Progress of the Negro in Texas
by [African Americana]: [Texas]: Hall, Charles E.
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936. 8pp. Original printed self wrappers, 8 x 5 inches, printed as a ten-panel, fold-out booklet. Moderate staining and soiling, minor edge wear, short closed tear to bottom edge throughout. Good plus. A scarce pamphlet published to educate the attendees of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition on African-American life. The work was compiled by Charles E. Hall, touted here as a "Specialist" in "Negro Statistics" on behalf of the U.S Department of Commerce. The publication... Read More
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![[Manuscript Execution Bond Signed by Three Free African Americans in Early-19th-Century Boston -- Coffin Pitts, John E. Scarlett, and Benjamin P. Bassett]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/775/249/1738249775.0.l.jpg)
[Manuscript Execution Bond Signed by Three Free African Americans in Early-19th-Century Boston -- Coffin Pitts, John E. Scarlett, and Benjamin P. Bassett]
by [African Americana]: Pitts, Coffin, et al.
[Boston]: February 16, 1815. Manuscript document signed, on plain paper, 5.25 x 6 inches. Minor toning and wear, old folds, some mostly unobtrusive staining. Very good. A unique and powerful record of free persons of color living and working in early America, specifically Boston in 1815. The present document is signed at the bottom by at least three free African Americans who made a mark on history enough to be present in the written record of Massachusetts during this... Read More
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Remarks of C.P. Huntington, at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Va., January 1, 1900, on "The Future of the Negro.
by [African Americana]: Huntington, Collis Potter
[Hampton: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, 1900. 12pp. Original printed light green wrappers, stapled. Split to bottom half of spine, two small dampstains to wrappers, minor edge wear, small chip to lower corner of rear wrapper. Internally clean. Good plus. A scarce address delivered by C.P. Huntington at the Hampton Normal Institute on New Year's Day, 1900, on "The Future of the Negro." Huntington begins his address by acknowledging the enormity and complexity of the subject, "because there was... Read More
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![The Sleeping Preacher" Major Perry 1831-1925 [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/169/959/1721959169.0.l.jpg)
The Sleeping Preacher" Major Perry 1831-1925 [cover title]
by [African Americana]: [South Carolina]: [Roston, Daivid W.]
[Saluda, S.C.: Wesley Chapel C.M.E. Church, 1970. Very good.. 10pp. Illustrated with photographs. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Moderate staining and toning to wrappers, small chip to bottom rear corner. Light even toning to text. A rare biography of "The Sleeping Preacher" Major Perry, a former South Carolina slave who gained notoriety for delivering prayers, hymns, and sermons in his sleep (or in a trance) beginning in 1880. He was also apparently delivering a sermon in his sleep when... Read More
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The Progression of Race in the United States and Canada: Treating of the Great Advancement of the Colored Race
by [African Americana]: Buck, D.D.
Chicago: Atwell Printing and Binding Co, 1907. Good.. 540pp., including fifty-six plates. Original blue cloth stamped in black with oval engraved portrait of Sojourner Truth inset on front cover. Edges and corners scuffed, moderate staining and soiling, spine sunned. Front hinge cracked, rear hinge tender, dampstain to fore-edge of first several leaves, light overall toning. An elaborately-produced compendium of biographical entries of important African-American men and women, short histories of Black-owned businesses and institutions, and brief passages on... Read More
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![[Autograph Letter, Signed, by D.J. Johnson, from Rust University, Regarding His Experiences at the School]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/790/958/1721958790.0.l.jpg)
[Autograph Letter, Signed, by D.J. Johnson, from Rust University, Regarding His Experiences at the School]
by [African Americana]: Johnson, D.J.
Holly Springs, MS: February 4, 1889. [2]pp. Original mailing folds, minor toning. In original transmittal envelope, with pre-stamped return label from Rust University. Very good. A rare correspondence from D.J. Johnson, a young African-American student in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1889, written to "Dear Sister," E.F. Stewart. Johnson reports that he is "now in school" with "two hundred and fifty one students and some are coming in daily." He states that he has "only three studies as the term... Read More
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![[Albumen Photograph Portrait of a Dignified African-American Man by Emily Webb, a Renowned Female Photographer in Delaware]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/054/959/1721959054.0.l.jpg)
[Albumen Photograph Portrait of a Dignified African-American Man by Emily Webb, a Renowned Female Photographer in Delaware]
by [African Americana]: [Women]: [Webb, Emily]
Wilmington, De: E. Webb, 1880. Good.. Oval albumen photograph, 7.25 x 5.25 inches at nexus points, on a printed studio mount measuring 10 x 7.5 inches. Long stain along left edge, not touching the image, some edge wear and spotting to mount, minor soiling and surface wear to image. Verso tanned. A striking photographic portrait of a dignified African-American man in jacket and collar, leaning against a table in a Delaware photographic studio in the latter part of... Read More
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![Birth of a Race Photoplay Corporation...Capital Stock...[caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/985/958/1721958985.0.l.jpg)
Birth of a Race Photoplay Corporation...Capital Stock...[caption title]
by [African Americana]: [Scott, Emmett J.]
Chicago: J.W. Middleton & Co, 1918. Very good.. Tinted lithographic certificate, 8.25 x 11 inches, completed in manuscript. Old folds, minor dust soiling. A rare surviving stock certificate for a corporation established in 1916 by Emmett J. Scott and other well-intentioned but somewhat cinematically-naive individuals who wanted to make their own silent film as a rebuke to the virulently racist (and still celebrated) The Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffiths. The title of the proposed film is... Read More
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![[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Cold War-Era Service of an African-American Soldier in the 26th Infantry]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/956/958/1721958956.0.l.jpg)
[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Cold War-Era Service of an African-American Soldier in the 26th Infantry]
by [African-American Photographica]: [26th Infantry]: Jones, Eugene
[Kansas and Germany, 1960. Very good.. Twenty-two leaves, illustrated with 167 photographs, most mounted and captioned in white ink, with a handful of loose images and one cloth nameplate. Some images removed. Oblong folio. Contemporary dark blue leatherette, triple-ruled gilt borders on front cover, string tied. Faint manuscript title on front cover reads, "Book of the Past." Front cover detached, some edge wear. Minor chipping to initial leaves, first two leaves detached, photos in generally nice condition. A... Read More
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From Mud Walls to College Halls. A Brief Biography of David Jayn Manly
by [African Americana]: Emery, E.W.
Dayton, Oh: The Otterbein Press, 1923. Very good.. 30pp. 16mo. Publisher's wrappers, stapled, with photographic portrait of Manly on front wrapper. Minor soiling and staining to wrappers. The rare updated second edition after the first of 1919, relating the story of David Jayn Manly's life from Sierra Leone to his college experiences in Indiana. The first edition was published under a different title, From the Jungles of Africa to Indiana Central University. Indian Central University is now known... Read More
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Factum Factorum
by [African Americana]: Coffin, Frank B.
[New York: Haven Press, 1947. Very good.. 190pp., plus four pages of photographic portraits preceding the text. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Minor rubbing and spotting to boards. Text lightly toned but clean. A scarce collection of poetry and prose by Frank B. Coffin of Little Rock, Arkansas. Coffin, an African-American pharmacist and poet, was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, earned his pharmacist's diploma at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, and spent the rest of his life... Read More
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The Liberator. Vol. XVII. No. 40
by [African Americana]: [Douglass, Frederick]: Garrison, William Lloyd, ed.
Boston, 1848. [4]pp. (paginated [157]-160), printed in six columns on a single folded folio sheet of newsprint. Old folds, minor wear and light scuffing to edges, small closed tear in third column of first leaf, minor staining. Small pencil notation in top margin reading, "Lucretia Mott." Overall about very good. A particularly notable issue of the official newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS), famously edited by firebrand abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, containing the full text of a gloriously... Read More
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The Negro Problem" As Seen and Discussed by Southern White Men in Conference, at Montgomery, Alabama; With Criticisms by the Northern Press. Prepared and Compiled for the National Afro-American Council...
by [African Americana]: Mebane, George Allen
New York: The Alliance Publishing Co, 1900. Very good.. 40pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Some discoloration along front wrapper, minor dust-soiling to wrappers. Thin dampstain along outer margin of first few leaves, otherwise internally clean. A rare report compiled by noted African-American educator, author, and businessman George Allen Mebane of North Carolina. Mebane prepared the work from a conference of white men who assembled in Alabama to discuss race relations at the turn of the 20th century. The... Read More
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![[Manuscript Letter from George Whipple to Almira Barnes, Regarding the Activities of Escaped Slave and Educator William P. Newman]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/723/958/1721958723.0.l.jpg)
[Manuscript Letter from George Whipple to Almira Barnes, Regarding the Activities of Escaped Slave and Educator William P. Newman]
by [African Americana]: Whipple, George
New York: March 2, 1847. Very good plus.. Autograph letter, signed, [2]pp., on blue paper. Original mailing folds, very light toning along fold lines. An important manuscript letter by professor and abolitionist George Whipple regarding the activities of escaped slave and educator William P. Newman. Whipple wrote the present letter just after he left his professorship at Oberlin College, and began serving as the Corresponding Secretary of the American Missionary Society (AMS), a position he would hold until... Read More
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![[Autograph Letter, Signed, from Georgia Blakemore Williams, a Pioneering African-American Pharmacist, While Still a Student at Meharry Medical School, to Rev. A.T. Stewart of Tyler, Texas]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/636/958/1721958636.0.l.jpg)
[Autograph Letter, Signed, from Georgia Blakemore Williams, a Pioneering African-American Pharmacist, While Still a Student at Meharry Medical School, to Rev. A.T. Stewart of Tyler, Texas]
by [African Americana]: Williams, Georgia Blakemore
Nashville: February 29, 1920. Very good plus.. 6pp., on plain paper, with original transmittal envelope. Original mailing folds, light wear. A friendly and informative correspondence written by Georgia Blakemore (later Georgia Blakemore Williams), while studying at the famed Meharry Medical College in Nashville. Georgia Blakemore Williams was born in Tennessee in 1883. She graduated from Tuskegee Institute at the turn of the century, and worked as a teacher in the East Texas Baptist Academy and in the public... Read More
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Dreams Come True!
by [African Americana]: [Tennessee]: Lee, George L.
[New York and Memphis: Black and White Company, 1940. Very good.. 28pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor toning, light soiling to wrappers. A rare pamphlet promoting the beauty products of the Black and White Company. According to the introductory text: "'Dreams Come True' is presented for your entertainment and pleasure by the makers of the popular Black and White Beauty Preparations. This book takes its name from illustrated, true-to-life stories of great persons who dreamed great dreams. By... Read More
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Historical Notes on the Employment of Negroes in the American Army of the Revolution
by [African Americana]: Moore, George H.
New York: Charles T. Evans, 1862. 24pp. Original printed wrappers (rear wrapper lacking), sewn. Front wrapper chipped, a bit stained, and toned. Text evenly toned, but internally clean. Good condition. A brief but important survey of the involvement of Black troops, both free and enslaved, in the War of Independence. Moore, at this time serving as Librarian of the New York Historical Society, drafted these remarks in July, 1862 -- a time of intense debate in Congress over the... Read More
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We Challenged Jim Crow! A Report on the Journey of Reconciliation. April 9-23, 1947
by [African Americana]: [Fellowship of Reconciliation]: [Congress of Racial Equality]: Houser, George, and Bayard Rustin
Newark, NJ: Libertarian Print Shop, 1947. 16pp. Original printed self wrappers, stapled. Uniform toning throughout, head and tail of spine partially split, faint ink stamp to front wrapper, minor chipping to top edge of rear wrapper. Good plus. A scarce report issued in the aftermath of a brave and dangerous experiment by a group of eight African American men and eight white men from the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Congress of Racial Equality in the Jim Crow era.... Read More
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The Industrial History of the Negro Race of the United States
by [African Americana]: Jackson, Giles B. and D. Webster Davis
Richmond, Va: Presses of the Virginia Press, 1908. Very good plus.. 400pp., including scores of photographic plates and illustrations within the text. Publisher's light blue cloth stamped in black. Minor wear and rubbing to boards. A profusely-illustrated historical treatment of African American industrial history intended as a textbook for teaching Black youth. The authors, Giles B. Jackson and D. Webster Davis (who are featured in the photographic frontispiece), write in their Preface that "Every rave has its history... Read More
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![Meiguo Hei Ren Yao Zi You [American Negroes Want Freedom]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/859/958/1721958859.0.l.jpg)
Meiguo Hei Ren Yao Zi You [American Negroes Want Freedom]
by [African Americana]: [Music]: Weiran, Guang (lyrics) and Lu Ji (music)
Beijing: Yinyue chubanshe, 1964. Very good.. [4]pp. on a single folded sheet, printed in red and black. Minor wear and toning. A militant song about "centuries of hatred" seething in the awakening hearts of an oppressed minority, and the eighteen levels of imperialist hell echoing with the sounds of the coming liberation forces. Lyrics include, "The Negro's American oppressors are the common enemy of all races." Lyricist Guang Weiran (1913-2002) was a prominent poet, author of some revolutionary... Read More
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Pioneer Colored Christians
by [African Americana]: Miller, Harriet Parks
Clarksville, Tn: W.P. Titus, Printer and Binder, 1911. Very good.. 103pp., plus eleven photographic plates. Original grey printed wrappers. Minor edge wear. A history of the African American community of Port Royal, Tennessee, centered around the Carr family, founders of the historic Mt. Zion Baptist Church. The history was compiled by Harriet Parks Miller, a white resident of Port Royal, from interviews with church pioneers and community members. The book begins with an interview of then-86-year-old Aunt Kitty... Read More
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Come See About Huey: Demonstrate!
by [African Americana]: [Black Panther Party]: [Newton, Huey]
[New Haven, Ct, 1970. Very good.. Broadsheet, 14 x 8.5 inches. Minor edge wear, light soiling and foxing, soft horizontal fold. Small ink notation at bottom noting "Feb - 1970." A striking broadsheet advertising a Black Panther demonstration at the Federal Building in New Haven in early 1970, to protest the manslaughter verdict against Huey Newton. The demonstration, organized by the New Haven Chapter of the Black Panther Party, is set for February 22, the same day Newton's... Read More
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Publications of the Associated Publishers, Inc
by [African Americana]: [Publishing]: The Associated Publishers, Inc
Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, Inc, 1926. [8]pp. Illustrated. Original self wrappers, stapled. Light toning and thumb-soiling. Very good. [with:] Pictures of Distinguished Negroes. Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, Inc., [1927?]. [4]pp. on a single folded sheet. Folded, with short separations to upper fold lines. Light toning. Very good. An informative pair of promotional pamphlets issued by the Associated Publishers, a notable African-American publishing house during the early-20th century. Both works provide a valuable peek into the marketing of books... Read More
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![[Pair of Large Photographically-Illustrated Scrapbooks Celebrating the Monroe-Grambling Chapter of The Links, Inc., an Important Organization of African-American Women in Louisiana]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/808/958/1721958808.0.l.jpg)
[Pair of Large Photographically-Illustrated Scrapbooks Celebrating the Monroe-Grambling Chapter of The Links, Inc., an Important Organization of African-American Women in Louisiana]
by [African Americana]: [Louisiana]: [The Links, Incorporated]
[Monroe, La, 1991. Very good.. Two large folio scrapbooks: First scrapbook: [63] leaves, illustrated with seventy-seven original photographs, plus numerous programs, certificates, newspaper clippings (including many photographically illustrated), and other ephemeral items. Large square folio. Contemporary green cloth with white vinyl laid down to boards, the front board titled with green wooden raised letters, reading "The [M]onroe-Gramb[l]ing Chapter of The Links, Inc." Two letters missing (as indicated by brackets above) and a few chipped. Minor wear and soiling... Read More
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Your History from the Beginning of Time to the Present
by [African Americana]: Rogers, J.A.
Pittsburgh: The Pittsburgh Courier Publishing Co, 1940. [96]pp. Quarto. Original orange wrappers, printed and illustrated in black and red. Minor edge wear, creasing, and dust soiling to wrappers, spine ends a bit chipped. Previous owner's signature on front wrapper. Minor foxing, mainly to the last several leaves, and light toning, but mostly clean internally. Very good condition. A rare work of African American graphic history, containing illustrated biographical vignettes for hundreds of Black historical figures, all written by a... Read More
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