The Second Battle of New Orleans The Hundred Year Struggle to Integrate the Schools
New York: Harper Collins, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. xii, 564 pages. Illustrated section. More
African American
Free at Last A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War
New York: The New Press, 1992. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover with color illustrated dust jacket. xxxiii, 571 pages. Illustrations. Light shelf wear to the jacket. Remains of an old price sticker on the front dust jacket. More
Black Jacks African American Seamen in the Age of Sail
Signed by the author on the title page. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. Third printing. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. xiv, 310 pages, [5]. Illustrated section. Signed by the author on the title page. Previous owner's name on the right front flyleaf. More
The Negro Question A Selection of Writings on Civil Rights in the South
Garden City: Doubleday, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. xx, [1], 286 pages, [2]. Light foxing to the end papers and foredge. Lightly worn dust jacket. More
The Black Military Experience in the American West
New York: Liveright, 1973. Shorter edition. Paperback. Paperback. xvi, [1], 428 pages. Illustrated. Gift inscription written on the half title page. Light crease to the back cover lower left corner. More
Long Old Road
An autobiography. New York: Trident Press, 1965. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover with dust jacket. [5], 402 pages, [1]. Dust jacket has a gold printed sticker on the front dust jacket. Jacket is shelf worn with creases and a small chip on the back cover. More
A Gullah Alphabet
Orangeburg, South Carolina: Sandlapper Publishing Co. Inc., 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 56 pages. Illustrated. Glossy illustrated hardcovers. Note: The author Willis is mispelled "Willlis" on the front cover. More
I've Been Marching All the Time An Autobiography
Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. x, 261 pages. Photograph illustrated section. Faint stamp, "Ref New", on the right front flyleaf. No other markings in the book. From the dust jacket blurb - "As she drove him to the Atlanta airport for what..... More
Polished Ebony
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1919. Hardcover. 12mo. [5], 309 pages. Dark cloth hardcover with title and illustration in yellow on the front cover. Yellow title on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece illustration and 3 illustrations in text. Light occasional foxing to the contents. Light shelf wear to the cloth..... More
Dancing to a Black Man's Tune. A Life of Scott Joplin.
Missouri Biography Series edited by William E. Foley. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994. Hardcover. Octavo. xx, [1], 265 pages. Illustrated. Gold binding with title in black on spine. Illustrated dust jacket with title and portrait of Joplin on cover. Inscribed, signed by the author on the right front flyleaf..... More
Negro Education A Study of the Private and Higher Schools For Colored People in the United States
Prepared in Cooperation with the Phelps-Stokes Fund Under the Direction of Thomas Jesse Jones, Specialist in the Education of Racial Groups, Bureau of Education. In Two volumes. Department of the Interior Bureau of Education Bulletin, 1916, No. 38, 39. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1917. Hardcover. Quartos. Two volumes. Volume..... More
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave Written by Himself
A John Harvard Library Book. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969. Fourth printing. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover with illustrated, price clipped dust jacket. 163 pages, [1]. Illustrated with one map in text. Fading and damp staining to the blue cloth. Light edge and shelf wear to the jacket..... More
I May Not Get There With You The True Martin Luther King, Jr.
New York: The Free Press, 2000. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. xii, 404 pages. More
John Brown One Man Against Slavery
New York: Rizzoli, 1993. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover with color illustrated dust jacket. 32 pages. Illustrated in color by Jacob Lawrence. Light surface wear to the dust jacket. More
The Potomac Chronicle: Public Policy & Civil Rights from Kennedy to Reagan
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. xxvi, 285 pages. Book includes laid in publishers statement in recognition of the Potomac Institute's historic work. More
The African-American Century How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country
New York: The Free Press, 2000. Hardcover. Small quarto. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. xvi, [1], 414 pages. Illustrated. More
Blackface Reflections on African-Americans and the Movies
New York: Harper Collins, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 224 pages. Illustrated. More
Men of Color
Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, 1993. Paperback. Tall paperback. 227 pages. Glossy covers with a Don Troiani illustration on the front cover. The preliminary pages and first 20 pages are creased on the edges. "Eastern National" price sticker on the back cover. Contents have several appencicies and cite several sources. A good..... More
The Sweeter The Juice
A Family Memoir in Black and White. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover with color illustrated dust jacket. 271 pages. Illustrated with a photograph section. More
Roots The Saga of an American Family
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. viii, [1], 587 pages, [1]. Stated first edition with price of 12.50 on the inner front dust jacket flap. Light toning to the verso of the jacket and to the end papers. More
Negro Spirituals Arranged for Mixed Voices
Winona Lake, Indiana: The Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Co., 1939. Wraps. Stapled, decorative wraps. 48 pages. 3 pages of text plus words and music to 12 spirituals. Thin spine is worn else very good. More
The New York Conspiracy, or A History of the Negro Plot, With The Journal of the Proceedings Against the Conspirators at New York in the Years 1741-2.
Together with Several Interesting Tables-Containing the Names of the White and Black Persons arrested on account of the Conspiracy-the times of their Trials-their Sentences-their Executions by Burning and Hanging--Names of those Transported, and those Discharged. New York: Negro University Press, 1969. Facsimile. Hardcover. Octavo. 385 pages, [7] pages list account..... More
Paul Robeson The American Othello
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. x, 228 pages. Maroon cloth hardcover has some faded spots on both covers. The dust jacket is lightly shelf worn. A few spots to the top edge of the end sheets in back. More
A Pictorial History of the Negro in America
New York: Crown, n.d. Third Revised Edition. Paperback. Paperback. 380 pages. Illustrated. Shelf wear to the covers. Brown spots to the half title page. Toning to the foredge. A fair or better copy. More
A Pictorial History of African Americans
New York: Crown Publishers, 1995. Sixth edition. Hardcover. Tall quarto hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. [2], 428 pages. Illustrated. Remnants of an old price sticker on the front dust jacket. More