Item 221028Portrait photograph of Ruby Dee.
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New York: September 25, 1962. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Ruby Dee Add to Wish List
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New York: September 25, 1962. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Ruby Dee Add to Wish List
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New York: November 15, 1961. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Ruby Dee Add to Wish List
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New York: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, [1960]. This publication was in response to the request for a condensed and less technical version of "Psychiatric Aspects of School Desegregation" Read More Item Details for Emotional Aspects of School Desegregation. A Report by Psychiatrists Add to Wish List
Item #31950
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Boston: circa 1879. This important image was used as the frontispiece to Douglass's third autobiography, Life and Times (Hartford:1881) and was sold at his lectures. "Douglass at his most statesmanlike" (Stauffer). Like the example at the Library Company of Philadelphia, the present on an unmarked mount. Read More Item Details for [Cabinet card portrait photograph of Frederick Douglass] Add to Wish List
Item #352781
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Washington, D.C: February 9, 1885. Although the Society of Friends were among the first to condemn slavery on moral and religious grounds in the second half of the 18th century, by the rise of the abolition movement in the 1830s its stance became more complicated. Realizing the divisiveness of the..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter signed, to an unnamed recipient, responding to his query about the role of the Society of Friends in the abolition movement Add to Wish List
Item #368493
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New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton and Mulligan. New York: 25 Park Row.-Auburn: 107 Genesee-st, 1855. First Edition. Douglass published his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life..., in 1845 in which he described his years in captivity in Maryland and his eventual escape and involvement in the abolition movement. "Published..... Read More Item Details for My Bondage and My Freedom: Part I - Life as a Slave, Part II - Life as a Freeman...with an Introduction by Dr.James M'Cune Smith Add to Wish List
Item #368610
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Boston: The Anti-Slavery Office, No. 25 Cornhill, 1845. First edition. The first edition of the first book by Frederick Douglass, describing his years in captivity in Maryland and his eventual escape and involvement in the abolition movement. "Published seven years after the author escaped slavery. It is probably the best..... Read More Item Details for Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself Add to Wish List
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Washington, D.C: Gibson Bros, 1886. First edition. "...In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line..." This pamphlet comprises Douglass' speech at Louisville Kentucky on September 24, 1883 at a Convention of Colored Men, a speech in Washington, D.C. on April 16, 1885 commemorating..... Read More Item Details for Three Addresses on the Relations Subsisting between the White and Colored People of the United States Add to Wish List
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Boston: Bela Marsh, 25 Cornhill. New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853. First edition. The author was convicted of aiding slaves to escape from Washington D.C.--Blockson. Read More Item Details for Personal Memoir of … For Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (For Charity’s Sake) in Washington Jail. Including a Narrative of the Voyage and Capture of the Schooner Pearl Add to Wish List
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1857. First Edition. "When the Wilmot Proviso against slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico produced angry debates, Benton denounced the proviso, but he also refused to support the southern demand for territorial expansion. He insisted that slavery where it existed was in no..... Read More Item Details for Historical and Legal Examination of that part of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the The Dred Scott Case, which Declares the Unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise Act Add to Wish List
Item #345827
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, [February, 1906]. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to W.E.B. Du Bois. W.E.B. Du Bois's Copy. W.E.B. Du Bois's copy of an important work in the historiography of Reconstruction and the immediate post-Reconstruction period, including a lengthy quote from the Souls of..... Read More Item Details for The Negro and the Nation. A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement Add to Wish List
Item #368195
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Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1898. 55th Congress, 2d Session, House Doc. No. 206, Parts 1-6. Scarce Early Sociological Study by Du Bois. "At the first Atlanta Conference held at the university in May 1896, [George G.] Bradford described his plans to study the physical and moral condition of city..... Read More Item Details for The Negroes of Farmville, Virginia: A Social Study ... [within Bulletin of the Department of Labor, No. 14 – January 1898] Add to Wish List
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New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1926. Read More Item Details for The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, with introduction to “Lyrics of Lowly Life” by W. D. Howells Add to Wish List
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New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1898. Early edition. Read More Item Details for Lyrics of Lowly Life Add to Wish List
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New York: International Association of Newspapers and Authors, 1901. Dunbar as a novelist avoided the problems associated with negroes in his life time, this is clearly demonstrated in his first novel, The Uncalled, which to many was " a mediocre novel about whites." Dark Symphony Negro Literature in America p...... Read More Item Details for The Uncalled Add to Wish List
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New Haven: Sidney's Press, 1810. First edition. Black Female Charity Schools. Dwight's sermon on the importance of charity, especially the Charity Societies, citing one in particular that was of interest to him. A school that was established in New Haven to educate black female children. Dwight emphasized the responsibility to..... Read More Item Details for The Charitable Blessed. A Sermon Preached in the First Church in New Haven August 8, 1810 Add to Wish List
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Washington; Princeton; New York: War Department; Opinion Research Corporation; General Electric Company, 1947-1964. These materials document changing aspects of race and employment in America from the immediate postwar years, when separate Negro units were organized in the armed forces, through the optimism of the early 1960s. Read More Item Details for Lot of 6 publications on equal rights and employment issues, including Army Talk 170; The Trend since 1944 on … The Color Line in Industry, with Executive Summary; The Controversy over … Equal Rights for Negroes (2 copies) with Executive Summary; and At Work in Industry Today Add to Wish List
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United States: Civil Rights Congress, 1951. First Edition. One of 500 copies signed by Fast, Robeson and Patterson. Signed by Fast, Robeson, and Patterson. The copy in cloth is signed by Howard Fast, William L. Patterson (who wrote the introduction) and Paul Robeson (the dedicatee). The classic account of the..... Read More Item Details for Peekskill: USA. A personal experience Add to Wish List
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New York: The Blue Heron Press, 1952. First edition with Du Bois Foreword. Read More Item Details for Freedom Road. With a Foreword by W.E.B. Du Bois Add to Wish List
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1878. The upper wrapper dated 1877, though the title dated 1878. Read More Item Details for Cabin and Plantation Songs as Sung by the Hampton Students Add to Wish List
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[Los Angeles]: [1972]. Casting Call for the Title Role of an Iconic Blaxploitation Film. The broadside is from the files of Cassius Weathersby, who headed the open auditions held in seven American cities in the late summer and fall of 1972. Weathersby was tasked with liaising with radio stations, local..... Read More Item Details for Film Talent Search for a Black Beauty Aspiring to the Title Role in "Cleopatra Jones" . Add to Wish List
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[Tokyo: Self-published, 1977]. First edition, one of 200. Scarce photobook of Harlem in 1969, inscribed. Scarce self-published photobook capturing youth culture in Greenwich Village and Harlem in 1969, by Austrian photographer Hans Fleischner (1948– ), and inscribed by him. Fleischner, who studied photography in Vienna in the mid-60s before coming..... Read More Item Details for Zero. An Introduction into Seeing Add to Wish List
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New York: D. Appleton, 1854. First edition. Foote's own account of his experience as commander of the Perry off the African coast in the early 1850's, where his dogged attempts to suppress the African slave trade (illegal then under American law) became legendary. His impassioned account here did much to..... Read More Item Details for Africa and the American Flag Add to Wish List
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New York: Aperutue Foundation, 2014. First Edition. Inscribed to Emma Amos. With essays by Dennis C. Dickerson and Laura Wexler. Also includes an interview by Dawoud Bey. Inscribed on half-tiitle: "For Emma Amos – Thank you for helping change my life. Love always, Latoya Ruby Frazier." Emma Amos (1937-2020) was..... Read More Item Details for The Notion of Family Add to Wish List
Item #345641
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Chelsea, [Mass.]: Published by the Author, 1890. Fishing in White and Green Mountains, Rangely, Marha's Vineyard, Adirondacks in the 1880s. Read More Item Details for My Summer Vacations Add to Wish List
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