First edition of Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s final book—containing the important chapter on “Black Power.” King’s book is about non-violence in the face of growing..... Read More about Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
First three of four volumes of collected essays, addresses, sermons, and letters by and to anti-slavery and civil rights activist Francis J. Grimké (1850–1937), an..... Read More about The Works of Francis J. Grimké [First three volumes of four-volume set
Scarce first edition of Harlan’s analysis of “...the story of public education in the four Southern seaboard states [Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia]..... Read More about Separate and Unequal: Public School Campaigns and Racism in the Southern Seaboard States, 1901-1915
Rare to commerce in all editions and one of the nicest copies we’ve handled to date. Controversial novel in favor of lynching, written by Southern..... Read More about African-Americans, Race, Lynchings:] Smoking Flax
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 issue carried the identifying characteristics of the magazine; a pointed or inspirational poem by Garvey on the front wrap (in this example in “The..... Read More about The Black Man. A Monthly Magazine of Negro Thought and Opinion
Very scarce first edition of Frazier’s important sociological study, winner of the Anisfield Award (1939) as the most significant contribution to race relations for 1939..... Read More about The Negro Family in the United States
Subtitle: “King of the Twelve-String Guitar Players of the World, Long-Time Convict in the Penitentiaries of Texas and Louisiana.” The oral autobiography of Huddie Ledbetter..... Read More about Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly
Popular ante-bellum minstrel song Uncle Ned, here issued as a post-Civil War penny song sheet. The song-poem comprises three quatrains and a quatrain chorus. Although..... Read More about Uncle Ned. As Sung by de Colored Society in General
Two programs for the 48th and 49th anniversaries of the Star Social Club, a private African American organization in West Chester, Chester County Pennsylvania. The..... Read More about 1944–1945, Two Anniversary Dinner Programs of the African American Star Social Club of West...
A specific study of the “legal, social, and economic history of the Pennsylvania negro in his rise from slavery to freedom.” Winner of the Justin..... Read More about The Negro in Pennsylvania. Slavery - Servitude - Freedom, 1639-1861
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
Unrecorded and unknown photograph of this young black American preacher. Washington preached as early as eight years old as “Little J.L.” and garnered the attention..... Read More about L.L. Washington Boy Preacher
Autographed by Richard Wright on the dedication page; published in the same year as Wright’s magnum opus Native Son which would become an instant bestseller..... Read More about How “Bigger” Was Born. The Story of Native Son, one of the most significant novels of our...
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Study of African-American psychology and religion and their influence on the slave songs or “spirituals” of the South by this noted black historiographer, academic, and..... Read More about African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation Copy
Rare Final Issue of Marcus Garvey’s The Black Man, begun in 1933, ending with this issue in June, 1939, one year before his death. While..... Read More about The Black Man. A Monthly Magazine of Negro Thought and Opinion
Dr. Olivia Pearl Stokes (1916–2002), was an ordained Baptist minister, author, religious educator, and civil rights activist. She was the first African American woman to..... Read More about Against the Tide. [Inscribed by Olivia P. Stokes, Civil Rights Activist and African-American...
A biography of one of the most divisive figures in South Carolina’s history: Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847–1918) a.k.a. Pitchfork Ben, white supremacist governor of South..... Read More about Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian
Broadside advertising regular performances of African American “Plantation Spirituals” at South Carolina’s Cypress Gardens and sung “...entirely by local colored people connected with Dean Hall..... Read More about Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of South...
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Rev. C.C. Dunlap was born in 1860 in Clinton, South Carolina. He attended Allen University in Columbia for six years and eventually served in Abbeville..... Read More about Rev. C. C. Dunlap, D. D. [African Methodist Episcopal Church pastor
An unusual self-published work, inscribed and signed by the author, intersecting the culture, music, and life of African Americans with the world of Jungian psychology..... Read More about Slave Religion, Spirituals, and C.G. Jung
Association Copy of the author’s second book; this copy belonging to Levi Jenkins Coppin (1848–1924), missionary and educator, with his signature and dated by him..... Read More about The Negro and the White Man. [Association Copy
In this boxing rematch, Georgian-native Sugar Ray Robinson defeated England’s Randy Turpin a.k.a. “The Leamington Licker” on September 12, 1951 at the Polo Grounds in..... Read More about The Supreme Fight Sensation of All Time! Sugar Ray Robinson vs Randolph Turpin… [opening lines...
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Entirely hand-lettered promotional poster for a Black History Month school program celebrating civil rights, signed by leading African American activists, Rosa L. Parks, Fred D...... Read More about Signed by Rosa Parks et al.:] West Chester School District Committee for Black History Month /...
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Entirely hand-lettered promotional poster for a Black History Month school program celebrating civil rights, signed by leading African American activists, Rosa L. Parks, Fred D...... Read More about Signed by Rosa Parks et al.:] West Chester School District Committee for Black History Month /...
