 6 Volumes + 13 Issues, 1943–1973.

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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Important Events and Dates in Negro History [Lois Mailou Jones, artist]. Carter Godwin Woodson,...

Important Events and Dates in Negro History [Lois Mailou Jones, artist].

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

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Journal of Negro Education, A Quarterly Review of Problems Incident to the Education of Negroes,...

Journal of Negro Education, A Quarterly Review of Problems Incident to the Education of Negroes, 48 Numbers, 1932–1950.

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,...

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Negro Labor in the United States, 1850-1925. A Study in American Economic History. Charles H. Wesley

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

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Negro Labor in the United States, 1850-1925. A Study in American Economic History. Charles H. Wesley

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

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Color [Signed by the Author]. Countee Cullen

Color [Signed by the Author]

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

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Lincoln University Broadside and Newspaper for a Lecture by David Bradley, author of the...

[Lincoln University Broadside and Newspaper for a Lecture by David Bradley, author of the Black-Themed, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning Novel, “The Chaneysville Incident.” Both Signed by Bradley].

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...

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American Daughter. Era Bell Thompson

American Daughter.

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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Three-Fifths of a Man. [First Edition, Inscribed and Signed]. Floyd McKissick

Three-Fifths of a Man. [First Edition, Inscribed and Signed]

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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The Trend of the Races. [Review Copy with Ephemera]. George E. Haynes

The Trend of the Races. [Review Copy with Ephemera]

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

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Pioneer of the Color Line. Helen M. Chesnutt

Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Pioneer of the Color Line.

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

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Glimpse of Providence. A Black Boy’s Experience in Foreign Lands. Isaac Robbins

Glimpse of Providence. A Black Boy’s Experience in Foreign Lands.

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

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Negro Students & Their Colleges. Ph D. J. Irving E. Scott, 1901–?

Negro Students & Their Colleges.

Study of African American college educational opportunities and student preparatory requirements, signed by its author, J. Irving E. Scott, Ph.D., the Dean of Alcorn A.&M..... Read More about Negro Students & Their Colleges

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Vital Facts Concerning the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Its Origin, Doctrines, Government,...

Vital Facts Concerning the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Its Origin, Doctrines, Government, Usages, Polity, Progress. (A Socratic Exposition).

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,...

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Along This Way. The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson. James Weldon Johnson, 1871–1938

Along This Way. The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson.

First edition of this autobiography written by this remarkable black American often associated with the Harlem Renaissance; lawyer, author, librettist, journalist, civil rights leader, educator..... Read More about Along This Way. The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson

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Saint Peter Relates an Incident. Selected Poems. James Weldon Johnson, 1871–1938

Saint Peter Relates an Incident. Selected Poems.

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

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A Glance Away. John Edgar Wideman

A Glance Away.

The author’s first book. Wideman twice won the International PEN/Faulkner Award (the first to do so) and in 2000 won the O. Henry Award. The..... Read More about A Glance Away

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Youngblood. [Inscribed Copy]. John O. Killens, 1916–1987, John Oliver Killens

Youngblood. [Inscribed Copy]

Novel about a black family’s struggles in a Southern factory town, set in 1920s–1930s Crossroads, Georgia. Killens, a native of Macon, Georgia, wrote six novels..... Read More about Youngblood. [Inscribed Copy

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The Cotillion or One Good Bull is Half the Herd. John Oliver Killens, 1916–1987

The Cotillion or One Good Bull is Half the Herd.

Novel of an upwardly mobile black woman who wants her daughter to move up into New York’s café society. Inscribed by the author: “For the..... Read More about The Cotillion or One Good Bull is Half the Herd

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Facts of Reconstruction. John R. Lynch, 1847–1939, John Roy Lynch

Facts of Reconstruction.

Important account of Reconstruction in Mississippi written by an African American participant there at the time, John R. Lynch, former U.S. Congressman, 1873–1877 and 1882–1883..... Read More about Facts of Reconstruction

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New Negro Poets. [Edited by Langston Hughes; Signed by Helen Morgan Brooks]. LeRoi Jones Julian Bond

New Negro Poets. [Edited by Langston Hughes; Signed by Helen Morgan Brooks]

Anthology of poetry by over thirty African American writers, primarily men. This copy is inscribed by contributor Helen Morgan Brooks who offers two poems within..... Read More about New Negro Poets. [Edited by Langston Hughes; Signed by Helen Morgan Brooks

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