Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. Paperback. Revised Edition. xix, [1], 403 p.: illustration, maps; 23 cm. Paperback. Winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Eugene M. Kayden National University Press Book Award, and the Jules and Frances Landry Award. In 1861 a group of slaves in Adams..... More
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. Hardcover. xi, [1], 410 p., [16] p. of illustrations: in-text maps; 24 cm. Grey cloth with black spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Part of the series Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century. Book is in Near Fine-..... More
London: Penguin, 2005. Paperback. xxiv, 168 p.20 cm. Paperback. First published in 1868. Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (1818-1907) was born a slave and purchased her own freedom at the age of 37; she proceeded to become a successful dressmaker in Washington, D.C. One of her clients was the First Lady, Mary..... More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994. Paperback. xxviii, 275 p.: illustrations, tables,maps; 21 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. An expanded and updated edition of the work, first published in 1983. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed; marginal notations and underlining on a few pages; otherwise, clean and tight... More
New York: Garland Publishing, 1991. Hardcover. "A Ten-Volume Collection of Articles Surveying the Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural Development of Black Urban Communities." [12], 431 p.: illustrations, tables; 24 cm. Light green cloth with dark green spine title. No dust jacket (as issued?). Contains articles by Ted Tunnell, Altina L...... More
New York: Garland Publishing, 1991. Hardcover. "A Ten-Volume Collection of Articles Surveying the Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural Development of Black Urban Communities." 2 vols: [12], 287 p.; [10], 348 p.: illustrations, maps, tables, charts; 24 cm. Light green cloth with dark green spine title. No dust jacket (as issued?)..... More
New York: Garland Publishing, 1991. Hardcover. "A Ten-Volume Collection of Articles Surveying the Social, Political, Economic, and Cultural Development of Black Urban Communities." [12], 343 p.: illustrations, maps, tables; 24 cm. Light green cloth with dark green spine title. No dust jacket (as issued?). Contains articles by Raymond A. Mohl..... More
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. Paperback. xv, [3], 214 p.; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contains essays by Bernard R. Boxill, Leonard Harris, Howard McGary, Tommy L. Lott, Bill E. Lawson, Anita L. Allen, Albert G. Mosley, Frank M. Kirkland, and Cornel West. This "collection of original essays is..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Hardcover. xvi, 445, [1] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Blue cloth with silver spine title. Black endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Part of the series Women in Culture and Society, edited by Catharine R. Stimpson. "In this pathbreaking study, Micaela di Leonardo reveals the face of..... More
Marietta, GA: Top Shelf Productions, 2014. Paperback. Third printing, May 2014. 121, [7] p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Graphic novel with illustrated cover. This is the first volume in the March trilogy, presenting the American civil rights movement as experienced by John Lewis (1940-2020), who represented Georgia in Congress from 1987..... More
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1991. Paperback. Second impression. xvi, 519, [1] p.: tables; 23 cm. Paperback. "Based on a ten-year study, The Black Church in the African American Experience is the largest nongovernmental survey of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and the first major field study since..... More
St. Paul, MN: Great Northern Railway Co., 1947. Paperback. 11, [1] p., 24 color plates (loose, as issued); 28 cm. Stapled booklet and 24 color plates (31 x 23 cm.), housed in the original envelope (24 x 32 cm.). The envelope is printed in red and blue, and copyrighted 1940..... More
New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1970. Paperback. "A Delta Book." Third Printing. [8], 131 p.; 20 cm. Paperback. Photograph of Eldridge Cleaver by Gerhard E. Gscheidle on the back cover. American writer and political activist Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998) lived in exile from the United States in Cuba, Algeria, and Paris..... More
Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1999. Hardcover. Part of the Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies. xix, [3], 305, [1] p.; 24 cm. Brown cloth with gilt spine title. No dust jacket, as issued. The author examines public events that occured in New York City from..... More
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2008. Paperback. xiv, 312 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. The author asserts that the attacks on the Black residents of East St. Louis, Illinois, on July 2 and 3, 1917, were a pogrom -- "an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group -- orchestrated by certain..... More
New York: New Viewpoints, Franklin Watts, 1978. Paperback. 191, [1] p.; 21 cm. Paperback. The author "places southern history in the broadest context of world affairs, and in so doing illuminates aspects of the South often missed by American scholars." -- back cover. In Near Fine Condition: cover is slightly..... More
Boston: South End Press, 1997. Paperback. xxiv, 255, [1] p.; 22 cm. Paperback. In Very Good Condition: cover is slightly rubbed; front cover curves up; one creased page corner; otherwise, clean and tight. More
New York: Dover Publications, 1972. Paperback. 2 volumes: x, [1], 6-460 p.; xiv, 461-822, [8] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperbacks with illustrated covers. Includes bibliography and index. Publisher's catalog on 6 pages following text in vol. 2. Gift inscription on first (blank) page of each volume covered with blank bookplate..... More
Los Angeles: Pines One Publishing, 1994. Paperback. xxii, [2], 360 p.; 21 cm. Paperback. "Julianne Malveaux is the most provocative, progressive and iconoclastic public intellectual in the country. Her writings not only unsettle prevailing prejudices and undo conventional presuppositions; they also provoke passionate responses -- positive or negative -- precisely..... More
Syracuse, N.Y. Syracuse University Press, 1998. Paperback. xvii, [3], 309, [3] p.; 20 cm. Paperback. Part of the series New York Classics. "Mount Allegro is an extraordinary memoir, a celebration of Sicilian life, an engaging sociological portrait, a moving reminiscence of a fledgling writer's escape from the restrictive culture in..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Paperback. x, 164 p.: illustration, tables, graphs; 23 cm. Paperback. Part of the series Long-Term Factors in Economic Development. In Fine Condition: clean and tight. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Hardcover. x, [4], 333 p., [16] p. of illustrations: tables; 24 cm. Yellow cloth spine with black spine title; black paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. The author interviewed hundreds of the 1,000+ volunteers, largely white college students from the North, who had travelled..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1979. Paperback. xi, [1], 394 p., [8] p. of illustrations: portraits, maps, tables; 20 cm. Stated First Edition. Paperback. In Very Good+ Condition: cover is lightly soiled; edges rubbed; pages are clean and tight. More
New York: Broadway Music Corp. 1915. Sheet_music. 5, [1] p.: music; 35 cm. Wrapper printed in blue and orange. Sheet music for piano and voice. Wrapper illustration by Andre de Takacs of an older black man playing a ukulele with two Hawaiian women peeking through the bamboo behind him. Publisher's..... More
Philadelphia: Temple University, 1994. ii, 86 leaves; 28 cm. Loose. Includes a detailed account of the rioting that occurred in Newark, N.J., in July 1967 following the arrest and beating of a Black cab driver and the subsequent involvement of the National Guard. In Very Good Condition: rust on title..... More