San Francisco: Bethel A.M.E. Church, 1965. 8vo, single folded leaf, 4 pp. Program for a Negro History Week event held in 1965 at the Bethen African Methodist Episcopal Church in San Francisco. The theme for the event was "Negro Pioneers in California History," and the program prints a schedule of.....
Philadelphia: Willits Trust, 1889. Quarto, 11.75 x 9.25", [4] pp, removed from bound volume. Issue number 36 of this Quaker-produced periodical intended "for distribution among the colored people of the Southern States of the United States of American, and Liberia in Africa." The paper was founded by Charles L. Willits.....
New York: National Urban League, 1951. Quarto, 11.75 x 9", purple boards, [10], 128 pp, illustrations from photographs. A yearbook commemorating the 50th anniversary of the National Urban League. Includes a series of essays by African American scholars and professionals, as well as blurbs about National Urban League chapters throughout.....
Various Places: 1953. A collection of letters, photographs, and ephemera belonging to the McAfee family, an African American military family from Tyler, Texas. According to government records, John McAfee served in the military, as did three of his children, John, Travis and Rudolph. The majority of these items belonged to.....
Various Places: 1950s to 1980s. A collection of photographs, letters and reports documenting the missionary work of the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention, an African American Baptist denomination. The materials document National Baptist missions in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and date from the 1950s through.....
No Place of Publication: No Date [Circa 1930s]. Folding leaflet measuring 7.5 x 5.5" promoting to Pullman train car cleaners membership in the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, founded in 1925 as the first African American led labor organization to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor. The.....
Haverhill, Massachusetts: 1920. Small quarto, 9.25 x 7", pink "Our Baby's Record" book published in 1909 by the Dodge Publishing Company. Contains five photographs and four ephemeral items accompanied by captions, as well as six preprinted pages containing manuscript, and a page of manuscript laid in. A baby book for.....
[North Carolina]: Circa 1960. Folding brochure, narrow 8vo, 9.25 x 4" when folded, with four panels of text and photographic illustrations printed on both sides. A promotional brochure for Barber-Scotia College, a private HBCU in Concord, North Carolina that specialized in teacher education. The brochure contains two panels of descriptive.....
N.P. [Gale Agency], [1953]. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, [24] pp, illustrations from photographs. Program for a tour by a group of prominent African American rhythm and blues musicians that took place in the summer of 1953. Performers included Joe Louis, Ruth Brown, Wynonie Harris, Lester Brown and Buddy Johnson's Orchestra. Not.....
New York City: E.H. Warner Poster Corp, [1954]. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, [16] pp, illustrations from photographs. A program from an eight week tour of the South and Midwest by these four prominent r & b groups. The tour took place in winter and spring 1954, with this copy dating from.....
Monroe, Louisiana: 1973. Folio newspaper, 8 pp. Volume I, Number IV of this newspaper that served the African American community in Monroe, Louisiana. Roosevelt Wright Jr first published the paper in 1969 under the title "Rapping Black," with the purpose of providing news of the Civil Rights movement to Monroe.....
[Washington D.C.]: Capitol View Civic Association, 1962. Quarto, 11 x 8.25", stapled, illustrated wrappers, [26] pp, illustrations from photographs. A scarce souvenir issue of a bulletin put out by the civic improvement association for the Capitol View neighborhood, "one of the few communities in Washington developed for African Americans by.....
Various Places: 1964 to 1967. A collection of 24 letters sent to Joan Gaillard, a young African American woman studying at Spelman College in Atlanta, together with two photos, an invitation, and a postcard. Overall in very good condition, with slight mothball odor to letters. The letters date between 1964.....
New York and Washington: 1951. A collection consisting of one printed program for the Twelfth Annual Convention of the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association, together with several other items totaling 27 pages of mimeographed and handwritten notes, memoranda, and other texts. This additional material all relates to a presentation given at.....
Atlanta, Georgia: 1970 to 1995. A collection of approximately 52 ephemeral items, including newsletters, programs, and flyers, issued by Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta between 1970 and 1995. Ebenezer Baptist is the historic African American church where Martin Luther King Sr. served as pastor between 1931 and 1975, and Martin.....
Georgia: 1946-1970s. A collection of 32 photographs and two letters, belonging to Cornelius Adolphus Scott and his son Stanley Scott, both members of the family that owned and founded the Atlanta Daily World, the oldest African American newspaper in Atlanta. The newspaper was founded by Cornelius' older brother, William Alexander.....
Kansas City, Kansas: Circa 1960s. A collection of 22 black and white photographs depicting members of Koran Temple Number 33, an African American Masonic lodge in Kansas City, Kansas. Includes 20 photos measuring 8 x 10", together with two panoramic photos measuring 13.25 x 5.5". The images are uncaptioned, but.....
Louisville, Kentucky: Circa 1940s to 1950s. Ten black and white photographs, each 7.5 x 5.25", six of which bear the photographer's stamp of James W. Wilson, 813 W. Walnut St, Louisville, Kentucky. The images depict a gathering of young African American men and women, including servicemen, and much drinking of.....
Homestead, Pa: 1920s. 12mo, 21 pp, brown printed wrappers. Constitution and by-laws of an African American fraternal order based in Homestead, Pennsylvania. The Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World was founded in Cincinnati in 1897 by two African American men who were refused admission to a white.....
Chatham, NY: Circa 1870s. Single leaf measuring 7.5 x 3.5", printed to recto only. A small, apparently unrecorded, broadside printing an anecdote about "A poor colored woman named Virgina, wife of Lott Barton" who ventured out into a winter storm and froze to death while saving the life of her.....
Memphis, Tennessee: Universal Life Insurance Co, Circa 1930s to 1940s. 12mo, 6 x 4.25", stapled illustrated wrappers, 32 pp. A rare cookbook issued by an African American insurance company in Memphis. Dr. Joseph Walker founded the Universal Life Insurance Company on Beale Street in Memphis in 1923, a firm dedicated.....
Louisville, Kentucky: General Association of Colored Baptists in Kentucky, 1943. First Edition. 9.5 x 6.75", blue cloth with gold lettering, [6], 289 pp, numerous photographic illustrations. A history of African American Baptists in Kentucky, published to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the General Association of Colored Baptists.....
Detroit, Michigan: White, Byrd & Thompson Publishing Co, 1945. Quarto, stapled pictorial wrappers, 32 pp, numerous photographic illustrations. November, 1945 issue of an illustrated magazine celebrating the achievements of African Americans. This short lived, monthly publication resumed with this issue after an unspecified pause, according to an editorial on page.....
Los Angeles: Sepia Productions, Circa 1948. Quarto, stapled booklet measuring 8.75 x 7.75", 12 pp, photographic illustrations. A well illustrated catalog of African American female models available for hire from Sepia Productions, a Los Angeles based talent agency. Sepia was the brainchild of Eddie Green, a famed African American actor.....
Nashville, Tennessee: Fisk University, [1926]. Octavo, 8 x 5.5", pictorial wrappers, 32 pp, illustrations from photographs. A scarce fundraising booklet for Fisk University. The first half of the text discusses the importance of a liberal arts education for African Americans, beginning with an essay by Fisk's president stating that "A.....