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Benjamin Banneker [Cover title: The Story of Benjamin Banneker]

Flossie E. Thompson-Peters; Kathy Clo [illus.]
Los Angeles, CA: Atlas Press, 1986. Very Good. Los Angeles: CA: Atlas Press, 1986. First Edition, stated first printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm); publisher's pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 32pp.; illus. Wrappers a bit soiled and worn from handling, internally clean and sound. Very Good…
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Black Caucus. ABSW Journal. Vol. IIII no. II, Spring 72. [Mental health & poverty issue]

Single issue, 52 pp. Two folded sheets, one letter and a volunteer form, are laid in, 8vo. Veery good. Saddle stapled, green cardstock covers. [2829]
The mental health and poverty issue of the journal serving members of the National Association of Black Social Workers, Inc., "the foremost…
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Black Child

Thomas, Joyce and Tom Feelings (illus.)
First Edition. 36 pp. text with illustrations. 8vo [8.5 x 5.5 outer wrappers, with interior text block 6.75 x 5.5 in.] Very good. Illus. wrappers with marginal handling marks. [2827]
Illustrated poetry publication, which has been cleverly designed with an overhanging cover utilized for…
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In the Land of The Soviets. Guide to the City of Moscow. A Handbook for Tourists

[Chambers, J. Clarence]
First edition of this 1930s guide book to the Soviet Union, with the ownership inscription of African physician and medical administrator J. Clarence Chambers Jr., then of the Harlem Hospital, to the front pastedown. Illustrated guide book collated complete with six maps present (one being…
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From the Dead Level: Malcolm X and Me [Black Association]

Jamal, Hakim A. (1931 - 1973)
London: Andre Deutsch, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. A VISCERAL AND SCARCE PRIMARY ACCOUNT OF THE TRANSFORMATION OF HAKIM JAMAL UNDER THE MENTORSHIP OF MALCOLM X. From his origins as a heroin addict in Boston to his role as the president of the Malcolm X…
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The American Anti-Slavery Almanac, for 1837

The second yearly American Anti-Slavery Almanac, combining abolitionist activism with a practical yearly farmer's almanac. Collated and complete with 48pp., binding recently resewn, loss to bottom corner of front cover without effecting text, and thinning to paper along bottom margin, likely…
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[AFRICAN-AMERICANA / FUNERAL HOME / MORTUARY]. 1943 Calendar ("Season's Greetings")

Williams & McNabb Mortuary
Columbus, Ohio: Williams & McNabb Mortuary, 1942. Backing board printed in black and silver (400 x 257 mm; browned, chipped around edges with significant loss, verso with multiple pieces of transparent tape) to which is affixed a color-printed illustration (227 x 175 mm) of a woman (smiling)…
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Afro-American World Almanac: What Do You Know About Your Race? [cover title]

[African Americana]
[Chicago], 1943. Very good.. 112pp. Original printed red wrappers, stapled. Light wear at corners and along spine. Even toning internally. The 1943 issue of an irregularly-published almanac aimed at uplifting the African-American community. The author, Rev. Ross D. Brown, writes rather…
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'American Martyrs' - Original Editorial Cartoon Artwork Responding to the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (1968)

Teetsel, Walt (Editorial Cartoonist, Springfield Daily News)
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This striking original work of political illustration captures the immediate atmosphere of national mourning following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Unlike syndicated art, this regional piece by Walt Teetsel represents the "Front Line" of American journalism, showing…
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We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People

New York: Civil Rights Congress, 1952. 6 ¼ x 9 ¼ in. Third edition. Offset. Perfect bound in pictorial wraps. xiii, 240 pp. Very good, with bumping and minor loss to corners and edges of wraps. The groundbreaking petition delivered to the United Nations on December 17, 1951 and…
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Almost Every Day the Slaves Are Flying to Our Lines for Protection": Partial Civil War Letter Describing Escaping Enslaved People Seeking Refuge with Union Forces and the Growing Anti-Slavery Sentiment of the Rank and File

[Civil War - Union Soldiers and Emancipation - Contrabands] "Reuben
Unknown place, Unknown date. Partial autograph letter signed "Reuben" to his wife. Remaining portion only. A surviving portion of a Civil War soldier's letter to his wife, discussing enslavement and the arrival of enslaved people into Union lines. Though incomplete, the letter preserves…
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State of Alabama vs Bobb a slave [supplied title]; Alabama Jail Accounting Recording 244 Days of Confinement of an Enslaved Man, with Clothing Charges and Administrative Expenses, Cahaba, Alabama

[African-American Enslavement - Alabama - Carceral History - Legal Administration] Alabama / Dallas County Sheriff
Cahaba, Alabama, 1854. Single sheet measuring 8 x 7 inches. Some folds. Fine condition.. A stark Alabama slavery document recording the costs associated with the imprisonment of an enslaved man identified only as "Bobb," issued from Dallas County and dated at Cahaba, Alabama, May 17, 1854…
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