Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. A remarkable record of black life in the 1920s, chronicled by a white physician from the area around the Congaree River in central..... More
Quarto, single sheet: typed on Department of the Interior, U.S. Indian Service letterhead and signed by Major Joseph M. Kelley, 10th Cavalry, Fort Belknap Agency, Montana. Dated September 13, 1894, the letter requests more documentation..... More
Small collection of material from African American writer and historian Lorraine Passovoy to the prominent collector Dion A. Stams, revealing newly-discovered information about Chicago’s founder, the Black fur trader Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable (circa..... More
Sausalito, California: Black World Foundation, May/June 1979. Wraps. The Black Sexism Debate issue, which features an open "discussion of the problems and prospects of black male/female relationships in this racist society." With contributions by Audre..... More
Dallas, Texas: C. M. E. Church or Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, 1946. Wraps. The official song book for the 21st General Conference of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. 452 delegates and more than 5,000 visitors..... More
June 23, 1992. Black-and-white glossy press photograph (10" x 8") by Lloyd Fox. Near fine with caption and date stamps on the verso. "People profile of Paul Coates in his home at 3700 Campfield..... More
Cincinnati: Printed by J.A. & U.P. James, 1849. First Edition. Wraps. The text of a lecture delivered before the House of Representatives in Ohio on February 19, 1849. Christy (1802-68) was an Ohio journalist who..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Angela Davis on the half-title. A brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a...... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Sr., on the front flyleaf. From growing up amidst poverty and racism to preaching from the..... More
San Francisco: Students for a Democratic Society, 1968. Wraps. Offprint of Huey P. Newton’s jailhouse interview, which originally appeared in the alternative press newspaper, The Movement. He discusses the Black Panther Party, cultural nationalism, SNCC..... More
New York: The Dryden Press, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front flyleaf by William Artis (1914-77), the African American sculptor, whose work is featured in this book. Groundbreaking historical study of African American..... More
New York: Abyssinian Baptist Church, 1949. First Edition. Wraps. Octavo: xv, [1], 132, [2] pp. with a frontispiece and 4 portraits. Original printed paper wrappers. Faint label shadow to the front panel, with some general..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947. Hardcover. Lacking a statement of printing, with the K-W code (October, 1947) on the copyright page. Inscribed by Howard Thurman on the front flyleaf. 12mo: 56 pp. Original green..... More