“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 –
![3733146] A World in Shadow. The Free Black in Antebellum South Carolina. Marina Wikramanayake](/pictures/thumb/3733146_1.jpg?v=1675296724)
The author discusses how Free Blacks in South Carolina pre-American Civil War were allowed to remain free due to their tremendous economic output and presents..... Read More about A World in Shadow. The Free Black in Antebellum South Carolina
![3733124] Jazz New York. [Randall’s Island Jazz festival, August, 1956]. Don Friedman, Ken Joffe](/images/noimage-req.png)
Essays and photographs published on the occasion of the 1956 Randall’s Island Jazz Festival with performances by Billie Holliday, Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, Count Basie..... Read More about Jazz New York. [Randall’s Island Jazz festival, August, 1956
![3733100] Maple Leaf Rag by King of Ragtime Writers ... Scott Joplin. Scott Joplin](/pictures/thumb/3733100_1.jpg?v=1675296440)
Born into a family of freed slaves in Texas, Scott Joplin was an accomplished pianist and American composer, widely considered to be the “King of..... Read More about Maple Leaf Rag by King of Ragtime Writers ... Scott Joplin
Examination of the politics of states’ rights and slavery in the Border States during the first year of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and the American Civil..... Read More about Lincoln and the Border States. [offprint from The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1,...
![3733081] Reminiscences of West Point in the Olden Time, Derived from Various Sources, and...](/pictures/thumb/3733081_1.jpg?v=1674597996)
First edition. The first forty pages are devoted to a history of West Point, followed by a complete register, by year, starting with 1802, of..... Read More about Reminiscences of West Point in the Olden Time, Derived from Various Sources, and Register of...
![3732968] Richard Allen, Apostle of Freedom. Charles H. Wesley, 1891–1987, Charles Harris...](/pictures/thumb/3732968_1.jpeg?v=1674243916)
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
![3732965] The Negro History Bulletin. February 1954. Vol. XVII, No. 5. [Carter G. Woodson]....](/pictures/thumb/3732965_1.jpg?v=1674243913)
Includes articles by Bernard Mandel (“Anti-Slavery and the Southern Workers”), Marguerite Cartwright, and Mrs. Vivian R. Beavers (“Teaching the History of the Negro in Secondary..... Read More about The Negro History Bulletin. February 1954. Vol. XVII, No. 5. [Carter G. Woodson
![3732963] The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I, No. 4, October 1916. Carter G. Woodson,...](/pictures/thumb/3732963_1.jpg?v=1674243913)
Authors in this early issue include C.E. Pierre, Alice Dunbar-Nelson (“People of Color in Louisiana, Part I”), Wm. T. McKinney (on the defeat of secessionists..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I, No. 4, October 1916
![3732916] The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XXXIV, No. 4, October 1949. Carter G. Woodson,...](/pictures/thumb/3732916_1.jpg?v=1672776458)
Authors in this issue include Leonard Bernstein (“The Participation of Negro Delegates in the Constitutional Convention of 1868 in North Carolina”); Joseph H. Taylor (“Populism..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XXXIV, No. 4, October 1949
![3732915] The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XXXIV, No. 3, July 1949. Carter G. Woodson,...](/pictures/thumb/3732915_1.jpg?v=1672776458)
Authors in this issue include Williston H. Lofton (“Northern Labor and the Negro during the Civil War”); Sidney Kaplan (“The Miscegenation Issue in the Election..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XXXIV, No. 3, July 1949
![3732907] The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, April 1947. Carter G. Woodson,...](/pictures/thumb/3732907_1.jpg?v=1672776458)
Authors in this issue include Charles H. Wesley (“Negro Suffrage in the Period of Constitution-Making, 1787-1865”); Herbert Aptheker (“The Negro in the Union Navy”); Lawrence..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, April 1947
![3732904] The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XXVII, No. 3, July 1942. Carter G. Woodson,...](/pictures/thumb/3732904_1.jpg?v=1672776457)
Authors in this issue include Luther P. Jackson (“Virginia Negro Soldiers and Seamen in the American Revolution”); Frank J. Klingberg; Harold Courlander; and Ronald V...... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XXVII, No. 3, July 1942
This issue leads with an article by Benjamin Quarles on Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, signed by Quarles. Other authors seen in this issue..... Read More about Benjamin Quarles: Signed:] “The Breach between Douglass and Garrison” in The Journal of Negro...
First edition (preceding its publication in book-form) of this important monograph on the role of African Americans during South Carolina’s Reconstruction-era. In 1922 Taylor [Alrutheus..... Read More about The Negro in South Carolina during the Reconstruction [in:] The Journal of Negro History, Vol....
![3732900] The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XIII, No. 3, July 1928. Carter G. Woodson,...](/pictures/thumb/3732900_1.jpg?v=1672776456)
Authors in this issue include N. Andrew N. Claven; W. Sherman Savage on the history of Blacks in the Pacific Northwest; and Jean Trepp’s article..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XIII, No. 3, July 1928
Introduction by Archibald Rutledge. With photographs by Carl Julien. Photos and poems that document the songs and daily life of the “gullah Negroes” of South..... Read More about The Song of the Cotton Picker
![3732913] The Negro History Bulletin. October 1958. Vol. XXII, No. 8. Association for the Study of...](/pictures/thumb/3732913_1.jpg?v=1671127322)
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
![3732912] The Negro History Bulletin. April 1962. Vol. XXV, No. 7. Association for the Study of...](/pictures/thumb/3732912_1.jpg?v=1671138422)
Includes articles by Charlotte Kendrick Brooks, Ernest C. Tate (“Wit of James Weldon Johnson”), Kenneth Faris (“A Small Portrait of Richard Wright”), Horace Montgomery on..... Read More about The Negro History Bulletin. April 1962. Vol. XXV, No. 7
![3732741] [The Rumble in the Jungle] George Foreman Muhammad Ali Championship Fight. M M. Drake Jr](/pictures/thumb/3732741_1.jpg?v=1670717825)
Promotional item for the famous 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle” championship boxing match that pitted Muhammad Ali against George Foreman in Zaire. The fight was..... Read More about The Rumble in the Jungle] George Foreman Muhammad Ali Championship Fight
![3732737] The Fight. Hagler Hearns. Top Rank and Caesars Present World Middleweight Championship....](/pictures/thumb/3732737_1.jpg?v=1670281869)
This boxing classic was known as The War, the brutal fighting lasted just over eight minutes. “Commentator Al Michaels uttered the famous line, ‘It didn’t..... Read More about The Fight. Hagler Hearns. Top Rank and Caesars Present World Middleweight Championship. Monday,...
![3732736] Hagler vs. Leonard. The Super Fight. Top Rank, Inc., Budweiser, Caesars Palace Presents...](/pictures/thumb/3732736_1.jpg?v=1670281869)
A scarce “official” program from a high spot in American boxing: the 1987 boxing match between Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard. This world..... Read More about Hagler vs. Leonard. The Super Fight. Top Rank, Inc., Budweiser, Caesars Palace Presents World...
![3732684] Henry Ossawa Tanner. Dewey F. Mosby](/pictures/thumb/3732684_1.jpg?v=1670533605)
Profusely illustrated, an important exhibition catalog on Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first Black American artist to attain international distinction. Born in Pennsylvania, Tanner is known..... Read More about Henry Ossawa Tanner
![3732626] The Christiana Riot and The Treason Trials of 1851, An Historical Sketch. [within Papers...](/pictures/thumb/3732626_1.jpg?v=1666823950)
Hensel’s account of the Christiana Riot, an incident of African American-led armed resistance which took place in 1851 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, just over the..... Read More about The Christiana Riot and The Treason Trials of 1851, An Historical Sketch. [within Papers Read...
From the 1946 publisher’s catalog: “This is a book for those who want to know what really happens when, in circumstances of enormous complexity and..... Read More about Black Workers and the New Unions
“In this book Olmsted revealed that he considered slavery a very undesirable institution, although he cautioned against immediate abolition. Since this was the last of..... Read More about A Journey in the Back Country. In the Winter of 1853-4. (Two Volumes
