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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An Analysis of Social Disorder and a Plan of Action Against Poverty, Discrimination and Racism in Urban ” First Edition unpublished mimeograph draft. 5 pages plus cover.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.....
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. 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.....
King, Martin Luther. Original speech relating to King’s last March on Washington, 1967-8, which he dubbed “The Poor People’s Campaign,” cut short due to his assassination. First Edition. Original press statement, 5 pages. This speech, dated March 4, 1968 comes on the cusp of the campaign “We will begin this.....
ANTHONY, Susan B. Autograph Letter Signed. 1 page, dated August 1902. On National American Woman Suffrage Association Letterhead. Anthony writes in her hand with visible excitement about “what the Philadelphians are doing” to promote women’s suffrage. In addition to bringing in “600 members to her club,” they have also established.....
DOUGLASS, Frederick. Frederick Douglass. CDV of Frederick Douglass by J.W. Hurn: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. No date. Very rare original CDV photo of Douglass, Clipped corners of mat. The Library of Congress has no catalog data on this portrait and assigns no date to it. David W. Blight, ed., Narrative of the Life.....
KELLER, HELEN American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Exceptional Large colored photograph signed with a quotation in her hand. [N.p.: n.d]. Colored photograph depicting an older Keller in cap and gown, inscribed with a quotation on the.....
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. Solzhenitsyn’s Uncorrected Proof of The Gulag Archipelago. New York, 1974, 640 separate unbound and folded one sided sheets, as issued, each sheet has 2 pages on a 6.5” x 22” sheet with large blank bottom margin. A massive work that detailed the machinations of the Soviet police state.....
Robert Altman & Ring Lardner Jr. Original script of the film dubbed “perfect for the times [...] the cacophony of American culture brilliantly reproduced onscreen.” January 1969. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Original owner’s name on upper wrapper. Wrappers show a faint damp discoloration from the spine.....
John Tyndall. Tyndall published a complete work on the greenhouse effect in 1872, a century before the climate crisis became a rallying point for both the scientific community and the world at large. Autograph Letter Signed to poet Matthew Arnold. Two pages, 5.25" x 8.25" inches. Dated July 19th 1872.....
Carrie Chapman Catt. Leader in women's rights, protégé of Susan B. Anthony, and founder of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance (IWSA), which continues today to advocate on behalf of women's and girls' rights worldwide. 1 page Autograph Letter Signed on International Woman Suffrage Alliance letterhead circa 1906. Catt founded the.....
Archive of over 250 letters and paper materials concerning an interracial marriage. 1940s-50s. In addition to 130 handwritten letters, archive includes 30 typed letters and 115 pieces of paper ephemera including identification cards, handwritten poetry and illustrations by the child who was born from the union, drawn for his mother.....
An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties, and Literature of Negroes. H. Gregoire. Thomas Kirk: Brooklyn, 1810. Measures 6 x 9 inches. 253 pages. Original marbled boards. Henri Jean-Baptiste Gregoire was a French Catholic priest and the Constitutional bishop of Blois, a revolutionary leader who was an ardent abolitionist.....
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.....
32nd President typed letter signed on White House letterhead, Washington, January 4, 1937, to Nevada Governor Richman Kirman. As the United States industrialized, factory and mine owners hired children for a variety of tasks, as they were especially useful in fixing machinery and navigating the small areas that fully grown.....
[Contraception] Compilation of all 24 Birth Control Review issues from 1926 and 1927 bound together. 342 pages total. 11.75" x 9" inches. Original covers. Scarce. The Birth Control Review was a crucial communication tool used by Margaret Sanger, a leading activist for women's reproductive rights and the founder of Planned.....
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.....
Original Vintage Woman Suffrage Ladies' pocket watch with NY suffrage “VOTE FOR WOMEN” face, circa. 1910. The timepiece face also features a yellow rose in center and the phrase “VOTE FOR WOMEN” is replacing the 12 numbers typically on a clock face around the watch face. The yellow rose became.....
Women's Suffrage Party original slogan buttons. Iconic pins of the United States Women's Suffrage Party, or WSP, headed by Carrie Chapman Catt. Trio of extremely rare 1" oval button pins in excellent condition, in the bright yellow, purple, and green associated with the suffrage movement in the US and the.....
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.....
Extensive archive from Methodist minister and revivalist preacher Irving R. Lovejoy from 1880-1888. This archive of 334 handwritten pages by the Reverend includes 20 handwritten and handbound sermons totaling 219 pages. Also includes an additional 115 pages of handwritten notes (mostly related to sermons and religions), letters and personal documents.....
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.....
Langston Hughes. Signed contract with the Dramatists' Guild of the Author's League of America. Signed "Langston Hughes" above line designated "Author" on the "second day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty five." Measures 8" x 11" inches. The same year Hughes signed with the guild his play Mulatto debuted on.....
[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.....