(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Address of the Irish Unitarian Christian Society to their Brethren in America. Boston, 1846. Duodecimo, 7 pages, approximately 5" x 7.5". Many Unitarians were abolitionists. The Irish Unitarians had sent a message to their American brethren in 1844, urging them to oppose slavery, and received no response.....
Friends of Freedom. The Liberty Bell. Boston: Prentiss and Sawyer, 1852. 4.75" x 7.5" inches. 303 pages. First edition Signed and gifted by co-author William I. Bowditch. A very scarce collection of anti-slavery writings. Original brown boards with gilt illustration of Liberty Bell on front cover, decorative gilt spine. Illustrated.....
African Liberation Day handbill. African Liberation Day Coordinating Committee: San Francisco, 1972. Measures 8.5 x 11 inches. Bold red text reads, "African Liberation Day May 27, 1972" with black and white photo of Freedom Fighters in Mozambique fit into the shape of the African continent. Green text below the image.....
Large original photograph of African American barbers. C. early 1900s. Image measures 8 x 6" mounted to photographer's board measuring 10 x 12". Photo shows 5 men in white coats and bow ties standing beside velvet upholstered barber's chairs lining a long counter, ornate mirrors above each station. The men.....
Silver gelatin photo of integrated men's football team with African American coach and players. 1950s. Photo measures 10 x 8 inches. 38 subjects including 10 African American players.and 4 coaches, one of them African American standing in the front of the group, the other coaches stand in the back row.....
Action for Today newsletter. Civil Rights Congress of New York: 1947. Mimeographed newsletter measures 14 x 8.5 inches. 2 pages. Newsletter regarding the anti-lynching bill before Congress reads in part, "Despite political promises of 1946 elections, neither the Republican leadership nor the administration have found it 'politically expedient' to do.....
"The Acid Test of Democracy." NAACP: New York, 1940. 6 panels measuring 3.75 x 8.5 inches printed on yellow paper in dark blue ink. Front panel shows the scale of justice with "NAACP" in bold text behind it. The text begins, "The acid test of democracy in the United Stats.....
Tintype photograph of African American baby. C. 1870. Measuring 2" x 3.5" inches. The baby wears a white smock and sits propped in a chair but leans to the side as if at any moment he might tip over. His eyes are wide and focused off camera, expression curious. This.....
Lot of 4 silver gelatin photos showing African American prisoners performing manual labor. Circa. 1940s. Measurements range from 2.5" x 2" to about 3.5" x 2.5". Images show African American men in striped prison uniforms at work while prison guards oversee them. In one image the men stand with wheelbarrows.....
Race Prejudice and Discrimination. Edited by Arnold M. Rose. Borzoi Books: New York, 1951. First edition. Measures 6 x 8.5 inches. 597 pages. Original gray cloth boards with bold yellow jacket. The book is an anthology of contemporary scholarship on the problem of racism and an early example of critical.....
E.C.L Adams. Nigger to Nigger. Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1928. First edition. Original red cloth covered boards with title in black over stylistic black lightning streak. 5 x 7.75 inches. 270 pages. Adams was a white physician living in central South Carolina who studied and recorded African American communities.....
"Colored People Have a Stake in the War." Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies: New York, 1940. Pamphlet on the African American interest and involvement in World War II. 4 panels measuring 8.5 x 3.75 inches. Printed on yellow paper with dark blue ink. Reads in part, "All.....
[HBCU] [Hampton School] Mrs. M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow. Hampton and its Students by Two of its Teachers. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. First edition, 255 pages; beautiful folding wood-engraved frontispiece of the school and its grounds, 16 wood-engraved illustrations in text, 5 full-page illustrations, original.....
[African American] Archive of 63 vernacular photos of African American women c. 1950s-90s. Images are in color and black and white with measurements ranging from 5" x 7" to 2" x 2" in. One color photo shows 4 generations of Black women posed on stairs outside a large concrete building.....
S.J Holmes, The Negro's Struggle for Survival, A Study in Human Ecology. University of California Press: Berkeley, 1937. First edition. Original brown boards with dust jacket. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 296 pages including an index with a list of tables and illustrated with graphs and charts. The text is a......
Small lot of 3 advertisements with African American subjects. C. 1880s. Promotional card for a shoe store and 2 advertisements for Rising Sun Stove Polish. C. 1880s. Postcard measures 7 x 5 inches. Advertisements are printed together on one page measuring 7 x 6 inches. Postcard shows an African American.....
May 1 Rally, Music, People. 16 1/4 x 11 inches; Original 1970's poster,horizontal fold, minor wear. New Haven, 1 May [1970] A poster for an event at the center of the New Haven May Day protests in 1970. The trial of Bobby Seale, Ericka Huggins and others was underway, and.....
Black Power Student Magazine: Vibrations. Volume 1, number 2, Fall 1971. 39 pages. 8.5" x 11" inches. 8 illustrations accompany text throughout the magazine. Student literary publication from Lehman College, CUNY during the Black Power era. Features a mixture of poetry, short essays, theatrical scenes, and monologues revolving around themes.....
New Orleans Recipes, Mary Moore Bremer. Waveland, Mississippi: 1932. 8" x 5.5" inches. 86 pages. Terracotta color soft cover with red spiral binding and attractive drawing of Bremer with red scarf tied around her hair, red lips and a large gold hoop earring. The book is dedicated to, "Dorothy Dix.....
Bureau of Educational Research, Howard University, Washington DC. The Journal of Negro Education A Quarterly Review of Problems Incident to the Education of Negroes Racial Minorities and the Present International Crisis. July 1941. In original wrappers. 622 pages. Tear on spine, toning on covers. Some foxing in interior, and some.....
Hand-colored albumen photograph representing an allegorical carte-de-visite of Emancipation. 1863. Published by "John Sowle, 14 Summer St., Boston." Illustration by George Gardner Fish. 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches on photographer's mount. Lady Liberty brandishes the Emancipation Proclamation, while two scantily clad enslaved people wrap her in the American flag.....
Family photo album 26 photographs from 8" x 10" to 2.5" x 3.5" inches. Album measures 10" x 12" inches and photos are mounted and covered on self-adhesive magnetic stick pages common during the time. Album's hard cover is red and black with "ALBUM" in gold gilt. The photographs show.....
Archive of 5 silver gelatin photos of African American mother and daughters. circa 1950s. Mounted to black album page measuring 12 x 11 inches. Photos measure between 3 x 5 and 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Subjects are a mother and three daughters pictured at different ages. In one photo the.....
Photo archive of African American family c. 1940s. 21 silver gelatin photos ranging from 3.5 x 5 to 4.5 x 3 inches. 16 photo negatives, some are copies of the prints. Photos show family members posing individually and in groups, many in front of the same large white clapboard house.....
Photos archive of African American family life. 1940s-50s. 27 silver gelatin photos measuring between 3.25 x 4 inches and 3 x 2.5 inches. Photos are mounted to 7 black album pages measuring 14 x 11 inches. Photos show members of an African American family in various settings and poses, a......