1972. An excellent archive of material related to the casting of the title role of the iconic blaxploitation... Read More about Archive related to the casting of the landmark film, Cleopatra Jones
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New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co, 1892. First Edition. The second in the publisher’s series “American Reformer,” edited by Carlos Martyn; the first was the authors biographry of William Lloyd Garrison. Read More about The Life of Charles Sumner. The Scholar in Politics
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Hackensack, New Jersey: Wednesday Morning, Nov. 3, 1824. Usal Meeker of New-Brige offers a Negro man Lewis, 22 years old for sale: "He is sold for want of employment as the subscriber is about retiring from business." on p. 3. Read More about The Hackensack Star and Bergen Farmer.Vol. 1. No. 51
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N.p. [?Beverly Hills, CA]: 30 September 1978. Haley writes to "Lucy" on the subject of James Earl Jones's performance on the London stage and the actor's upcoming portrayal of Haley in Roots: The Next Generation: "I tell you the truth: nothing about Roots II more pleases me than that my..... Read More about Autograph Letter, signed ("Alex"), regarding James Earl Jones and Roots II
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Nashville, Tenn: Haley & Florida, 1896. Second Printing of first edition. First edition of this encyclopedia of African American history, comprised of short biographies and articles on African-American history and institutions. The book was sold by subscription and aimed at an audience booth white and black. The articles are largely..... Read More about Afro-American Encyclopaedia; or the Thoughts Doings and Sayings of the Race Embracing Addresses...
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New York: A. Ranney, 195 Broadway, 1855. First Edition. A series of burlesgue lectures originally published in New York Picayune. Read More about Black Diamond Or Humor, Satire, And Sentiment. With A special Dedication To Louis Gaylord Clark
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White Post, Virginia: September 30, 1840. On Abolition and the Election of 1840. Fauntleroy writes a month before the Presidential election of 1840, quoting General William Henry Harrison's public statements and letters at length to show his hypocrisy regarding the abolition of slavery. As governor of the territory of Indiana..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("F. Fauntleroy), to his brother Robert Henry Fauntleroy, concerning...
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc, 1964. First Edition. Inscribed. Presentation copy of this memoir of one of the Civil Rights movements great heroines, inscribed on the flyleaf by the author. Read More about The Trumpet Sounds. A Memoir of Negro Leadership
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1929. No. 74 of 175 copies SIGNED BY HEYWARD and the designer JOSEPH SANDFORD. Signed by the Author and Designer. Read More about The Half Pint Flask
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1929. No. 50 of 175 copies SIGNED BY HEYWARD and the designer JOSEPH SANDFORD. Signed by the Author and Designer. Read More about The Half Pint Flask
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Boston: D.B. Updike: The Merrymount Press, 1902. First edition. INSCRIBED TO H.C. LODGE. Inscribed: " H.C.Lodge from H.L. Higginson July 8, 1902". Robert Gould Shaw and his black soldiers of 54th Massachusetts Volunteers has been immortalized by the movie. Read More about Four Addresses: The Soldiers' Field: The Harvard Union I: The Harvard Union II: Robert Gould Shaw
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London: Clarke, Beeton & Co., 148, Fleet Street, [1852]. Later edition, bound from the 18 parts. Read More about The White Slave; or, Negro Life in the Slave States of America
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New York: June 28, 1955. Reproduced (from this print) in PORTRAITS: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten (1978). Read More about Portrait photograph of Chester Himes
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[Westport, Conn.]: Meckler Books, [1989]. First edition. Read More about Black Diamonds. Life in the Negro Leagues from the Men Who Lived It
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Philadelphia: Herman Hooker, 1853. First Edition. An argument for the superiority of a policy of African colonization and the repatriation of Afro-Americans over one of mere abolition, which special attention given by the author to Liberia. Read More about Colonization and Abolition Contrasted [drop-title
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. First edition. Inscribed to Lena Horne. INSCRIBED to Lena Horne, “To Miss Lena Horne, A great artist from an adicted admirer. Rosa Guy”. Read More about The Friends
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Chicago: Footprints, Ltd, [1993]. First edition. Inscribed to Lena Horne. With lengthy INSCRIPTIONS to Lena Horne by Jim Swenson, Susan Pollard, Patsy Perkins, and George Hood, who all worked with Horne on the documentary “Charles Honi Coles — A Class Act of Tap” about tap dancer Charles Honi Coles. This..... Read More about Footprints. A Tap Dancer’s World. [A Portfolio of Sixty-five Photographs
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Washington D.C: Gibson Brothers, Printers, 1868. First Edition. The First Annual Report. The first annual report of Howard University, which was founded in 1867 and named after Oliver Otis Howard, a veteran Union general who headed the Freedman’s Bureau and who was instrumental in the founding of the univeristy, and..... Read More about Annual Report of Howard University…for the Year 1867-8
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Washington, D.C: Printed at the Industrial Department of Howard University, 1902. Chartered in 1867, in its first five years of operation, Howard University educated over 150,000 freed slaves. The present catalogue from 1901-02 records the names of 939 students. Read More about The Catalogue of the Officers and Students [of Howard University, Washington, D.C.,] from March,...
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New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, [1956]. First Edition. 350 Years of Illustrations. Read More about A Pictorial History of the Negro in America
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Elkins Park, PA: Music Publication Co, n.d, [1950]. First edition. Inscribed by the composer, Serge Hovey, on the first page. Read More about I, Too, Sing America. A Song Cycle...Poems by Langston Hughes
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New York: League of Struggle for Negro Rights, 1933. Langston Hughes is listed as President of this organization on p. 44, and Hughes may well have had a hand in its contents, which include: (1) Draft Program of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights; (2) The Bill of Civil..... Read More about Equality Land and Freedom. A Program for Negro Liberation
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1954. First Edition. “Interrelated stories on many phases of Negro life from the twenties to the present. ” (Whiteman). Read More about Laughing to Keep From Crying
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New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Company, Inc, 1957. First Edition. The third of the Simple series, after Simple Speaks His Mind and Simple Takes a Wife. Read More about Simple Stakes A Claim
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New York: Hill and Wang, 1965. First Edition. New collection of forty-six stories appearing in the book form for the first time. Read More about Simple's Uncle Sam
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Washington, D.C: Coliniztion Rooms, 1877. Read More about The Color Question. A Letter written for the Sixieth Annual Meeting of the American Colinization...
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