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Short List: African-Americana # 7

African-Americana # 7

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Twenty-Two Months with “Uncle Sam”. Being the Experiences and Observations of a Negro Student...

Twenty-Two Months with “Uncle Sam”. Being the Experiences and Observations of a Negro Student Who Volunteered for Military Service Against the Central Powers from June, 1917 to April, 1919.

Rare to commerce and thinly-held by libraries, a record of the First World War experiences of 2nd Lieut. John Brother Cade (1894–1970) who served in..... More

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Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race. Edward W. Blyden, 1832–1912, 1808–1890,...

Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race.

Association copy of Pan-Africanist Edward W. Blyden’s Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race, an anthology of articles and speeches on colonization and outlining the appeal..... More

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Cotton Blossom Singers of the Piney Woods School in Mississippi]. Laurence C. Jones,...

[Cotton Blossom Singers of the Piney Woods School in Mississippi].

C.1950s Musical concert program broadsheet for the all-girl “The Cotton Blossom Singers” of Piney Woods School, an historically black boarding school in Mendenhall, Mississippi. The..... More

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Education for Negroes in Mississippi Since 1910. Charles H. Wilson Sr, 1905–?

Education for Negroes in Mississippi Since 1910.

Comprehensive history of elementary through college education for African Americans in Mississippi.  The history was written by Prof. Charles H. Wilson, Sr., formerly of Mississippi’s..... More

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Sun-Ray Hair Preparation…One of the Best Known for Colored People [advertising ephemera group]....

Sun-Ray Hair Preparation…One of the Best Known for Colored People [advertising ephemera group].

Ephemera group from the Sun-Ray Hair Preparation Co. of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, manufacturers and mail-order dealers of hair straightening products, here advertising to African Americans..... More

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The Child’s Anti-Slavery Book containing a Few Words about American Slave Children, and Stories...

The Child’s Anti-Slavery Book containing a Few Words about American Slave Children, and Stories of Slave Life.

Illustrated book of children’s anti-slavery stories including a short introduction concerning American slave children: “Children, you are free and happy. ... But are all the..... More

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The Negro in the American Rebellion, His Heroism and His Fidelity. William Wells Brown,...

The Negro in the American Rebellion, His Heroism and His Fidelity.

First history of African Americans in the Civil War written by abolitionist and novelist William Wells Brown, the author of the first novel written by..... More

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Sidelights on Negro Soldiers. Charles H. Williams, 1886–1978, Charles Holston Williams

Sidelights on Negro Soldiers.

Post-war study of African American soldiers in the First World War by Charles Holston Williams (1886–1978), noted African American author, black athletics organizer, and director..... More

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History of the American Negro in the Great World War. His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of...

History of the American Negro in the Great World War. His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe.

Comprehensive history of African American soldiers of the First World War, drawn from official War Department records and contemporary sources by African American poet and..... More

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The Negro in World War II, Vol. I, A Record of Achievement [cover title]. The Sentry Publishing Co

The Negro in World War II, Vol. I, A Record of Achievement [cover title].

Scarce Second World War periodical (all published?) dedicated to the military, air, and naval service of African Americans and “...the manner in which they acquitted..... More

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A Collection of 25 Selected Celebrated American Negro Spirituals. Transcriber and Arranger Hugo...

A Collection of 25 Selected Celebrated American Negro Spirituals.

Collection of 25 musical scores for American “Negro Spirituals” transcribed and arranged by American pianist, composer, arranger, and sheet music editor, Hugo Frey (1873–1952). The..... More

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The African Abroad or His Evolution in Western Civilization, Tracing His Development under...

The African Abroad or His Evolution in Western Civilization, Tracing His Development under Caucasian Milieu.

Two volume study of the African diaspora—with observations on the “Color Question” and the “Race Question,” by African American author, lecturer, and scholar William Henry..... More

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Young Senators [Promo Photo for Washington D.C. Funk and R&B Band]. Young Senators

Young Senators [Promo Photo for Washington D.C. Funk and R&B Band].

Represented by a Baltimore agent, an early promotional color photo for this Washington. D.C. band founded in 1965. Known as “The Emperors of Go-Go” the..... More

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The Cavalier. [Inscribed Copy]. George W. Cable, Howard Chandler Christy, 1844–1925,...

The Cavalier. [Inscribed Copy]

Inscribed and signed by the author, New Orleans-native George Washington Cable (1844–1925), a novel of the American Civil War set in the Confederacy. In full..... More

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The Negro Question. [with interesting African American provenance]. George W. Cable, J E. Bruce,...

The Negro Question. [with interesting African American provenance]

Toward the end of his literary career, New Orleans-native and Southern author George W. Cable turned from popular novels—e.g. Old Creole Days, Madame Delphine, and..... More

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Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces. Addie W. Hunton, Kathryn M. Johnson,...

Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces.

First hand account of two African American women serving in France during the First World War. The book documents their war-time service with the Y.W.C.A...... More

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The Silent South together with The Freedman’s Case in Equity and the Convict Lease System....

The Silent South together with The Freedman’s Case in Equity and the Convict Lease System.

Scarce first edition. One of 1500 copies printed. Noted work by this New Orleans native, discussing the “Negro Problem” and especially critical of the Southern..... More

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The Suppressed Book About Slavery! George W. Carleton, 1832–1901

The Suppressed Book About Slavery!

Prepared for publication in 1857, New York publisher (here editor) George W. Carleton entered this book in the federal District Court in 1864 claiming “The..... More

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Cannibals All! or, Slaves without Masters. George Fitzhugh, 1806–1881

Cannibals All! or, Slaves without Masters.

Economic, legal, and political defense of slavery in America by Virginia attorney George Fitzhugh (1806–1881). “The greatest pro-slavery attack on the North’s economy and society.”—Howes..... More

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From every mountainside, let freedom ring! Martin Luther King, Jr. [poster]. designer Carol...

From every mountainside, let freedom ring! Martin Luther King, Jr. [poster]

Inspirational poster featuring a photographic portrait of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. against a rainbow-like background.  The poster was designed by Carol..... More

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Ishmael Reed’s “Black Power in the Ghetto: two flags, a stepladder, and a megaphone”...

Ishmael Reed’s “Black Power in the Ghetto: two flags, a stepladder, and a megaphone” [within The East Village Other].

Single issue of the underground New York City newspaper, The East Village Other, featuring the headline article “Black Power in the Ghetto: two flags, a...... More

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Glimpse of Providence. A Black Boy’s Experience in Foreign Lands. Isaac Robbins

Glimpse of Providence. A Black Boy’s Experience in Foreign Lands.

Self-published memoir of African American Isaac Robbins of Alabama, a WWII veteran, small business owner, brick mason, and civil rights worker for the NAACP.  Robbins’..... More

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Negro Labor in the United States, 1850-1925. A Study in American Economic History. Charles H. Wesley

Negro Labor in the United States, 1850-1925. A Study in American Economic History.

Blockson: “The best known early study of the development and contribution of blacks in the field of labor. Wesley, (b. 1891), a former president of..... More

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How to Solve the Race Problem: The Proceedings of the Washington Conference on the Race Problem...

How to Solve the Race Problem: The Proceedings of the Washington Conference on the Race Problem in the United States.

Proceedings of a conference on the “Race Problem”—including rape, lynching, and segregation—held in 1903 in Washington, D.C. under the auspices of the National Sociological Society..... More

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Lyrics of the Hearthside. Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872–1906

Lyrics of the Hearthside.

Collected volume of poetry by writer Paul Laurence Dunbar published the year after his marriage to Alice Ruth Moore, to whom the book is dedicated..... More

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When Word is Given… A Report on Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and the Black Muslim World. Louis...

When Word is Given… A Report on Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and the Black Muslim World.

African American writer and social critic’s first-hand reporting on the Black Muslim movement in America. In 1959, Lomax introduced white Americans to the Black Muslim..... More

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Imposed Rebellion. James Williams

Imposed Rebellion.

1950s, segregation-era erotic novel set in Alabama written by an African American Marine on the theme of an interracial relationship between a Southern white woman..... More

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Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future. Atticus G. Haygood

Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future.

1883 edition. “One of the few moderate (although paternalistic and segregationist) pleas for justice to blacks in the New South, by a Methodist bishop and..... More

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