![Living Costs Are Sky-Rocketing, Employers Refuses Negroes Jobs, Wall St. Plans to Capture Elections, Fascist War-Dogs Destroy Peace. How Can We Stop Them? These Are Some of the Burning Questions That Will Be Answered by James W. Ford...[caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/086/959/1721959086.0.l.jpg)
Living Costs Are Sky-Rocketing, Employers Refuses Negroes Jobs, Wall St. Plans to Capture Elections, Fascist War-Dogs Destroy Peace. How Can We Stop Them? These Are Some of the Burning Questions That Will Be Answered by James W. Ford...[caption title]
by [African Americana]: [Ford, James W.]
[Buffalo, 1937. Very good.. Photo-illustrated broadside, approximately 12 x 9 inches. Tanned, darker around the edges, with minor creasing. Small manuscript note at bottom, reading "Buffalo, 1937." A striking and seemingly unrecorded broadside advertising a speech by James W. Ford, the "Outstanding Negro Leader - twice Vice Presidential candidate of the Communist Party - Just returned from Spain and Ethiopia." Ford's quarter-length portrait adorns the top left of the broadside. The broadside was published by the John Brown... Read More
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![Freedom Schools [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/480/675/1740675480.0.l.jpg)
Freedom Schools [caption title]
by [African Americana]: [Los Angeles Friends of SNCC]: Garrett, Jimmy
[Los Angeles: LA Friends of SNCC, 1965. 4pp. of mimeographed text on 8.5-x-14-inch sheets, stapled at top left corner. Minor toning and edge wear, folded once horizontally. Very good. An unrecorded document written by a Los Angeles-area "friend" of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee named Jimmy Garrett, containing his ruminations on ideal schools, based on impressions of the successes and failures of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom School experience. The LA Friends of SNCC was one of several regional groups... Read More
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![Elect J.O. Wyatt County Commissioner 5th District He Knows - He Cares [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/884/958/1721958884.0.l.jpg)
Elect J.O. Wyatt County Commissioner 5th District He Knows - He Cares [caption title]
by [African Americana]: [Georgia]: Wyatt, J.O.
[Atlanta, Ga, 1970. About good.. Three-color photographic portrait broadside, 11 x 28 inches, respectively. Left edge chipped and stained into the image area, old folds and creases. A campaign broadside touting the candidacy for J.O. Wyatt, Jr. Wyatt attended Morehouse College, earned a law degree from Emory, and worked for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission before running successfully for County Commissioner in Fulton County, Georgia in the late-1970s. His father, Dr. J.O. Wyatt, instilled in him a sense... Read More
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![[Autograph Letter, Signed, from Rev. John O'Connell, Rector of the St. Joseph's Industrial School for Colored Boys]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/962/958/1721958962.0.l.jpg)
[Autograph Letter, Signed, from Rev. John O'Connell, Rector of the St. Joseph's Industrial School for Colored Boys]
by [African Americana]: O'Connell, John
Clayton, De: July 9, 1920. Very good.. [1]p., on St. Joseph's Industrial School for Colored Boys letterhead. Minor wear, original mailing folds. A rare correspondence from Reverend John O'Connell, the rector of the St. Joseph's Industrial School for Colored Boys in Clayton, Delaware. Here, O'Connell writes to Mr. A. Huizinga in New York City, thanking him for his help in a recent case involving the citizenship or immigration status of a student or perhaps a teacher at the... Read More
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Joining the Navy or Abroad With Uncle Sam
by [African Americana]: Paynter, John Henry
Washington DC: The Sudwarth Company, 1911. Near fine.. 298pp., plus photographic portrait frontispiece and seven plates. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. Some wear to spine gilt, minor edge wear and light rubbing, corners lightly bumped. Same small ownership ink stamp belonging to John Milton Rand to each pastedown, same owner's signature to front pastedown. Otherwise internally clean. The scarce second edition, harder to find than the first edition, of John Henry Paynter's... Read More
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The Negro in America
by [African Americana]: Dobbs, John Wesley
Atlanta: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1939. Near fine.. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Minimal wear. A small leaflet printing an address by John Wesley Dobbs on the "Wings Over Jordan" radio program on the Columbia Broadcasting System on New Year's Day, 1939. John Wesley Dobbs, an African American activist based in Atlanta, worked for thirty-two years as a railway mail clerk and served for almost as long Grand Master of the Prince Hall Masons of Georgia. He... Read More
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![Not by Power [wrapper title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/662/958/1721958662.0.l.jpg)
Not by Power [wrapper title]
by [African Americana]: Baker, Joseph V.
Philadelphia, 1956. Near fine.. 64pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Light wear. A rare work highlighting the achievements of dozens of notable African Americans and the larger African-American community in the mid-1950s. The work opens with a prologue which begins: "As the American Negro stood at the gate of 1956, his flag of personal achievement had reached a new high point." The remainder of the work is profusely illustrated with portraits of distinguished men and women working in government,... Read More
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The St. John Guide. The Official Church Directory St. John A.M.E. Church
by [African Americana]: [Ohio]: Hicks, Josephus F.
Cleveland: B. Johnson Publishing Company, 1952. Very good plus.. [40]pp. Original red pictorial wrappers, stapled. Mild wear. Light uniform toning to text. A very rare directory listing the members of the St. John A.M.E. Church in Cleveland, edited by Josephus F. Hicks. The editor's preface states that the work was produced "to present the individual groups of this church; the composition of each, a roster of the membership of those who have registered in the 1951 census and... Read More
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![The New Patterson Hotel...One of America's Finest Colored Hotels... [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/284/684/1742684284.0.l.jpg)
The New Patterson Hotel...One of America's Finest Colored Hotels... [caption title]
by [African Americana]: [Travel]: [Louisiana]: Patterson, J.R.
New Orleans, 1955. Photo-illustrated trade card, 2.75 x 6.25 inches. Minor edge wear and toning, horizontal crease, some biopredation to bottom and right portions costing a handful of letters. Good condition. An extraordinary survival from Jim Crow Louisiana, advertising the New Patterson Hotel in New Orleans, owned and operated by John Robert Patterson. The hotel was the first African American-owned hotel in New Orleans, and became one of the most popular during the Green Book era of African American... Read More
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![Funeral Services for Mr. K.C. Jones [caption title] [with:] [Handwritten Notes for the Funeral Service]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/799/958/1721958799.0.l.jpg)
Funeral Services for Mr. K.C. Jones [caption title] [with:] [Handwritten Notes for the Funeral Service]
by [African Americana]: [Texas]: Jones, K.C.
[Ennis, Tx, 1954. Very good.. [4]pp. of mimeographed text on a single folded sheet, plus [1]p. of manuscript. Minor wear to both items. The printed program and a single page of manuscript sermon notes pertaining to the funeral services of Mr. K.C. Jones, held at the Holsey Chapel of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in Jim Crow Ennis, Texas in 1954. The funeral took place on April 20, presided over by Reverend David Jordan. The program is printed... Read More
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Kelly Miller's Authentic History of the Negro in the World War Being an Intensely Human and Brilliant Account of the World War and Why and For What Purpose America and the Allies are Fighting and the Important Part Taken by the Negro...
by [African Americana]: [Salesman's Sample]: Miller, Kelly
Washington, DC: Austin Jenkins Co., Manufacturing Publishers of High Grade Subscription Books, 1920. Very good.. Irregularly paginated with a selection of the published text, along with numerous plates and unused subscription leaves at the end of the text. Original blue cloth decoratively stamped in red, grey, and black on the front cover, with additional flap attached to the front fore-edge which folds inward, showing the intended spine of the book. Light wear and soiling, corners and spine ends rubbed.... Read More
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![Is Race Prejudice Innate or Acquired? [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/015/959/1721959015.0.l.jpg)
Is Race Prejudice Innate or Acquired? [caption title]
by [African Americana]: Miller, Kelly
[N.p., 1927. Very good.. 9pp. Gathered signatures, stapled. Minor rusting to staples, light soiling to margins of outer leaves. A rare pamphlet printing an interesting essay on the nature of race prejudice by one of the foremost African American minds of the early-20th century. Kelly Miller, a noted African American scholar, mathematician, and teacher, was a professor at Howard University and a well-regarded essayist on racial topics. Four of his books were collections of these types of essays,... Read More
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![54th Coast Artillery [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/738/958/1721958738.0.l.jpg)
54th Coast Artillery [cover title]
by [African Americana]: [Texas]: [World War II]: Beasley, Leo
Los Angeles, Ca: Army and Navy Publishing Company, Inc, 1941. Very good.. [2],102,[8]pp. Original red cloth decoratively stamped in blind, with title stamped in gilt on front cover. Boards soiled and rubbed, minor scuffing to edges. Light occasional foxing. A rare yearbook memorializing the first year of training for the 54th Coast Artillery during the early stages of World War II at Camp Davis, North Carolina. The 54th Coast Artillery was an important African-American support unit during the... Read More
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![[Partially-Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Belonging to Lewis Minor, an African-American Army Soldier in Europe]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/696/958/1721958696.0.l.jpg)
[Partially-Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Belonging to Lewis Minor, an African-American Army Soldier in Europe]
by [African-American Photographica]: Minor, Lewis
[Mainly Germany, 1964. Very good.. Twenty-two leaves, illustrated with ninety-one photographs in corner mounts, the first forty captioned in white ink on the album leaves. Oblong quarto. Contemporary red fabrikoid, belt bound, paper label on spine. Decorative stamping on front cover has faded significantly. Minor edge wear and soiling, top corner of front cover chipped. A few photos detached. A vernacular photograph album assembled by Lewis Minor, an African-American Army soldier stationed at United States bases in Germany... Read More
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![[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album and Memory Book Assembled by Reber Woods, Memorializing Her Senior Year at Vashon High School]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/128/959/1721959128.0.l.jpg)
[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album and Memory Book Assembled by Reber Woods, Memorializing Her Senior Year at Vashon High School]
by [African Americana]: [Missouri]: [Woods, Lillian Reber]
[St. Louis, 1934. Good.. [34] leaves, illustrated with fifty-one mounted photographs (most inscribed), with 4 loose photographs laid in, plus numerous pages containing manuscript messages by fellow students, various ephemeral items pasted in throughout, and with some ephemera laid in. Original pre-printed Girl Graduate's Journal published by Reilly & Lee of Chicago, bound in light blue cloth with decorative stamping in gilt and white on front cover, string tied. Noticeable wear and soiling to covers. Some leaves detached,... Read More
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![Annual Report of L.L. Berry, Secretary-Treasurer of Missions of the African Methodist Episcopal Church to the Board of Managers [mimeographed caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/048/959/1721959048.0.l.jpg)
Annual Report of L.L. Berry, Secretary-Treasurer of Missions of the African Methodist Episcopal Church to the Board of Managers [mimeographed caption title]
by [African Methodist Episcopal Church]: Berry, Llewellyn L.
[N.p., but New York City, 1939. Very good.. 20pp. of mimeographed text printed on rectos only, stapled. Some dust-soiling and uneven toning to outer leaves, soft central vertical fold throughout. A rare annual report authored by L.L. Berry, secretary-treasurer of the New York-based Missionary Department of the A.M.E. Church for the year 1938-39. Llewellyn L. Berry (1876-1954) was born in Hampton, Virginia and graduated from Hampton Institute. He served as pastor of various A.M.E. churches in North Carolina... Read More
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![Tramping - Wanna Be Ready - Walk Children [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/719/958/1721958719.0.l.jpg)
Tramping - Wanna Be Ready - Walk Children [cover title]
by [African Americana]: [Music]: Campbell, Lucie E.
[N.p., n.d.]. Good.. [7]pp. Original pictorial self wrappers with photographic portrait on front cover. First and last leaves detached, moderate wear and rubbing, light soiling, pencil annotations covering last blank page. A rare music score for a "Negro spiritual" arranged by noted African-American composer Lucie E. Campbell. The song is "Tramping - Wanna Be Ready - Walk Children," and is arranged over six pages here. A wonderful portrait of Campbell appears on the front cover of the present... Read More
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History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865
by [African Americana]: Emilio, Luis F.
Boston: The Boston Book Company, 1894. Very good.. xvi, 452pp., plus frontispiece and numerous additional illustrations, including nine maps (five single-page and two folding). Original deep blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. Ex-Shirley Public Library, with shelf mark on spine, bookplate on front pastedown, and paper remnants on rear endpapers, and priced accordingly. Moderate edge wear and scuffing to boards, spine ends a bit frayed. Minor occasional foxing to text. Overall good plus. The preferred... Read More
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![By Rev. M.J. Divine, Riverhead, L.I., N.Y., Suffolk County Jail, June 20, 1932, about 2:50 P.M. "While Sitting in My Cell-- [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/970/958/1721958970.0.l.jpg)
By Rev. M.J. Divine, Riverhead, L.I., N.Y., Suffolk County Jail, June 20, 1932, about 2:50 P.M. "While Sitting in My Cell-- [caption title]
by [African Americana]: Divine, Major Jealous
[N.p.], 1932. Near fine.. Broadside, 9 x 6.25 inches. Minor wear. Father Divine was the most prominent black religious cult leader of the 1930s, believed to be a divine messenger, the messiah, or God himself by tens of thousands of African-Americans and middle-class whites during the Great Depression. In November 1931, Divine and seventy-eight of his followers were arrested for disturbing the peace at the Reverend’s property in Sayville, New York, on the south shore of Long Island.... Read More
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Victory to the Black People's Struggle!
by [African Americana]: [Zedong, Mao]: Bay Area Revolutionary Union
San Francisco, 1970. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Some sunning around the edges. Very good condition. An uncommon, and perhaps unrecorded, printing of Mao's statement on African American civil rights, promulgated within a larger leaflet from the Bay Area Revolutionary Union. The first page prints the title and an introductory passage about the statement, including four questions to guide the reader. The middle two pages print Mao's April 16, 1968 statement over a background portrait of him in... Read More
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![Carnegie Hall Marian Anderson [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/140/959/1721959140.0.l.jpg)
Carnegie Hall Marian Anderson [cover title]
by [African Americana]: Anderson, Marian
New York: Alfred Scott, 1951. Very good plus.. 16pp. Publisher's pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Minor wear. Very scarce program for Anderson's March 25, 1951 performance at Carnegie Hall. The great contralto is pictured on the cover and her schedule of songs is listed on three different pages interspersed with advertisements and other information about classical music in New York City. This performance by Anderson included pieces by Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, a selection of English folk songs, and concluded... Read More
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The Tragedy of White Injustice
by [African Americana]: Garvey, Marcus
London [i.e. Baltimore]: [Black Classic Press, 1978. Very good.. 24pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor wear, some discoloration of wrappers. Internally clean but for a small ink notation on title page. Later reprint of the third edition of this fiery polemic against "the ugly octopus of race prejudice and exploitation" from "certain members of the white race.
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![Marian Anderson [manuscript caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/753/958/1721958753.0.l.jpg)
Marian Anderson [manuscript caption title]
by [African American Photographica]: [Anderson, Marian]
[N.p., 1960. Very good.. Black-and-white photograph, 12.5 x 9.5 inches, mounted to tan backing board with manuscript title and photographer's credit in pencil at bottom. Minor surface wear to image, moderate foxing to board. A large-format and striking photograph of legendary African American contralto singer Marian Anderson. The image appears to capture Anderson in middle age, in the midst of talking with someone out of frame, wearing a simple dress and a fancy, feathered hat with a pendant... Read More
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![Sacramento Celebrity Series...Memorial Auditorium...S. Hurok Presents Marian Anderson [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/866/958/1721958866.0.l.jpg)
Sacramento Celebrity Series...Memorial Auditorium...S. Hurok Presents Marian Anderson [cover title]
by [African Americana]: [Anderson, Marian]
[N.p., probably New York City, 1945. Near fine.. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Minor wear. A very rare, seemingly unrecorded program for a performance by legendary African-American contralto Marian Anderson at Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, California. Anderson was accompanied by Franz Rupp at the piano for a host of classical pieces by Handel, Bassani, Bizet, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and others. The performance was presented in five acts, the last of which saw Anderson performing four traditional "Negro... Read More
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![Annual Report to the Board of Directors, Southern Christian Leadership Conference Meeting March 29-30, 1967...[cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/051/959/1721959051.0.l.jpg)
Annual Report to the Board of Directors, Southern Christian Leadership Conference Meeting March 29-30, 1967...[cover title]
by [African Americana]: [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]: [King, Martin Luther, Jr.]: Williams, Hosea L.
Louisville, Ky: March 26, 1967. Very good.. [1],26pp., contemporary copy, printed on rectos only, stapled. Minor toning and small paperclip stain to top edge of title leaf, last leaf loose. Otherwise clean. A nice contemporary copy of the annual report for the Southern Program of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), prepared by Hosea L. Williams, the director of the Southern Program, and presented to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the SCLC's Board of Directors at the... Read More
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