“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 –
Copy photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, the evening before his assassination, with his aide Jesse Jackson. Jackson..... Read More about Photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, the day before his assassination,...
Signed by Allan Rohan Crite (1910–2007) on the title page, below which the illustrator has added his cyphered initials. An inscription on the front free..... Read More about Were You There When They Crucified My Lord, A Negro Spiritual in Illustrations by Allan Rohan...
Publicity photograph of the hip-hop duo Da-Lite and Kool Keem who performed as Better Knowledge. Based on the contact telephone numbers, it appears that the..... Read More about Publicity Photograph for Hip-Hop Artists Da-Lite and Kool Keem performing as Better Knowledge,...
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
Well-illustrated program for the Black women’s beauty contest or “Calendar Girl Pageant” sponsored by The Combination, an African American magazine published in Oakland California. The..... Read More about The Combination Calendar Girl Pageant presents 6th Annual The Twelve Choice of Beauty...
An important survey of African-American art with exhaustive text to accompany 147 plates, 32 in full color and 115 in black and white, all illustrating..... Read More about Two Centuries of Black American Art
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The burning and capture of Washington, D.C. by British troops during the War of 1812 was a bitter blow to the young American Republic. British..... Read More about The Burning of Washington, D.C. in the War of 1812] National Intelligencer, Five Issues: Monday,...
One of a small handful of titles authored by this historically significant Black American attorney and Congressman from North Carolina: “As a well-educated veteran politician..... Read More about Defense of the Negro Race — Charges Answered. Speech of Hon. George H. White, of North...
Autograph Note Signed by militant abolitionist, politician, and social activist Gerrit Smith (1797–1874) and addressed to a “Mr. [or] Wm. Brice.” that reads, in part..... Read More about 1858 Autograph Note Signed by Abolitionist Gerrit Smith of New York Mourning the Death of His...
Scarce compilation of sermons by Rev. Henry Kuhns Spearman (1875–1928), late pastor of Bethel A.M.E. Church in Harlem in New York City. Bethel A.M.E. was..... Read More about Soul Magnets. Twelve Sermons from New Testament Texts
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
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Full-length portrait photograph of Drum Major George S. Beale of the 68th Regiment, U.S. Colored Infantry. Beale is shown in uniform, holding a sword and..... Read More about CDV Photograph of Drum Major George S. Beale, 68th Regiment U.S. Colored Infantry
Rare broadside advertising this African-American albino quartet, shown performing in a minstrel array, playing the bones, the fiddle, the banjo and the tambourine. The quartet..... Read More about The Four Snow-White Albino Boys. Born of Negro Parents! As they appear in their unrivaled musical...
One year after the 1967 publication of William Styron’s controversial novel of an 1831 slave rebellion, Confessions of Nat Turner, a lecture by the Marxist..... Read More about Herbert Aptheker ... Speaking On… Styron’s “Confessions of Nat Turner” Myth or Reality?...
Autograph Edition of this “collection of authentic stories of Negro life in South Carolina” based upon African-American fables and songs told to this white folklorist..... Read More about Congaree Sketches. Scenes from Negro Life in the Swamps of the Congaree and Tales by Tad and Scip...
Biography and study of the works of artist Robert S. Duncanson (1821–1872), African American landscape painter, part of the second generation of the Hudson Valley..... Read More about Robert S. Duncanson: 19th Century Black Romantic Painter
![The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with Haiti 1776-1891. [Inscribed Copy]. Rayford W....](/pictures/thumb/3728759_1.jpg?v=1599682811)
Warmly inscribed by the author to James Phinney Baxter III, historian, academic, Pulitzer Prize-winner for history. An exhaustive study of this topic; “This is the..... Read More about The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with Haiti 1776-1891. [Inscribed Copy
Authoritative critique of the Black intelligentsia by a prominent Black academic. The Crisis offers a powerful précis of black politics since 1945, which Cruse saw..... Read More about The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual
Important state-by-state, county-by-county directory of free Black heads of families in 1830 with a 53-page introduction by Carter G. Woodson—“The Father of Black History.” The..... Read More about Free Negro Heads of Families in the United States in 1830 together with a Brief Treatment of the...
Significant biography of Paul Cuffe (1759–1817), Massachusetts freeman, Wealthy shipping entrepreneur, and Pan-Africanist. Cuffe visited Africa “...where he formed the mercantile-oriented Friendly Society of Sierra..... Read More about Rise to Be a People: A Biography of Paul Cuffe
History of the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage founded in Philadelphia in 1775, the first American abolition society. The..... Read More about The First Abolition Society in the United States
Black American history as imagined by this Detroit, Michigan production outfit and issued, in part, to advertise and market Pepsi-Cola. The ambitious album aimed to..... Read More about Adventures in Negro History. [recording album
First edition of this economic study of Black workers in New York City by sociologist and social worker George Edmund Haynes (1880–1960), a co-founder and..... Read More about The Negro at Work in New York City, A Study in Economic progress
Consisting of: 18 offprints and reprints of articles from scholarly journals; 4 pamphlets written by or concerning Franklin; 2 prospectuses for books he wrote; 3..... Read More about 1945–2003, Collection of Offprints, Reprints, Pamphlets by John Hope Franklin, Academic and...
Author’s Master’s Thesis at the University of Virginia, proposed as an exploratory study of the topic. The thesis was published by the university as one..... Read More about The Negro in Charlottesville and Albemarle County
