“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 –
Extensive, statistical study of African American school attendance, using the entire State of Delaware as the sample case. The investigation, which contrasts Black and White..... Read More about Negro School Attendance in Delaware. A Report to the State Board of Education of Delaware. Bureau...
Class photograph of then-segregated Champion Avenue Junior High School in Columbus, Ohio. Champion opened in 1909 as an all-Black elementary school. Despite protests from the..... Read More about Champion Avenue School, Class of 1847
Stanton treats the subject of scientific racism in 19th-century America as scientists held forth the idea that separate races were actually distinct species. How this..... Read More about The Leopard’s Spots. Scientific Attitudes toward Race in America, 1815-59
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
From the library of Fletcher Green, Southern Historian. An examination of President Abraham Lincoln’s familial, marital, and sympathetic ties to the American South and Southern..... Read More about Lincoln and the South
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Inscribed and signed by Benjamin Quarles, editor and a noted authority on African American history. With a 7-page introduction and single-page commentary by Quarles at..... Read More about Blacks on John Brown. [Inscribed and signed by Benjamin Quarles
A study of Philadelphia’s African American population, police, and the law, commissioned after a 1944 racial conflict involving a strike of workers of the Philadelphia..... Read More about Law Administration and Negro-White Relations in Philadelphia. A Study in Race Relations
Significantly expanded from the first edition, the most important book written by the esteemed historian John Hope Franklin. “[In 1947,] Alfred A. Knopf published his..... Read More about From Slavery to Freedom, A History of American Negroes. [Inscribed and signed by the author
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Autobiography of academic historian of Black America, civil rights activist and writer, John Hope Franklin. Franklin was “the first black historian to assume a full..... Read More about Mirror to America. The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. [inscribed by Franklin
Cover title continues: “Special Edition Prepared for Class Use.” A thorough study of the division of social classes of Southern African Americans within a caste..... Read More about Children of Bondage. The Personality Development of Negro Youth in the Urban South
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...
The North Carolina Chain Gang describes, in part, the life of chain gangs on the road, portable prison camps, and methods of organization and discipline..... Read More about The North Carolina Chain Gang: A Study of County Convict Road Work
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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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
This copy signed and inscribed by John Hope Franklin, the esteemed historian of Black American history, who wrote the Foreword. Alexander Crummell, Frederick Douglass, Anna..... Read More about Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life. [Signed and Inscribed by John Hope...
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Separately issued circular reprinting historian and academic John Hope Franklin’s essay expressing alarm over the “decrease in minorities in the teaching profession…at a time when..... Read More about The Desperate Need for Black Teachers. A Special Appeal from John Hope Franklin. [caption title
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Proceedings and anti-slavery resolutions adopted by the 1848 Ohio Free Territory Convention of the newly formed “Free Soil” Party. The party met in Columbus to..... Read More about Free Soil Party] Addresses and Proceedings of the State Independent Free Territory Convention of...
Anti-slavery speech to a Whig convention by Josiah Quincy, Sr., former Federalist congressman, mayor of Boston, and president of Harvard College. Presented by Quincy to..... Read More about Speech delivered by Hon. Josiah Quincy, Senior, before the Whig State Convention, assembled at...
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Original 16mm public health film starring an all-Black cast and directed at young African American audiences to encourage tuberculosis testing and treatment. In this drama..... Read More about Let My People Live. [Original 16mm film for 1938 WPA Tuskegee Institute Movie
The Lecompton Constitution proposed that the state of Kansas protect its slaveholders and extinguish the rights of African Americans from its bill of rights. Here..... Read More about Proceedings of the Union Anti-Lecompton Mass Meeting of the Citizens of Erie County, N.Y. Opposed...
Scarce. Autobiography of Lewis Garnett Jordan (1853–1939) which describes his life of enslavement before the War and just after. Born in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Jordan’s..... Read More about On Two Hemispheres: Bits from the Life Story of Lewis G. Jordan, as Told by Himself
“Free Trade, Free Labor, Free Soil, Free Speech and Free Men.” Albany pamphlet issued as a newspaper “Extra” of the Albany Atlas, publishing the anti-slavery..... Read More about Herkimer Convention. The Voice of New York! Proceedings of the Herkimer Mass Convention of Oct....
“Slavery was a social and an economic institution of such power that it sustained and extended an economic system whose demands went far to determine..... Read More about Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia
Biography of abolitionist Thomas Garrett (1789–1871) of Wilmington, Delaware, Underground Railroad Station Master and working colleague of celebrated Underground Railroad Conductor Harriet Tubman (c.1822–1913). Includes..... Read More about Station Master on the Underground Railroad. The Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett
Study of the origin, growth and distribution of Free African Americans and the character of free Black communities by pioneering Black sociologist, E. Franklin Frazier..... Read More about The Free Negro Family, A Study of Family Origins Before the Civil War
