Tintype photograph of African American baby. C. 1870. Measuring 2.5" x 4.5" inches. The baby wears a white smock and sits propped in a chair, eyes wide and focused off camera, expression curious. This photo comes from a time just after emancipation when African Americans were creating new lives for.....
[African American] [Voting] Newspaper reports on suppression of Black votes in Southern states. The Educator. Vol. 1, No. 10. Buffalo, NY, December 1889. . “…there is now but little doubt that in many election districts in the South either only a small number of the colored people vote, or, if.....
Political Prisoners: The Cases of Angela Davis, Ruchell Magee, and the Soledad Brothers. Memphis, TN: Southern Committee to Free Angela Davis, 1972. 8.75" x 7" inches. 3 leaves folded in half, not bound. 10 pages. This pamphlet aims to inform readers on the legal predicament facing Black Panther militants Angela.....
The Black Panther Newspaper. Jan. 9, 1971. Vol. 4, No. 28. Folio size. 20 pages. The Black Panther newspaper distributed information about the party's activities and its ideology. The newspaper was most popular from 1968-1972, and sold a hundred thousand copies a week, being the most widely circulated Black newspaper.....
White House leatherette portfolio. Brand new. Black leather appearance portfolio with the presidential seal embossed. These portfolios are used in The West Wing and Oval office. 9"x12" with embossed gold presidential eagle and the words "The White House" embossed. Legal pad inside. Some of these were also offered as White.....
Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery An Autobiography. New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1901. First edition. Duodecimo, 5.5” x 7.5” inches. 330 pages. Half binding with original boards. Ex libris. . First edition autobiography from Booker T. Washington recounting the story of his life—from slave to community leader. The.....
[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. Archive of 10 items,mostly original silver gelatin press photographs of high profile African Americans, including civil rights attorney Arthur Shores, Stevie Wonder, and Jesse Jackson. The photos are from UPI. Includes 7 x 9 in. silver gelatin photograph of Arthur Shores with note stating his home was bombed.....
Work, Monroe N. First edition. Negro Year Book: an Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro 1925-1926. Original hardcover maroon gilt-lettered cloth. 544 pages. Published by Tuskegee, AL: Negro Year Book Publishing Co., Tuskegee Institute, 1925. In the first decades of the 20th century, few institutions or scholars did research or work.....
Black Panther broadside calling on citizens to attend a hearing on police misconduct in response to the murder of 15-year-old Melvin Black by Oakland Police in 1979. 11" x 8.5" inches. The broadside states that Black was "shot 12 times in the back by three Oakland police officers", "had no.....
Flyer from the National Negro Congress, February 14-16, 1936. 12" x 9" inches. The National Negro Congress attempted to build a national constituency to pressure New Deal administrators for labor and civil rights. Over 800 delegates, 43 percent of them from Chicago and the rest from across the nation, representing.....
BATES, Daisy. The Long Shadow of Little Rock. New York: David Mckay, 1962. First edition, second printing. 234 pages. 16 pages of photographic inserts between pages 174-175. In original dust jacket. 8" x 5" inches. In 1962, Daisy Bates wrote this memoir when she was probably still the most hated.....
[Abolition] [African Americana] SUMNER, Charles. Defence of Massachusetts. Speeches of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Boston Memorial for the Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Bill, and in Reply To Messrs. Jones of Tennessee, Butler of South Carolina, And Mason of Virginia in the Senate of the United States, June 26.....
[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.....
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......
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.....
Photo archive of African American family c. 1940s. 20 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.....
[African American] [Education] 2 original press photographs related to integrating Little Rock Central High School and the University of Alabama. n.d. [1957], 1965. Silver gelatin print photographs, 8 x 10”. Both images include original, typed press captions printed in image margins. Little Rock photo shows NAACP leaders including Daisy Bates.....
The Black Panther. Vol. V, No. 30. Jan. 23, 1971. 20 pages. This issue of the Black Panther Party's influential newspaper declares: "Let Us Hold High The Banner Of Intercommunalism And The Invincible Thoughts Of Huey P. Newton, Minister Of Defense And Supreme Commander Of The Black Panther Party." The.....
Barricade. Vol. 1, No. 2. Berkeley: July 12, Year of the Barricades [1968]. Broadsheet printed both sides. 19.75" x 14" inches. The unnamed editors describe themselves as "people who have been on the streets and turned off by meetings that have tried to misdirect our struggle. We are an independent.....
Original photo Huey Newton in 1970 after posting bail pending retrial on his 1967 voluntary manslaughter charge. The Black and white silver gelatin original Press photograph measures 10" x 8.5" inches. In 1967, Huey P. Newton was charged with voluntary manslaugher after shooting a white Oakland policeman. Newton was jailed.....
Genius of Huey P. Newton. by Newton, Huey P. San Francisco: Ministry of Information, [circa 1970]. 4 pages. First edition staplebound pamphlet with an introduction by Eldridge Cleaver. Includes writings by Black Panther Party Minister of Defense Huey P Newton on subjects such as the Peace Movement, Prison, and the.....
A legal study of the trial of New Haven Black Panther Lonnie McLucas. Published from Winter 1970 edition of the "Yale Review of Law and Social Action". Commentary by Charles Reich, Thomas Emerson, J. Otis Cochran. 55 pages. 11" x 8.5" inches. This booklet provides commentary from legal scholars, an.....
The Movement. Vol. 5, No. 12, San Francisco, The Movement Press, January 1970. First Edition. 24 pages. 17" x 11.5" inches. This issue of The Movement memorializes Fred Hampton, Black Panther leader who was assassinated by the Chicago Police Department and the FBI. An informant had infiltrated Hampton's inner circle.....
“Liberte pour Angela!” French Communist newspapers call to Free Angela Davis. February 1972. Bulletin de l’APN. Published by official Soviet news agency in France, L’Agence de Presse Novosti. In French. 4 pages. 17 x 12 inches. Image of Angela Davis with raised fist on front cover. 2 illustrated portraits of.....
Thompson, Perry C., Editor, Fayette Avery McKenzie et al. Fisk University News: volume 6, no.6, Nashville Tenn. March, 1916. 32p., 6x9 inches, booklet in stapled gray wraps printed blue. Editorials, letters, sports, results, arts, club, news, and other material appears in this special "Student Number," compiled by the students themselves.....