Los Angeles, Calif: February 15, 1955. Dorothy Dandridge in Hollywood. A complex contract with the legendary Dandridge and... Read More about Typed Contract signed between Dorothy Dandridge and Twentieth-Century Fox, to "render services as...
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![Item #11530 Colonization and Abolition Contrasted [drop-title]. Herman Hooker](/pictures/thumb/11530.jpg?v=1656538676)
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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![Item #251434 Footprints. A Tap Dancer’s World. [A Portfolio of Sixty-five Photographs]. Lena...](/pictures/thumb/251434.jpg?v=1656541115)
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: 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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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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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1955. Fifteenth printing. Includes "The Prodigal Son", beginning "Young man...Your arm's too short to box with God." Read More about God's Trombones: Some Negro Sermons in Verse
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Richmond, Va: The Presses of The Virginia Presses, [1908]. First edition. Both authors were born slave's children. Daniel Webster Davis (1862-1913) was a teacher, poet, pastor. Jackson (1853-1924) was a Richmond attorney, civil rights activist and newspaper publisher. Read More about The Industrial History of the Negro Race of the United States
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Feburary 23, 1975. Jackson was the Black chief petty officer who often played the accordion for FDR at his Georgia retreat Warm Springs and was made famous in the LIFE magazine hotograph of him playing as FDR's coffin was moved from the Little White House to Washington, DC. He is..... Read More about Signed Envelope with FDR and ER stamps with a musical scale
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London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1890. First Edition. Jamaican dialect folk stories, including West African Anansi tales. Read More about Mamma's Black Nurse Stories
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Port-of-Spain, Trinidad: Printed by P.N.M. Publishing Co., Ltd, 1960. First edition. The author was born in Trinidad in 1901. He was a "teacher and Newspaperman, left for England in 1932. In Great Britain, 1932-1938, the United States, 1938-1953, and again in Great Britain, 1953-1958, wrote and radio. Returned to the..... Read More about Modern Politics. Being a Series of Lectures on the Subject given at the Trinidad Public Library,...
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1960]. First edition. Inscribed, December 1, 1960. To Mildred & Shepard with affectionate regards ---JKJ N.Y." Read More about Discrimination — U.S.A
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[New York: 1857]. First edition. An attack on the American Tract Society by Jay, one of the founders of the NY Anti-Slavery Society, for its attempts to sidestep the issue of slavery. Read More about A Letter to the Committee Chosen by the American Tract Society, to Inquire into The Proceedings...
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Columbia, S. C: The State Company, 1925. First Edition. Read More about The Slave Trade. Slavery and Color
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The Limited Editions Club, 1995. Crite, Allan Rohan. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Crite. "One of the most intriguing books of the Bible, this work has inspired the literary masterpieces of Dante and Milton. Now it has inspired one of America’s great artists, Allan Rohan Crite, to..... Read More about The Revelation of Saint John the Divine
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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1929]. First English edition. Early printing. Includes "The Prodigal Son", beginning "Young man...Your arm's too short to box with God." Read More about God's Trombones: Some Negro Sermons in Verse
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New York: The Viking Press, 1950. Thirteenth printing. Includes "The Prodigal Son", beginning "Young man...Your arm's too short to box with God." Read More about God's Trombones: Some Negro Sermons in Verse
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New York: Viking Press, 1935. First edition. Read More about Saint Peter Relates an Incident. Selected Poems
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New York: Viking Press, 1935. INSCRIBED. Inscribed "For Mrs. Charles L. Mead/ Sincerely, James Weldon Johnson/ October 4-1937." Read More about Saint Peter Relates an Incident. Selected Poems
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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881. New, Revised and Enlarged Edition. Read More about William Lloyd Garrison and His Times: Or, Sketches of the anti-slavery movement in America, and...
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Boston: B.B. Russell & Co, 1880. First Edition. Inscribed to Springfield Republican editor Samuel Bowles. Inscribed to the son of the famed editor of the Springfield Republican, Samuel Bowles (1826-1878). Samuel Jr. assumed editorship of the paper at his father's death. Read More about William Lloyd Garrison and His Times; or, Sketches of the Anti-Slavery Movement in America, and...
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New York: May 29, 1961. Jones made an impression in 1961 in the off-Broadway production of Genet's play The Blacks. Read More about Portrait Photograph of James Earl Jones
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New York: William Morrow and Company, 1964. Dutchman was Jones’s first professionally produced play, the winner of the 1964 Obie Award. Read More about Dutchman And The Slave
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