New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1906. Third Printing. Octavo (21cm); maroon vertically-ribbed cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt and in blind to spine and front cover; xiv,354pp, with photographic frontispiece portrait of Washington and 23 plates. Gentle sunning to spine, thin, partial crack to front hinge..... More
London: Race Today Collective, 1977. First Thus. Quarto (29.5cm); white wrappers illustrated in yellow and blue on the front cover, titled in black; priced 50p on the front cover; 23pp.; minor wear, a Fine copy, being a compilation of articles from 'Race Today' from Jul 1974 to Jun 1977. "Carnival..... More
Washington DC: Howard University, 1972. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (28cm); yellow wrappers, titled in brown; 217pp.; light rubbing only, Near Fine. Typed manuscript from the Department of History at Howard University. Includes lesson plans, activities, bibliographical information, questions and procedures. More
New Haven: Yale University Afro-American Cultural Center, 1971. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); white wrappers titled in black; 58pp.; illus.; light wear only, a Near Fine copy. PREMIER ISSUE- "Feature article: Self-Esteem and the Black American Future by Dr. James Comer. Rennaissance 2 a journal on the black experience, presenting scholarly..... More
[Baltimore, MD]: S.i., 1935. First Edition. A history of the rise and development of the Women's Parent Mite Missionary Society, one of the oldest auxiliary groups within the A.M.E. Church, established on May 18, 1874. Harris, the daughter of a pioneer missionary and the wife of one of its Presiding..... More
N.p. [San Francisco?]: S.i., 1956. First Edition. Complete text of King's 1956 address to the NAACP, delivered at a critical juncture in the midst of the ongoing Montgomery Bus Boycott, just a few weeks after the Federal Court ruling in Browder v. Gayle which declared Alabama's racial segregation laws for..... More
Birmingham, AL: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1965. First Edition. Detailed summary of the SCLC's 9th annual convention, held in Birmingham, Alabama from August 9-13, 1965. Contents include introductory greetings by SCLS Secretary Rev. Fred Shuttleworth, text of the annual report by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a detailed list of..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1976. First Edition. Authoritative analysis of the successes and failures of the Civil Rights movement by Rustin (1912-1987), a leading strategist of the movement, avowed pacifist, and member of the War Resisters League. He begins at the early years of the movement, with the formation..... More
New York: The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc., 1965. First Editions. Complete year of this long-running African American magazine and official publishing organ of the NAACP, conceived by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1910, which under his editorial hand quickly became "the most influential monthly magazine in black America...Throughout the years, the..... More
Atlanta: S.i., [1961]. Jailhouse letter by Leroy Washington, freedom rider, a member of the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights and a student at Brown Morris, a historically black college in Atlanta. Washington, together with Leon Green and 17 others, was arrested on February 7, 1961, for participating in a...... More
Easton, PA: Edu-Cards, 1970. First Edition. The first in a series of self-study cards produced by Edu-Cards (a division of Crayola Crayons), "designed to give teachers and students a broader and more factual statement on the Black American role in our nation's history. Its basic aim is to promote a...... More
New York: National Urban League, 1945. First Edition. Elusive issue of this sociological and literary journal produced by the National Urban League. Published between 1923-1949, Opportunity was significant for fostering many of the literary and artistic voices of the Harlem Renaissance period, as well as printing academic articles on the..... More
New York: National Urban League, 1943. First Edition. Elusive issue of this sociological and literary journal produced by the National Urban League. Published between 1923-1949, Opportunity was significant for fostering many of the literary and artistic voices of the Harlem Renaissance period, as well as printing academic articles on the..... More
New York: National Urban League, 1944. First Edition. Elusive issue of this sociological and literary journal produced by the National Urban League. Published between 1923-1949, Opportunity was significant for fostering many of the literary and artistic voices of the Harlem Renaissance period, as well as printing academic articles on the..... More
New York: National Urban League, 1945. First Edition. Elusive issue of this sociological and literary journal produced by the National Urban League. Published between 1923-1949, Opportunity was significant for fostering many of the literary and artistic voices of the Harlem Renaissance period, as well as printing academic articles on the..... More
New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1958. First Edition. Annual report detailing the major achievements of the organization, as well as milestones within the Civil Rights movement, in 1957. Contents touch on the enactment of the Civil Rights Act, violence at Little Rock, challenging the churches..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, 2006. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],375,[1]pp. Bookplate mounted to the half-title page, signed by Obama within a raised ruled border, and featuring a raised Presidential seal. Base of spine gently nudged, a few..... More
Jersey City, N.J. [n.d. but ca.1935-1945]. In 1867, Chicago industrialist George Pullman revolutionized rail travel with his famous Pullman Cars - essentially a hotel on wheels. When Pullman Cars were leased to a railroad, they came "equipped" with highly-trained porters to serve the travelers, most of them recently-freed slaves who..... More
New York: By the Author, 1957. Twenty-third Revised Edition. Rogers (1883-1966), born in Jamaica, was among the first African-American scholars to re-examine European history from an Afrocentric perspective. The current work, which went into many printings, provides a cross-section of his researches in the areas of the Arts, Ancient Civilizations..... More
Pittsburgh: Know, Inc., [1970]. Full text of the lecture Chisholm delivered at the Conference on Women's Employment in Chicago, Illinois, on January 24, 1970, an event sponsored by the Chicago chapter of NOW. Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005), a New York City Democratic Congresswoman, was the first major-party Black candidate to run..... More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1973. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 228pp. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Else clean, bright copy in very good dustwrapper. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 556pp. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Else a clean, sharp, tight copy in crisp, Fine dustwrapper. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 435pp; includes bibliography. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Else a clean, sharp, tight copy in clean, VG dustwrapper. More
[Washington, D.C.]: S.i., 1924. First Edition. Summary of details regarding the salary scale for the academic faculty of Howard University, presented to their Board of Trustees. Includes extracts and correspondence from faculty to members of the board, including the full text of Dean Kelly Miller's letter to Dr. Michael O...... More
Buffalo: Afro-American Historical Association of the Niagara Frontier, Inc., 2005. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm); printed card wrappers; 96pp. Light wear to extremities, else Near Fine. With contributions by James H. Rigali, John C. Walter, Michael Boston, Ralph Crowder, A.J. Williams-Myers, Melvin Douglass, and Charles Banner Haley. More
