“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 –
Italian-American Achille Onofri, was an acrobat and contortionist who had met trapeze artist Millie Cook in Havana, married her, and then moved to Philadelphia with..... Read More about 1886 American Prison Art by an Italian-American Circus Performer Incarcerated for Murder,...
Proceedings of a conference on race held by The Negro Christian Student Conference with representatives from over 85 HBCUs from 17 states and the District..... Read More about The New Voice in Race Adjustments. Addresses and Reports presented at The Negro Christian Student...
A psychological and sociological study of African Americans living in St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The text discusses slavery, the “psychological environment” of..... Read More about St. Thomas Negroes — A Study of Personality and Culture. [Psychological Monographs, Vol. 55, No. 5
Reviews from the jacket: “...an excellent job of not only telling what happened, but even more important, why things happened as they did…Race Riot presents..... Read More about Race Riot
Author’s Copy. Thirty-six page scholarly paper on Quakers and slavery by Haverford College history professor and later librarian, Allen Clapp Thomas (1846–1920), read in abstract..... Read More about The Attitude of the Society of Friends Toward Slavery in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth...
Inscribed and signed by John Hope Franklin and Benjamin Quarles, both Black Americans and distinguished authors and historians of African American history. Both Franklin and..... Read More about The Segregation Era 1863-1954. A Modern Reader. [inscribed by John Hope Franklin and Benjamin...
Textbook anthology of poems and essays by Black authors, expressing the attitudes of the Black community. The book is illustrated in black and white with..... Read More about Black Perspectives
Inscribed an signed by the author, a professor at Morehouse College in Atlanta, to a Black bibliophile at the 68th meeting of the ASALH in..... Read More about In the Cage. Eyewitness Accounts of the Freed Negro in Southern Society, 1877-1929. [inscribed copy
Founded in 1816, the American Colonization Society promoted the migration of free Black Americans to Africa. The society’s Thirty-Fifth Annual Report publishes remarks by its..... Read More about Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the American Colonization Society…January 20th, 1852. To which is...
Angelina W. Grimké (1880–1958) was an African-American female poet and reclusive celibate lesbian who was born into the noted biracial Grimké family, with its strong..... Read More about Rachel. A Play in Three Acts
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...
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This rare, anonymous broadside is an attack in 1876 upon Governor Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, by excerpting from Southern newspapers from..... Read More about Paying the Southern War Claims [caption title
Biography of this famed Massachusetts abolitionist written by Archibald Grimké, civil rights leader, high-level officer in the NAACP, and a noted lawyer. The son of..... Read More about William Lloyd Garrison: The Abolitionist
The authors document how Black soldiers in World War I were the victims of discriminatory draft, training, assignment, and leadership policies and were recruited despite..... Read More about The Unknown Soldiers, Black American Troops in World War I
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
First Edition of this massive work, for its time, providing a thorough reviews of all aspects (admissions, faculty, degrees granted, historical and/or general overview etc.)..... Read More about Survey of Negro Colleges and Universities
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...
Associated Publishers, Inc. of Washington, D.C., were a Black publishing concern founded by the “Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson. Beginning by at least..... Read More about 22 Portraits Prominent African Americans to Display at Home or School, possibly from the “One...
Captioned the “Historian and Antislavery Lecturer of the Crisis”, this reprinted portrait commemorates Black abolitionist William Wells Brown (c.1814–1884), author of the 1847 best-seller, Narrative..... Read More about Portrait Print of Black Abolitionist and Writer, William Wells Brown, issued by Associated...
Program for the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, formerly the Association for the Study of Negro Life..... Read More about 69th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History Inc.,...
Authoritative and well-documented study of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and its role in the modern civil rights movement. In the 1960s, CORE led..... Read More about CORE, A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968
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1870s broadside issued by the Ohio Colonization Society promoting colonization of African Americans in Liberia. The society was formed in 1827 to encourage Black Ohioans..... Read More about A Two Thousand Fold Agency. [Liberia, Africa Colonization Schemes
Small broadside promoting an all-African American musical line-up for a July 4th holiday weekend musical concert for returning Gulf War veterans. Appearing at the concert—held..... Read More about Bay-Bay Promotions—Presents a—Welcome Back Home! Persian Gulf Heroes with a Holiday Blues...
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American Civil War historian and author Bell I. Wiley (1906–1980) taught for 40 years at various Southern colleges and universities including the University of Mississippi..... Read More about 1938–1965 Incoming Letters and Papers of American Civil War Historian Bell I. Wiley
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C.1920s photograph taken in front of St. Luke’s Union American Methodist Episcopal (U.A.M.E.) Church in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The photograph, taken by long-time West Chester..... Read More about St. Lukes U.A.M.E. Church, West Chester, Pennsylvania Photograph
