The Alvin Ailey City Center Dance Theater
Oklahoma City: Black Liberated Arts Center, Inc., n.d. [later 1970s]. Paperback. (8)p. Original wrapper (unevenly faded). 28cm. More
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Celebrating Our Legacy: Art in the Atrium and the Morris Museum Presents the 20th Anniversary Exhibit January 12-March 18, 2012 Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey
Morristown: Art in the Atrium, 2012. Paperback. color photos, (59)p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Modest curling at top right corner. Signed on half-title by Tarin Fuller, author of "Featured Artist Norman Lewis" (text at pages 5-8). More
Coming! A Colored Novelty Worth Booking REGENERATION: All Colored Cast. A Romance of the Southern Seas. Gripping Story! Romantic Setting! All Colored Cast! "A GIrl, a Man, Cast Upon an Uninhabited Island, a Garden of Eden. Then The Serpent -----"
Jacksonville, Florida: Norman Film Manufacturing Co., n.d. (ca. 1922 or 1923). Bifolium of four printed and illustrated pages. 30 cm. Two horizontal folds enabling this to fit in a business-sized envelope. Richard E. Norman, a white Floridian, is best known for the "race" films for African Americans which his company..... More
Diatribe: People of Color News Collective. Vol. 1, Issue 1 (October, 1922)
700 Eshleman Hall, UCBerkeley, Berkeley, CA: 1992. illustrated, 12p. Newsprint. 30 x 45 cm. Horizontal fold. Modest browning around edges. Successor to Third World Press which had debuted earlier in 1992. We don't know whether additional issues were published. More
The Emancipator and Weekly Chronicle, Vol. X, No. 31 (November 26, 1845)
Boston: Hiram Cummings, 1845. (4)p. Newspaper. Published weekly. 49 x 66 cm. Fold marks indicate that was folded not once but thrice. Some wear at edges. Light foxing. Inked signature ("J. G. Birney Esq") in an unknown hand (Birney's?) in upper left margin. An abolitionist weekly published in Boston. James..... More
Free Military School for Applicants for Command of Colored Troops, No. 1210 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Established by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, John H. Taggart, Late Colonel 12th Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, Chief Preceptor
Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers, 1864. 2nd ed. Paperback. 43p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Softcover. No separate wrapper present. The Free Military School enrolled a total of over 1000 applicants The school was established in December, 1863 and and gave brief training to many white civilians and soldiers..... More
Jesus Died for Both
Chicago: PP & F Co., c. 1911. Vintage Black & White Print. 41 x 51cm. Recently framed under glass in a flecked silver wooden frame. Light wear to the print, including a small hole near the inner elbow of the girl and some minor chips elsewhere. Some staining on protective..... More
The Negro History Bulletin, Vol. IV (October 1940-June 1941)
Washington: Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1940-1941. Hardcover. photos, 216p. plus index (3p.). Black cloth. original wrappers (included in pagination) bound in. 28 cm. Moderate cover spotting. Lettering on backstrip mostly gone. Internally sound and clean. No jacket (as published). Published nine times yearly -- no..... More
Reporting Civil Rights: Part One American Journalism 1941-1963 (and) American Journalism 1963-1973
New York: The Library of America, (c. 2003). 1st printing. Hardcover. 2 vols. index, xvi, 996, (5), xv, 986, (6)p. Neatly rebound iin full leather by Asprey. 20 cm. All edges gilt. An attractive set. More
Third Annual Negro Song Festival at the Gymnasium of the University of Kentucky Sunday, May 1, 1941. [caption title]
[Lexington?]: (1941). Paperback. Folded four-page mimeo program stapled at upper left corner a folding cover which has an appealing titled front page ("Negro Song Festival Lexington, Ky. U. K. Gym Sunday May 11") and three blank pages. 22 cm. Sponsored by the Music Department of the University of Kentucky, and..... More
Work Song: Greenville County Museum of Art May 15 through July 1, 1990, McKissick Museum September 2 through October 28, 1990.
Greenville County Museum of Art, (c. 1990). Paperback. [Exhibition catalog] illustrations (some color), 32p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Front free enpaper lightly spotted. Catalog for an exhibition at Greenville County Museum of Art, May 15 through July 1, 1990, and at McKissick Museum September 2 through October 28..... More
Extracts from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Reports of the Directors of the African Institution, Read at their Annual General Meetings, Held in London on the 11th Day of May, 1824, and on the 13th Day of May, 1825
Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph R. A. Skerrett, 1826. Paperback. 40p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). 21 cm. Moderate vertical crease. Minor foxing. No separate wrapper present. The extracts focus on the state of the slave trade and efforts to restrict or end that trade. More
Charles Alston (cover title) "Catalogue of Exhibition", December 3, 1968 through January 5, 1969. An exhibition of paintings and sculpture sponsored by Fairleigh Dickinson University
NY: Gallery of Modern Art Including the Huntington Hartford Collection, 1969. Paperback. [Exhibition Catalog] 2 black & white photos, Single folio-sized sheet printed on one side and folded to form an unnumbered 6-panel exhibition catalog. 23 cm. Minor foxing. Catalog for an exhibition sponsored by Farleigh Dickinson University and held..... More
Minutes of the Forty-Sixth Annual Session of the North Ohio Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Third Episcopal District Held in St. Paul A.M.E. Church Lima, Ohio Septemer 28 to October 2nd, 1927.
Cleveland: Printed by Wilfred-Gardner Pub. Co., (1927). Paperback. 99p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22cm. Cover soiling and modest wear. More
Minutes of the Forty-Eighth Annual Session of the North Ohio Conference of the African Methodisst Episcopal Church Third Episcopal District Held in St. Matthew A. M. E. Church Lorain, Ohio October 9 to October 13, 1929
Lorain, Ohio: (1929). Paperback. 99p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22cm. Front and back covers detached; most of the backstrip lacking. Contents browned and somewhat worn. [Website Only]. More
Lonnell Williams Post 143 ... presents the Annual Lincoln's Day Birthday Address Wednesday, February 12, 1947 Burt High School Auditorium Program
Clarksville, Tennessee: 1947. 4p. folded Program. 22 cm. Cover slighlty soiled with fading on edges. Roscoe Conklin Simmons, a nephew of Booker T. Washington and the scheduled speaker, was a Republican Party functionary, a newspaper columnist and a popular orator at African American events. No subject is given for his..... More
The NAACP Legislative Scoreboard: The Civil Rights Crisis and the 84th Congress
Greenwood, Mississippi: (1957). Paperback. 15p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Minor cover wear. White supremacist organization. [Website Only]. More
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One Fourth of Washington. [cover title]
[Washington?]: n.d [1886?]. Hardcover. [8] unbound plates in modest gray portfolio boards. The whole is tied together with two red ribbons threaded through cover slits. 25cm. Some chipping and soiling on portfolio covers. Ribbon ragged on one end (missing the tip). Plates in nice condition with just a touch of..... More
Review of Pamphlets on Slavery and Colonization. First Published in the Quarterly Christian Spectator, for March, 1833
New Haven: A. H. Maltby, 1833. Second Separate edition [so stated]. Paperback. 24p. Pamphlet. 23 cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Foxing (fairly heavy on title-leaf, light elsewhere). Six digit number stamped at top of first text leaf. No separate wrapper present. Bacon was one of the leading lights..... More
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Historical Echo of M. & E. State Convention of Illinois. [cover title]
n.p. n.d. [Preface dated 1954]. Hardcover. 100 + photos (black & shite), 82p. Original blue cloth. 28cm. Gouged area on backstrip. Slightly swaybacked. Contents sound. No Jacket. Martha P. Anderson is listed as General Chairman --0presumably of the committee which produced this loosely organized history of this Illinois convention of..... More
Columbus March, by Blind Tom
Philadelphia: J. Marsh; New York: S. T. Gordon; Boston: O. Ditson & Co., 1865. 1st ed. [we presume although it is possibly that not all three publisher's were initially listed]. title-leaf, blank on back, 3p. music. Final page contains an advertisement for Marsh's Music Store, No. 1029 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia..... More
T.L.S. on Bank Letterhead Stationery attempting to recover $50 on a check deposited in that bank with a forged signature. Signed by C. N. Langston. Cashier. Dated November 7, 1925
28 cm. Jesse Binga was an important figure in Chicago's African American community and opened BInga State Bank in Chicago in 1921. The bank did not survive the depression and Binga ended up imprisoned for three years for embezzlement as the result of trying to conceal some assts. Langston, the..... More
Put-Ons & Put-Downs
New York: Parallax Publishing Company, (c. 1967). Mort Drucker and Neal Adams. Paperback. 44 unnumbered pages cartoons. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Cover partially split along fold. INSCRIBED inside front cover by Cambridge "To Peter Its been a pleasure working with you, your talent and devotion are something I...... More
Cuties in Arms
Philadelphia: McKay, (c. 1942). 1st ed. Hardcover. illustrations, (94)p. Origiinal pictorial boards. No jacket. 19 cm. Modest cover soiling and wear. Spine moderately sloped. Campbell, an African American, was a successful cartoonist, particularly with Esquire magazine. There were no African American characters in his Esquire cartoons and there are none..... More
The San Jose Scale in Alabama
Tuskegee: Tuskegee Institute Steam Press, 1906. 1st ed. Paperback. 10p. Wrapper. 21cm. Moderate vertical crease. Experiment Station. Bulletin No. 9. The San Jose Scale is a tiny, unwelcome insect found particularly on fruit trees. Cardoza is identified as on the Tuskegee Experiment Stations' s staff for Horticulture. We know nothing..... More