Very nice, clean, tightly bound program -- tan cover with sepia photograph of then Congressman Charles Rangel on cover. Published for Ohio state NAACP conference at the Cascade Holiday Inn in Akron, Ohio October 4-6,1974 at which Rangel was welcomed. Local advertising, plus transcript of speech given by William McMillan, then president of the Akron NAACP. Also much information on discrimination in city jobs in Akron and resolutions concerning both that and schools. Measures 8-1/2"x11" qnd is marred only by one brown spot inear spie at front and another at back. View More...
Crisp, clean journals -- no spine creasing, no names or writing, pages and page edges pristine. Each measures 6"x9-1/4" and is the size of a quality paperback. Topics include, but are not limited to: Virginia Bernhard and the histriography of early Virginia; Muslims in Early America; Evangelical communities Twigg Co. Georgia 1820-1861; rape and the law in the Old South; antebellum southern fathers and health care of children; the case of Richard Bennet 1667-1749; Mississippi de;ta planters -- labor and civil rights 1940's; Jule Cartel and the Southern Farmers' Alliance and the afterma... View More...
Crisp, clean journals -- no spine creasing, no names or writing, pages and page edges pristine. Tiny tear to top front edge of one only fault. Each measures 6"x9-1/4" and is the size of a quality paperback. Topics include, but are not limited to: evangelical dissent Piedmont, Virginiana 1740-1755; Martin Van Buren and partisan politics of Texas Annexation; Julia Peterkin; the rape myth in the Old South reconsidered; interracial unionism in the Alabama coal fields1878-1908; racial classifications and Reconstruction legislation; and slave hair African American culture in the 18th and 19... View More...
Crisp, clean journals -- no spine creasing, no names or writing, pages and page edges pristine. Each measures 6"x9-1/4" and is the size of a quality paperback. Topics include, but are not limited to, the debate over flood control on the Lower Mississisppi 1846-1861; the Freedman's Bureau and white leaders in Virginia; the Spencer-Warner controversy; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Southern military schools 1865-1915; female education in an antebellum southern family; the Appalachian Volunteers in Eastern Kentucky 1964-1970; African American and white women Tennesse elections of 1919 and 1920; a... View More...
Crisp, beautiful, as new book. No tears or chips and no names or writing other than the signature of the author which appears on the half-title page. Publisher's price is on the back of the dustjacket and book will arrive in brand new mylar. The author takes on the myth that all African American basketball players are born with natural talent, which undermines the hard work the top stars invest in their future in the game. 228 pages. Indexed. View More...
Book itself is crisp and clean with no names or writing and no bumps to bright pumpkin colored boards. Jacket is quite good, but does show a rectagular shadow to front from a bookstore sticker adhered to noncoated paper which is why we don't dare try to remove it. Spine has also sunned on jacket and there is a small tear to bottom back corner with a small loss of color and mild soil to back outer side edge. Book has not been price-clipped and is most handsome in mylar.Originally published in a run of only 219 copies in 1953. Written by the Caribbean poet who rose to notoriety during the 1930's... View More...
Very nice clean book with no names or writing and no bumps to boards. White printing to spine id bright and readable. No dustjacket, but appears that it may have been designed that way, as the ISBN appears on the back of cover. Chapters are entitled: Black Suffrage and the Reluctant Republicans 1865-67; The Fluctuating Support for Black Suffrage 1867-1870; States Rights and Black Citizens; Methodists and Batists on the Issue of Black Equality; The Right to Education;; and Before the Ghetto -- Economic and Social Conditions During Reconstruction. 201 pages. Indexed. View More...
Very clean, tightly bound book, not too often seen. Small bit of wear to crown and tail of spine and a small errant white mark to front board. Pages are very clean throughout with no foxing. Former owner's name and date on front free endpaper (small) and to upper corner of front pastedown (smaller). Book measures 5-1/2"x8-1/2" . The author traces the history of the Freedman's Savings Bank from the need for such an institution following the Civil War, through its successes, its problems, the adminsitration of fFederick Douglas and its ultimate closing. 170 pages. Indexed. View More...
Crispo BRANDNEW book -- last one available. A compendium of essays by scholars who researched deeply the topic of African American soldiers in the Civil War known as "buffalo soldiers" and their proud legacy. 319 pages. Indexed. View More...
Beautiful book, clearly never read. It's bound in black leather and sports moire endpapers, four spine bands, a satin ribbon page marker, a lovely gilded design on both boards, and gilded edges on all three sides which gleam. This book is also Shirley Ann Grau's masterpiece. She has wirtiten many novels, but this one won the Pulitzer Prize for its theme of rage and racism. Grau is a Southern writer.The book measures 6" x 9" and has 327 pages. View More...
Very special book in excellent condition. No tears or chips, no writing, no price clip. Dustjacket protected by brand new mylar cover. Bookplate affixed to front free endpaper decorated with African motif and marked A Cultural Exchange, Cleveland, Ohio. Signed at top "For -----'s students. Virignia Hamilton." Beneath the signature of the late Virginia Hamilton is that of her husband, children's author, Arnold Adoff. Adoff's signature is always hard to decipher, but we matched it with another of his signed books. A lovely volume with stark black and white images. Traces the history of slavery... View More...
Crisp, clean as new book. Pristine inside and out with no names or writing, no bumps to boards, no tears or chips to jacket and no remainder mark. Dustacket will arrive in brand new mylar cover. A complilation of 12 essays into two parts: Understanding Diversity and Social Forces and Understanding Service Needs and Use. 258 pages, plus photos and bios for all contributors. View More...
Book is crisp and clean with snow white pages and page edges, No names or writing and no bumps to boards. The dustjacket is likewise clean wtih no tears or chips and looks handsome in a brand new mylar cover. There is no price on the front flap as per design. The author was a Belgian scientist who arrived in New Orleans in 1857 whereupon he found himself disturbed by the ongoing slavery. After a stint of helping slaves and Unionists excape from Confederate Texas to Mexico. Eventually he returned to Louisiana where he got a job at a Feench language paper, L'Union, which became the New Orleans... View More...
Crisp, BRAND new copy with small area at lower back corner near spine showing a small bit of peeling to outer lamination. Very minor. An encyclopedic approach to the abolitionist movement and its Underground Railroad. Covers the people, places, ideas and events associated with the Underground. Biographies of fugitive slaves, the struggle for euqality etc. all taken from primary resources. 308 pages. Indexed. View More...
ITEM # 8048 ANOTHER SENSE BY JILLIAN FOSTER KNIGHT PUB BY LADY OF LETTERS PRESS 1ST PRINTING , 1ST ED. 56 PGS 8 1/2 X8 HARD BACK LIMITED EDITION NUMBERED 29 OF 49 COPIES PRODUCED WRITTEN ,ILLUSTRATED AND HAND MADE BY JILLIAN FOSTER KNIGHT A VERY UNIQUE SIGNED ,NUMBERED LIMITED ED. . THE BOOK IT'S SELF IS A WORK OF ART [ POETRY ] View More...
Book showcases 155 black and white photographs taken by Julian Dimock in South Carolina from 1904-1905. Unlike most photographers of the time who photographedd the African American experience, Dumock neither politicized nor romanticized his subjects. The book measures 8-3/4" high and 10-1/4" across. 191 pages. Dustjacket will arrive in brand new mylar cover. View More...
Crisp, beautiful BRAND NEW book. Glossy pictorial laminated boards designed without dustjacket. Measures 7"x10'1/4" Illustrated sparsely with art and photographs.The author examines Klan violence toward former slaves, then emancipated, after the Civil War and how it incited some of its victims to retaliate. Examines the issue from both a historical and sociological perspective and recognizes the attempts of both sides to build a society which would reflect their own perceptions of morality and justice. 252 pages including index, bibliography and appendices. An interesting example of th... View More...
Crisp, BRAND NEW book. Laminated pictorial boards designed without dustjacket. Illustrated with black and white photos. A comprehensive account of the first championship series in 1924 between the Hilldale Giants and the Kansas City Monarchs each representing two all-Black professional leagues -- the Eastern Colored League and the Negro National League. Huge amount of info, including stats, team bios, position-by-position comparisons, attendance break-downs, gate receipts, team shares and game by games summaries in addition to narrative. 249 pages. Indexed. TWO like copies available. View More...
Crisp and clean with no defect of note. This is a 1972 collection of 22 poems by award winning poet, Clarence Major. For many years he taught at the college level and wrote poetry and novels. Major’s poetry and short stories have appeared in countless magazines and anthologies. In 2015, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Fine Arts, by The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. Booklet is not often seen. It measures 5-1/2" x 7-1/2" and has 22 pages View More...
This one looks like a plain Jane, but if you're interested in the great American author, William Faulkner, this would definitely be interesting, especially if you collect Faulkner. The book is clean and tightly bound and measures 7"x10" with 111 pages. Only fault is a small abrasion to upper front corner of cover. The author explores Faulkner's presentation of Black characters in his work by showing how he followed a moral compass. View More...
