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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Important and rare Civil Rights document from the original files of the SCLC, the Civil Rights organization King founded after the Montgomery Bus Boycotts. First Edition. Dated October 30, 1967, the day of King’s return to Birmingham, the locus of one of his most triumphant.....
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Crisis in America’s Cities; An Analysis of Social Disorder and a Plan of Action Against Poverty, Discrimination and Racism in Urban ” First Edition unpublished mimeograph draft. 5 pages plus cover. King’s nationwide call to action against urban poverty, the most ambitious Civil Rights Campaign.....
Archive of 8 certificates belonging and awarded to Helen Keller for her service including one certificate awarded to her teacher and lifelong companion, Anne Sullivan. The dates of the documents are 1936 to 1948. After illness in early childhood left her blind and deaf, Keller spent her adult life as.....
Phillis Wheatley. The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature For the Year 1772. Fifth edition. J. Dodsley: London, 1795. Original marbled half leather boards. Measures 6 x 8.5 inches. 255 pages. An anthology of major works from the year 1772 including Wheatley's poem "On Recollection.".....
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or Life Among the Lowly. Cleveland: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. In two volumes. Signed First edition in rare gilt gift binding. This is the second printing of the First edition, marked "Tenth Thousand" on title page. First volume 312 pages, second volume.....
Langston Hughes. African American Novelist. Early signed portrait of Langston Hughes at the age of 30, a year after winning the Harmon Gold Medal for his first novel Not Without Laughter. Gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 inches, James L. Allen, photographer. New York, 10 November 1931. Photographer's embossed stamp.....
Extensive correspondence of 52 letters from 1930-1950 totaling 121 pages by various authors, mainly young women native to the Indian subcontinent. In 1931, Indian female literacy hovered under 3% making the experiences of these forerunners, and their correspondence, incredibly rare. These writers are highly unusual because of their level of.....
Small archive of two pamphlets with transcripts of speeches concerning anti-lynching legislation. THURMOND, J. Strom. President Truman's So-Called Civil Rights Program. Columbia, SC: [Columbia Democratic Party], 1948. BYRNES, James F. Inaugural Address of the Honorable James F. Byrnes as Governor of South Carolina. Columbia, SC: N.p., 1951. At the time.....
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.....
New Constitution for the State of Illinois. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1870. Presented by the Sangamo Insurance Company. Octavo, approximately 5.5" x 8.5" inches. Printed gray wrappers. 32 pages. By the start of the Civil War, it was clear that the Illinois 1848 constitution was not equipped for the.....
New Constitution for the State of Illinois. Presented by Hawley & Grant... Springfield, IL. 1870. Octavo, approximately 5.5" x 8.5" inches. Printed blue wrappers. 32 pages. By the start of the Civil War, it was clear that the Illinois 1848 constitution was not equipped for the unforeseen changes in transportation.....
Langston Hughes. Signed contract authorizing use of Hughes' autobiography I Wonder As I Wander. New York, 1957. Measures 14" x 8.5". 2 pages. Contract between Hughes and Jacobo Huchnik for the publication and distribution of the book's Spanish-language translation. I Wonder As I Wander was published in 1934, twenty three.....
[Dr. Martin Luther King Funeral] Dr. King’s private funeral information sheet with phone numbers for Press, transportation, housing, the March Committee, and more; schedule of events: Dr. King lying in state, service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, march to Morehouse College, Service at Morehouse, and a Memorial Show at Atlanta Stadium.....
Martin Luther King, Jr. Speeches by The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. About the War in Vietnam. New York: Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, 1968. A collection of three speeches from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered from April 1967 to February 1968 regarding America’s role in the.....
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.....
First printing of Martin Luther King's lectures at Massey Hall, Toronto, concerning American race relations, the war in Vietnam, youth and social action and non-violence as a tactic for social change. Toronto: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1967. Measures 8" x 5" inches. Ownership inscription in ink on inside front cover. The.....
The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. is pictured with Dean Francis B, Sayre, Jr. and a police escort. Original silver gelatin press photo. 4.5" x 4" inches. Washington, D.C., 1968. King is pictured here with Dean Francis Sayre Jr., the dean of the Washington National Cathedral, on March 31, 1968.....
KING, Martin Luther, Jr. Original vintage silver gelatin photograph by African American photographer Johnnie R.. CRUMP, (1905-1975., Vicksburg, MS: circa 1960s. The photo measures 5 x 7 in. Has a photographer stamp "Johnnie Crump's Vicksburg, MS" ink stamp on verso of the photo. The image shows Dr. King wearing a......
Original Silver gelatin photo of march for Woman's Suffrage, in 1912. Measures 6 x 4.5 inches. Image shows large group of women marching in rows that extend as far as the eye can see, a striking group in their long white dresses, a crowd of mostly men and parked early.....
(African American EDUCATION] A very small school started in 1865 with a straightforward mission: to provide an education to formerly enslaved men and women. For 25 years Storer College was the only school in West Virginia where any person of color could get an education beyond the primary level. Storer.....
[African American EDUCATION] Storer College is one of the most seminal institutions for the secondary education of freed African Americans located in Harpers Ferry, which Frederick Douglass described as the town where the 'end of American slavery began." Starting in 1865, it was the birthplace of the NAACP, and one.....
King Jr, Martin Luther. Southern Christian Leadership Conference packet including a circular letter from Dr. King. Archive of 5 items: Offset printed copy of King's letter with facsimile signature dated December 1964, 11 x 8 1/2 inches (mailing folds); "Some Important Fiscal Facts about SCLC," also included "From Page One.....
Benezet, Anthony. A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions. London: sold by James Phillips, 1784. First London reprint of what is described on the titlepage as "A New Edition." Hard cover. Measures 5".....
Black Panthers Double-sided broadsheet "Opening Salvos from a Black-White Gun". 17 x 22 inches, printed in purple on lavender paper; with the Black panther image on tope. original folds. Berkeley, CA, 1 November 1968. A collaboration between the Black Panthers and the Yippies. One side features dueling manifestos on the.....
Hughes, Langston. The Best of Simple. New York: Hill and Wang, 1961. Signed and inscribed by the author. Soft cover with sixteen illustrations by Bernhard Nast. These short stories are a collection of Hughes favorite tales of Jesse B. Semple, the beloved character who appeared throughout Hughes' work. Referred to.....