“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
– Frederick Douglass –
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
– Frederick Douglass –
![3725045] “Business is Booming in Italy, Members of a Negro Mortar Company of the 92nd Division...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3725045.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1533057246)
A compelling World War II combat photograph depicting African-American troops at the front. The images captures members of a mortar company of the 92nd Infantry..... Read More about “Business is Booming in Italy, Members of a Negro Mortar Company of the 92nd Division Praise...
![3724971] Rules and Regulations for the Government of Employees on Sycamore Plantation. A V....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3724971.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1719850926)
Unrecorded. An extraordinary Reconstruction-era broadside printed in New Orleans documenting a system that exploited freedmen sharecroppers working on the Sycamore Plantation in Concordia Parish. This..... Read More about Rules and Regulations for the Government of Employees on Sycamore Plantation
![3728968] St. Thomas Negroes — A Study of Personality and Culture. [Psychological Monographs,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3728968.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706666297)
Inscribed by the author on upper cover: “To Dr. Arthur Roper with regards of the writer.” A psychological and sociological study of African Americans living..... Read More about St. Thomas Negroes — A Study of Personality and Culture. [Psychological Monographs, Vol. 55, No. 5
![3734074] Blank check from Alfred A. Duckett, poet, journalist and speechwriter for Dr. Martin...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734074.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742851309)
Blank check from Alfred A. Duckett, the poet, journalist and speechwriter who helped craft Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and..... Read More about Blank check from Alfred A. Duckett, poet, journalist and speechwriter for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
![3729602] In the Cage. Eyewitness Accounts of the Freed Negro in Southern Society, 1877-1929....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729602.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1597766986)
Inscribed and signed by the author, a professor at Atlanta’s Morehouse College, at the 68th meeting of the ASALH in Detroit. A collection of historical..... Read More about In the Cage. Eyewitness Accounts of the Freed Negro in Southern Society, 1877-1929. (Signed
![3734684] Program of the 7th Biennial Convention Fourth District N.A.P.E. States of Alabama,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734684.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1741119748)
Amelia Boynton Robinson, a Tuskegee Institute graduate and key civil rights activist, spoke at this 1947 Selma, Alabama, convention. In the 1930s, she and her..... Read More about Program of the 7th Biennial Convention Fourth District N.A.P.E. States of Alabama, Louisiana,...
![3728185] A Side-Light on Anglo-American Relations, 1839-1858: Furnished by the Correspondence of...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3728185.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1545174088)
The Tappan Papers; correspondence between noted New York abolitionist Lewis Tappan and other important figures from the 19th-century anti-slavery movement. The present work is described..... Read More about A Side-Light on Anglo-American Relations, 1839-1858: Furnished by the Correspondence of Lewis...
![3734344] Paying the Southern War Claims [caption title]. Anon](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734344.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1736269819)
This rare, anonymous broadside from 1876 attacks Governor Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, by citing excerpts from Southern newspapers in Alabama, Georgia..... Read More about Paying the Southern War Claims [caption title
![3733480] Two 1968 wire press photographs of Robert Kennedy and others at the funeral services for...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733480.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1707771445)
The first photograph depicts Senators Robert Kennedy and Ted Kennedy arriving at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church amidst a bustling crowd, accompanied by police officers and..... Read More about Two 1968 wire press photographs of Robert Kennedy and others at the funeral services for Dr....
![3727987] Survey of Negro Colleges and Universities. Arthur Klein](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3727987.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1542213108)
Facsimile of the 1929 first edition of this massive work, for its time, providing a thorough reviews of all aspects (admissions, faculty, degrees granted, historical..... Read More about Survey of Negro Colleges and Universities
![3731995] Original 1916 Portrait of Douglass Roach of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Arthur Vidal Diehl](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731995.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1711907371)
A previously-unknown portrait of Douglas Roach (1909–1938), as a seven year-old Provincetown boy, by the Cape Cod artist Arthur Vidal Diehl. Described as a “lost..... Read More about Original 1916 Portrait of Douglass Roach of Provincetown, Massachusetts
![3734514] Negro History Bulletin Vol. 29 No 4. January, 1966. ASNLH](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734514.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1747344375)
This issue’s articles include Franklin Parker’s “Robert Clifton Weaver,” an insightful exploration of the first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Raymond Hodkinson’s “The Negro..... Read More about Negro History Bulletin Vol. 29 No 4. January, 1966
![3734511] Negro History Bulletin Vol. 35 No 7. November, 1972. Slaves and Slavery Issue. ASNLH](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734511.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1747339012)
This issue presented a scholarly array of articles examining African American slaves and slavery. Articles include Bill Belton’s “The Indian Heritage of Crispus Attucks,” Polly..... Read More about Negro History Bulletin Vol. 35 No 7. November, 1972. Slaves and Slavery Issue
![3734515] Negro History Bulletin Vol. 36 No 1. January, 1973. Performing Arts Issue. ASNLH](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734515.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1747338990)
This issue presented a scholarly array of articles examining African American history and cultural contributions through literature, theater, music, and education. Articles include Samuel A...... Read More about Negro History Bulletin Vol. 36 No 1. January, 1973. Performing Arts Issue
![3735008] The Negro History Bulletin. October 1958. Vol. XXII, No. 8. ASNLH](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735008.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1747344376)
Includes articles by Gilbert Voight (“South Carolina Negro Paradise” [Port Royal Experiment]), Earl Thorpe, Lawrence Howard (“A Note on New England Whaling and Africa Before..... Read More about The Negro History Bulletin. October 1958. Vol. XXII, No. 8
![3729345] Program of the Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting of The Association for the Study of Negro Life...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729345.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593122704)
Program of the 1971 annual meeting of The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), held that year at the Shoreham Hotel..... Read More about Program of the Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting of The Association for the Study of Negro Life and...
![3730476] Booker T. Washington – Oversized portrait issued by Carter G. Woodson and the...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730476.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1629834769)
(Note: this copy laminated, likely for a classroom setting.) An almost life-size portrait of Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), author, orator, and founder of the Tuskegee..... Read More about Booker T. Washington – Oversized portrait issued by Carter G. Woodson and the Associated...
![3730473] Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., the U.S. Army’s first Black general – Oversized...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730473.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1629834754)
Almost life-size portrait of Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., U.S.A. (1877–1970) who became the first Black army officer to attain a general’s rank in..... Read More about Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., the U.S. Army’s first Black general – Oversized portrait...
![3734124] Carter G. Woodson — Oversized Portrait Issued by Carter G. Woodson and the Associated...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734124.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1716405310)
An almost life-size portrait of Carter Godwin Woodson (1875–1950), the “Father of Black History” and founder of what is today the Association for the Study..... Read More about Carter G. Woodson — Oversized Portrait Issued by Carter G. Woodson and the Associated Publishers
![3736036] Frederick Douglass — Oversized Portrait Issued by Carter G. Woodson and the Associated...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3736036.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1765054896)
A nearly life-size portrait of Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)—famed abolitionist and orator—based on a photograph depicting him as an elder statesman. Founded in 1921 by Carter..... Read More about Frederick Douglass — Oversized Portrait Issued by Carter G. Woodson and the Associated Publishers
![3734849] George Washington Carver — Oversized Portrait Issued by Carter G. Woodson and the...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734849.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1743440831)
An almost life-size portrait of George Washington Carver (1864–1943), agricultural scientist, educator, and inventor, wearing a cravat and with his trademark flower in his lapel..... Read More about George Washington Carver — Oversized Portrait Issued by Carter G. Woodson and the Associated...
![3733406] [Prospectus:] Negro Musicians and Their Music by Maud Cuney-Hare. Associated Publishers](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733406.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1683235765)
Prospectus for Negro Musicians and Their Music published in 1936 by Carter Woodson’s Associated Publishers, the first firm devoted exclusively to publishing Black-themed books and..... Read More about Prospectus:] Negro Musicians and Their Music by Maud Cuney-Hare
![3730471] Ralph Bunche, Nobel Prize Winner — Oversized Portrait Issued by Carter G. Woodson and...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730471.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1629834739)
Almost life-size portrait of Ralph Bunche (1904–1971), political scientist, scholar, and diplomat. Bunche was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his diplomatic negotiations effecting an..... Read More about Ralph Bunche, Nobel Prize Winner — Oversized Portrait Issued by Carter G. Woodson and the...
![3731184] Map of the United States, Showing the Territory in Possession of the Federal Union,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731184.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1639167233)
An unusual 1864 Civil War map distinguishing territory controlled by the Federal Union from that remaining in possession of the Confederacy. Together, areas tinted purple..... Read More about Map of the United States, Showing the Territory in Possession of the Federal Union, January, 1864
![3734203] Bay-Bay Promotions—Presents a—Welcome Back Home! Persian Gulf Heroes with a Holiday...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734203.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724966134)
A broadside advertising an all-African American musical lineup for a July 4th holiday weekend concert dedicated to returning Gulf War veterans. The concert, hosted at..... Read More about Bay-Bay Promotions—Presents a—Welcome Back Home! Persian Gulf Heroes with a Holiday Blues...
