[New York]: Harper & Row, [1967 or 1968]. Includes 13 quotes from Stride Toward Freedom, Strength to Love, Why We Can't Wait and Where Do We Go From Here. It is unclear if this broadside was produced by Harper & Row during the publicity tour for Where Do We Go..... Read More about Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaks
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Atlanta, Ga: Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1924. “Words of timely Wisdom from the soul of the great Imperial Wizard, who out of Mystic Darkness brings Light.”. Read More about The Practice of Klanishness [Drop title]. Imperial Instruction document No. 1, series AD. 1924,...
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New York: Intercultural Publications Inc, 1952. Perspectives USA subscription card mailed to the home of Langston Hughes. Perspectives USA was a groundbreaking magazine for American arts and culture and during the course of its sixteen issue run (1952-1956) and featured artists and writers such as William Carlos Williams, Thornton Wilder..... Read More about Perspectives USA subscription mailer addressed to Langston Hughes' home
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New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1989. Edition limited to 400 numbered copies signed by Lawrence. This is number 341. Read More about The First Book of Moses, called Genesis
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Seattle, Washington: September 13, 1993. ALS, from Jacob Lawrence, to noted author and art critic Selden Rodman. It states (in part): "Dear Selden; This is a reply to your letter of September 7th, 1993, in which is requested biographical data for a book that you are working on 'Geniuses and..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed "Jake" to Selden Rodman
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New York: 7 April, 1941. Canada Lee as Bigger Thomas, 1941. Lee was acclaimed for his portrayal of Bigger Thomas in Orson Welles' 1941 stage adaptation of the Richard Wright' s NATIVE SON. Brooks Atkinson in the New York Times called his performance "the most vital piece of acting on..... Read More about Portrait Photograph of Canada Lee as Bigger Thomas, in the 1941 Orson Welles' stage adaptation of...
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[Springfield, IL]: [1857]. First edition. The Dred Scott Speech. Rare first printing in book form of an important early speech by Lincoln declaring the Dred Scott decision to be "erroneous," setting the stage for the Lincoln-Douglas debates and his House Divided speech of the following year, and laying the foundation..... Read More about Speech of the Hon. Abram Lincoln, in reply to Judge Douglas. Delivered in Representatives' Hall,...
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London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1891. Number 6 of 35 copies. ONE OF 35 ON JAPAN VELLUM. Linton is credited on the half-title as editor and illustrator (as well as his name is in red on the front cover), but he also the poet. Read More about Catoninetales. A Domestic Epic by Hattie Brown. A Young lady of colour lately deceased at the age...
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Queens Village, New York, NY: July 18, 1811. An indenture concerning a historically significant property on Long Island and a sale by Lloyd heir, John Nelson Lloyd (1783-1842), and his mother, Amelia White Lloyd (1760-1818), to John Nelson Lloyd’s sister, Angelina Lloyd Strong (1785-1814). Queens Village, originally annexed to Oyster..... Read More about Autograph manuscript indenture signed (“Jno Nelson Lloyd”) and (”Amelia Lloyd”) for the...
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Cleveland, Ohio: The Future Outlook League, [May, 1947]. First Edition. A History of the first 11 years of this black Cleveland organization organized by John O. Holly. Read More about The Future is Yours. The History of the Future Outlook League, 1935-1946
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Washington, D.C: The Minorities Publishers, 1945. First Edition. Read More about The Negro and the Post-War World: A Primer
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New York: Columbia, 1931. First edition. Inscribed to fellow Columbia professor John H. Lyon, "For John H.H. Lyon, with always the highest esteem and sincerest affection — Vernon Loggins”. Read More about The Negro Author. His Development in America
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[Shreveport]: A Coopertative Project of Shreveport Negro Chamber of Cmmerce, Coordinating & Development Council of Northwest Louisiana, Southern University Center for Economic Development, [circa 1972]. "This directory represents the first attempt to provide a more comprehensive listing of Negro Businessses in the Shreveport-Bossier area. The committee that guided the assembling..... Read More about Negro Directory of Businesses in the Greater Shreveport Area
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Cambridge: Published by George Nichols, 1848. First Edition, BAL binding A. First edition of Lowell's caustic satire of the Mexican-American War and the issue of the expansion of slavery. Read More about The Biglow Papers. Edited with an introduction, notes, glossary, and a copious index by Homer...
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New York: Lee Furman, [1935]. First edition. Black communist organizer in the South. "...deals with the contemporary suppression of Negro rights in the American South through economic exploitation, Jim Crow, and lynchings..." Rideout p. 194. Georgia born author's second novel. Read More about A Sign for Cain
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Chicago: Committee of Returned Volunteers, c 1969. Read More about Luta Struggle. Voices of African Liberation
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Jackson, TN: The M.V. Lynk Publishing House, 1899. First edition. African American Author and Publisher. A rare regimental history detailing the heroics of black soldiers in the Spanish-American War, notable for its commentary on how the 9th U.S. Calvary, the "Black Buffaloes," saved Roosevelt's Rough Riders from certain destruction: "[the..... Read More about The Black Troopers, or the Daring Heroism of the Negro Soldiers in the Spanish American War
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[Boston: Charles Alexander], January 18, 1898. An early history of the underground railroad in Pennsylvania. Read More about When Men were Sold. The Underground Railroad in Bucks County, Pa. An Address delivered before the...
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Berlin, New Jersey: Zone Productions, 1993. Michael Avon Oeming. First edition. Famous Quotations Presents: Malcolm X (1925-1965). Read More about Malcolm X Famous Quotations Trading Cards
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New York: Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1857. Read More about The “Manifest Destiny” of the American Union. Reprinted from the Westminster Review
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Boston: Published by John P. Jewett & Co, 1850. First edition. Read More about Fugitive Slaves: a Sermon preached in the North Congregational Church, Winchendon on the Day of...
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New York: 1933 - 1972. Includes: James W. FORD, and James s. ALLEN, The Negroes in a Soviet America. NY: Workers Library Publishers, June, 1933; Henry WINSTON, What it Means to Be a Communist. NY: New Century Publisher, Februrary, 1951; Henry WINSTON, Black and White - One Class, One Fight..... Read More about Collection of 15 pamphlets by various authors dealing with the Afro-American struggle from a...
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[Annapolis, MD]: [January 1860]. The slip bill, marked Bill H at the top of the first page, proposes an amendment to the seventy-fifth section of the thirtieth article of the Maryland code of public general laws, stating "that if any free negro shall knowingly call for, demand or receive any..... Read More about House of Delegates ... Mr. Jacobs, from Committee on Colored Population ... A Bill ... which...
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1902. Presentation copy, signed with initials on the upper wrapper. Separately-issued offprint from Modern Philology (Vol. 11, No. 2, Octobert 1904) by the noted Boston etymologist and OED contributor Albert Matthews considering the origins and usage of the word "lynching" Read More about The Term Lynch Law
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New York: Schocken Books, 1973. First Edition thus. The first comprehensive selection of poetry and prose by the Jamaican-American writer. Read More about The Passion of Claude McKay Selected Prose and Poetry 1912-1948
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