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Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?

First edition of Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s final book—containing the important chapter on “Black Power.” In Where Do We Go From Here, Dr. King assessed..... Read More about Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?

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The Learning Tree. (Signed)

First English edition of this fictional autobiography by Kansas-born Gordon Parks. The basis for this groundbreaking film in African American cinema. Directed by Parks, The..... Read More about The Learning Tree. (Signed

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Richard Allen, Apostle of Freedom.

Biography of Richard Allen (1760–1831), once-enslaved, the African American, preacher, hymn book publisher, founder and first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church. Charles H...... Read More about Richard Allen, Apostle of Freedom

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Malcolm X. The Man and His Times.

Twenty-one “Black writers (including Shirley Graham DuBois, Ossie Davis, and Gordon Parks) on the most charismatic and pivotal figure in Afro-American history—who he really was..... Read More about Malcolm X. The Man and His Times

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The Seventh Son: The Thought and Writings of W.E.B. Du Bois.

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

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American Daughter.

First Edition. Autobiography from this Iowa native African-American writing of her early life in North Dakota, her college degree achievement, and then her removal to..... Read More about American Daughter

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Piney Woods and Its Story. (Signed and with ephemera)

Inscribed: “To Mr. W.H. Middlebrook. In the spirit in which he met us. Laurence C. Jones, Founder + Principal of the Piney Woods School, Piney..... Read More about Piney Woods and Its Story. (Signed and with ephemera

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3731638] Theological Kernels: A Question-Book of Bible Doctrines and Baptist Church Polity, with...

Theological Kernels: A Question-Book of Bible Doctrines and Baptist Church Polity, with Scripture References.

First and sole edition. Jacob Tileston Brown (1863–1947) was among the first Black American ministers to write Sunday school literature. (Houston Bryan Roberson) Pages 1–13..... Read More about Theological Kernels: A Question-Book of Bible Doctrines and Baptist Church Polity, with Scripture...

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Light in the Dark Belt. The Story of Rosa Young as Told by Herself.

First edition of this autobiography of this Alabamian and influential Southern educator and “planter” considered the “Mother of Black Lutheranism in Central Alabama.” Young is..... Read More about Light in the Dark Belt. The Story of Rosa Young as Told by Herself

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Simple Speaks His Mind. (Inscribed)

First edition of this first collection of the “Simple” short stories written about the everyday lives of Harlemites. Given by Hughes, in the year of..... Read More about Simple Speaks His Mind. (Inscribed

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The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas. Stories by Reginald McKnight.

First edition, first printing. McKnight won the O. Henry Award and the Kenyon Review New Fiction Prize for “The Kind of Light That Shines on..... Read More about The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas. Stories by Reginald McKnight

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This is My Century: New and Collected Poems. (Signed)

A member of the Chicago Black Renaissance, Margaret Walker (1915–1998) was the first woman to receive a national writing prize (1942) and her novel Jubilee..... Read More about This is My Century: New and Collected Poems. (Signed

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How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature. (Signed)

A member of the Chicago Black Renaissance, Margaret Walker (1915–1998) was the first woman to receive a national writing prize (1942) and her novel Jubilee..... Read More about How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature. (Signed

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The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems.

A collection of 15 poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize in any category. Brooks used the sizable influence..... Read More about The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems

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South of Freedom. (Signed)

Signed. First edition of the author’s first book. A Tennessee native, Rowan was a respected journalist for the Minneapolis Tribune, a Department of State government..... Read More about South of Freedom. (Signed

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From Slavery to Freedom, A History of American Negroes. (Signed)

Significantly expanded from the first edition. Inscribed and signed by this historian and civil rights activist. John Hope Franklin’s “most important book, From Slavery to..... Read More about From Slavery to Freedom, A History of American Negroes. (Signed

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3730510] Up from Slavery. With an Introduction by Booker T. Washington III and Illustrations by...

Up from Slavery. With an Introduction by Booker T. Washington III and Illustrations by Denver Gillen. [Limited Editions Club; signed by Gillen]

Illustrated edition of Up from Slavery, Black educator and race leader Booker T. Washington’s critically acclaimed autobiography, first published in 1901 and translated into 18..... Read More about Up from Slavery. With an Introduction by Booker T. Washington III and Illustrations by Denver...

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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 known for his important fin de siècle work of..... Read More about Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Pioneer of the Color Line

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Frederick Douglass Lif och Samtid. [Life and Times of Frederick Douglass]

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

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Corner Stores in the Middle Of the Block: That Urban Look. (Signed)

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

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From the Back of the Bus.

The author’s first book. Comic and satirical musings on various themes—America, Brotherhood Week, Freedom Rides, etc.—from comedian and civil rights activist, Dick Gregory (1932–2017). Gregory’s..... Read More about From the Back of the Bus

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Black Power, A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos.

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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3730582] [Countee Cullen; Arna Bontemps; Countee Cullen:] Come Rain or Come Shine. Edward Gross...

[Countee Cullen; Arna Bontemps; Countee Cullen:] Come Rain or Come Shine. Edward Gross presents St. Louis Woman.

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...

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A Nickel and A Prayer.

Autobiography of this nurse and lawyer noted for her commitment to help Black American women. A South Carolinian-native born to sharecropper parents, Jane Edna Hunter..... Read More about A Nickel and A Prayer

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3730006] A Century of Fiction by American Negroes 1853-1952. A Descriptive Bibliography....

A Century of Fiction by American Negroes 1853-1952. A Descriptive Bibliography. (Signed)

A very useful bibliography; this copy inscribed by the author. Philadelphia: Press of Maurice Jacobs, 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. (Signed

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