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Freeport, NY: : Books for Libaries Press,, 1971.. Hardcover -. Ex-library but with relatively few markings and overall tight, clean and sturdy in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. . Facsimile edition. A work by this pioneering Black education and activist, originally published in 1896. Includes a brief biographical sketch by Edward L. Parks, and talks given by Crogman over the 13 years preceding publication, all related to "the race of which I am a member" as he noted. Among the subjects are Frederick Douglass, Bishop Atticus Haywood, the 26th and the 32nd anniversaries of the Emancipation Proclamation, and Negro education, needs and claims. xxiii, 330 pp.

Lincoln:: University of Nebraska Press,, (2002). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) "In the first half of the twentieth century, pro basketball was tainted by racism, as gifted African Americans were denied the opportunity to display their talents. Through in-depth interviews with players, their families, coaches, teammates, and league officials, Ron Thomas tells the largely untold story of what basketball was really like for the first black NBA players, including recent Hall of Fame inductee Earl Lloyd, early superstars such as Maurice Stokes and Bill Russell, and the leagues first black coaches." Includes a list of the Black players from 1950-1965, notes. 262 pp plus 12 pp of photographs.

Naperville, IL:: Ebony Magazine / Sourcebooks,, (2022). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in illustrated boards (a new copy but upper corner bumped).. First printing. Beautiful full color photographs by Augustus. Foreword by Forest Whitaker and afterword by Niecy Nash. List of actors with small photographs. Index. SIGNED on the title page with "love always." Large square format. 227 pp.

New Orleans, LA:: Hope Publications, (ca 1963, c 1956). Near fine in yellow illustrated wrappers with titles (slight soiling to covers).. Early printing. The history of New Orleans's legendary voodoo queen. From the preface: "This book is written chiefly for the reader's entertainment and amusement; it is historically correct so far as possible, but the stories of the miraculous achievements attributed to the persons involved in Voodooism are from tales handed down, and while there is much truth in them there are also some fabrications and additions which seemed necessary in order to create the atmosphere of the times; that is, to show the manner of life in the community when the greater number of inhabitants considered Voodoism and animism with much seriousness." Also includes Outwitting the Yankee; Charles the Grinder; Gris Gris on His Doorstep Drove Him Mad; Palmistry Is One of the Oldest of Predictive Systems; and more. Illustrated with drawings. Bibliography, 96 pp. 

Boston:: Beacon Press,, (2016). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A coming-of-age memoir by this award-winning pop music critic and culture journalist, which describes his life as a young boy in rural Arkansas who searches for himself and his distant father, a disturbed Vietnam veteran, through soul music. An elegiac look at a childhood marked by violence, dysfunction, poverty, sorrowand plenty of good music. (Kirkus Reviews) 230 pp.

New York:: Coward-McCann,, (1970). Hardcover first edition -. Good only in a good dustjacket (some highlighting to text, a tear on the front cover of the dj with associated creasing, price clipped.). First printing. A book intended to be controversial, one that reevaluates the role of King and, among other points, argues that MLK was a product of the media and society and offered no real threat to the Establishment. 221 pp.

New York:: Dutton, (1999). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing The first book by this journalist, who with a bicultural heritage - he was born of an African American mother and Congolese father and reared in California, Boston, Tanzania, and the Congo - which offers an "evenhanded and encyclopedic examination of the facts and fictions that have grown on both sides of the Atlantic." Notes, bibliography, index. xiv, 384 pp.

New York:: Franklin Watts,, 1990.. Hardcover first edition -. Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine unmarked dj.. First printing. A biography for older children and young adults of this lifelong activist for equal rights by these award winning writers. "DuBois, conducted a lifelong crusade to insure that every person, regardless of race, had all the rights, privileges, and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. The McKissacks reveal his frustration with the divisiveness within the movement and among its leaders, causing him to embrace the socialist movement and eventually to become a member of the Communist party. His self-exile to Ghana and becoming a citizen of that nation is briefly mentioned." Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. A title in the Impact Biographies Series. Appendix of the writings of DuBois, source notes, bibliography, index. 143 pp.

New York:: Harper Collins,, (2021). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A book which begins with an act of shocking violence: ÒWhen I was sixteen, my sixteen-year-old cousin, Karen, had her face blown off at pointblank range by a sawed-off shotgun . . .Ó In 1981, Elle Johnson and her cousin, Karen, were both daughters of Black law enforcement officers. both very protective - but also unwilling to discuss the events behind the murder and the manhunt that followed. It was only many years later, when the author was asked by a cousin to write a statement opposing parole for the killer that she realized she needed to understand more about what happened. Michael Connelly calls this "a powerful dissertation on the legacy of violence; a telling journey to the place in the heart where forgiveness is found. Elle JohnsonÕs words are beautiful, poignant, and painful; and always deeply resonant with truth. This book has an echo that stays… Leer más

El Cerrito, CA:: Downey Place Publishing House,, 1990.. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (prev owner's name inside front cover).. First printing, a trade paperback original. Uncommon study of this Black journalist and writer. Beasley was the first to produce a history of Black Californians and she was, for almost two decades, a featured columnist with Oakland Tribune. Illustrated with photographs. Footnotes, index. vii, 66 pp.

New York:: Walker,, (1992). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A book which is part oral history, part autobiography - a memoir of "the extended Archer family, which weathered the Depression and other travails in Tchula, Mississippi. . . Growing up in the '30s and '40s in a large, warm, self-sufficient family, the author feels that he was in a way insulated from the racial harshness of the urban South. Although he experienced segregation, endured brushes with the Ku Klux Klan and was raised among the 'poorest of the poor,' Archer enjoyed singular richness in family and a heritage of religious faith, ambition and attachment to a bountiful land. , this reflective exploration of roots offers an intimate glimpse of how it once was for particular blacks in the rural Deep South." (Publishers Weekly) Illustrated with photographs. Includes resources for research into Black history, index. xvi, 156 pp.

Westport CT / London:: Meckler Publishing,, 1981.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Uncommon.. First edition. Part of a series collecting interviews in a black women oral history project, sponsored by Radcliffe College's Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Between 1976 to 1981. 72 Black women from all over the United States were interviewed - they had had careers in education, law, the arts, business, medicine and more - and represented a cross section of women of African descent who had made significant contributions to American society in the early and mid-20th century. The women range from Jessie Harriet (Scott) Abbott, who was involved in the Tuskegee community since 1923 to Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West and Arline (Stewart) Yarbrough, a civil service worker, business owner and activist in the Seattle area. List of participants. Index. xv, 152 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC:: University of North Carolina Press, 1925.. Hardcover first edition -. Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall a good copy, tight and sturdy in very dark blue cloth with gilt lettering (corners bumped, a bit of wear to the ends of the spine covering). First edition. The second of Odum's three classic works on African American music. As noted in the preface, the songs in this volume were collected in northern Mississippi and northern Georgia, with a few other songs and fragments from North Carolina and Tennessee included for comparative purposes. They are divided into three categories: religious songs (the largest group), social songs, and work songs. Much of the book consists of the lyrics to the songs. Includes a select bibliography, and an index to the songs. vii, 306 pp.

Saint Paul, Minnesota:: Macalaster Park Publishing Co, , (c 1939). Near fine in stapled blue printed wrappers (some toning to pages and covers) .. Early printing. A very early printing of this little booklet which describes the friendship between Dr Carver and the author, a biography which focuses on the spiritual side of Carver, more than his accomplishments as a scientist, botanist, educator and inventor. Indicates thirtieth thousand on the title page. 64 pp.

Beverly HIlls, CA & London:: Sage Publications, , (1985, c.1980.). Fair condition (highlighting, some wear to covers, but still tight and sturdy) . Trade paperback. A thought-provoking collection of essays about Black women, past and present, by Black women. Among the contributors are Gloria Wade-Gayle, Christina Harrington, Willie Mae Hemmons and the editor. References at the end of each article. A Sage Focus Edition. 316 pp.

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, (1999). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A study which follows a dozen people who sell on the streets of Greenwich Village - mostly secondhand books and scavenged goods - over a period of five years, illustrated with photographs by Ovie Carter, "as they do their best to live successfully on their own terms, with all the good and bad consequences that entail. Some of these people (almost all men) are drug addicts and some of them choose to live as 'unhoused' individuals. But many of them find a strong sense of purpose and identity in their work and choose to live in ways that best facilitate that work; they are as motivated - more, perhaps - -as workers holding 'respectable' office jobs." Winner of the 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Author "Beyond its sensitive portrayal of black men living on the margins of society, SIDEWALK is a testament to the survival skills of a people who from… Leer más

New York:: Doubleday,, (1989). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. Cosby's third book, one which seems ironical in view of his conviction for sexual assault. Introduction by Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D. 188 pp.

New York:: Scholastic,, (1994). Fine in illustrated wrappers.. 1st trade paperback printing. Autobiography of the woman who sparked the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in 1955, but this goes beyond that incident to tell the story of her life as a catalyst in the movement for equal rights. Written for older children. Illustrated with photographs. Chronology, index. 192 pp.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2004.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A full-scale biography of Jack Johnson - the first black heavyweight champion in history, and the most celebrated - and most reviled - African American of his age. "At a time when whites ran everything in America, he took orders from no one and resolved to live as if color did not exist. While most blacks struggled just to survive, he reveled in his riches and his fame. And at a time when the mere suspicion that a black man had flirted with a white woman could cost him his life, he insisted on sleeping with whomever he pleased, and married three. Because he did so the federal government set out to destroy him, and he was forced to endure a year of prison and seven years of exile." This draws on much new material, including Johnson's never-before-published prison memoir. Illustrated with more than fifty photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. Slightly oversized format. 492 pp.

New York:: Amistad / Harper Collins, , (2021). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A book by the author of the novel 'Queen Sugar' which "brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black peoples connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45,000. Older black farmers explain why they continue to farm despite systemic discrimination and land loss. The 'Returning Generation' - young farmers, who are building upon the legacy of their ancestors - talk about the challenges they face as they seek to redress issues of food justice, food sovereignty, and reparations" Among the contributors are historians Analena Hope Hassberg and Pete Daniel, author Clyde W. Ford, who considers the arrival of Africans to American shores; and Michael Twitty, who discusses black culinary… Leer más