A collection of short pieces adapted from African American folklore by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by the Dillons. This book won the Coretta Scott King Award and it was issued with a Laura Ingalls Wilder Award sticker, which Hamilton had just received for her lifetime contribution to children's literature (she.....

First Edition. A novel. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Alice Walker. 416 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in the publisher's undyed cotton-covered slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. This copy is still sealed in the original shrinkwrap.

Second Printing. An account of African American life on Lang Syne, one of the largest plantations in South Carolina, written by the novelist Julia Peterkin and photographed by New York heiress Doris Ullman. "Ullman's soft-focus photos—rendered as tactile as charcoal drawings in the superb gravure reproductions here—straddle Pictorialism and Modernism.....

First Edition. The second of four volumes seeking to define "a new Blackness, real and strong as our history, pushing consciousness toward a new place" through photography (quoted from the first volume). At the time Joe Crawford started this series, African American photographers had been almost completely left out of.....

First Edition. An offprint from the Fortnightly Review, in which the leading Mexican American historian of his time argues that Native Americans and African slaves were treated better in Spanish America than in the United States. His view of the enslaved people is best expressed by quoting his summary of.....

First Edition. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's verse-play set among enslaved people on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina. Dove also served as the US Poet Laureate. This is one of 224 numbered copies, signed by the author on the title page. 140 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy.....

First Edition. A prequel to Who Fears Death, about a genetically engineered woman named Phoenix who gradually realizes that her home is really a prison. Okorafor distinct Africanfuturism style draws upon her Nigerian heritage and her American upbringing. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine.....

First Edition. The second African American photobook according to Carla Williams in her essay, The Black Photographers Annual in Aperture 223 (the first was Roy DeCarava's Sweet Flypaper of Life, in 1955). The author is a poet, photographer, filmmaker (The Black Indians of New Orleans documentary), and a professor at.....

First Edition. A four-part defense of the Freedmen's Bureau and its head, Major General Oliver O. Howard, spurred by a proposed amendment to cut the $5,000 budget for the hospital in Washington, D.C. and a speech accusing the agency of "plundering the public treasuring." The Freedmen's Bureau was a Reconstruction-era.....

First Edition. A collection of speeches by a leading bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the editor of the A.M.E. Church Review, and a tireless campaigner for social justice. "Ransom was torn between two concepts of Christianity: Christianity as an instrument of (possibly bloody) revolution, and Christianity as the.....

A reprint of two anti-slavery tracts issued by Leonard Baskin's Gehenna Press. With "An afterword on Woolman & Slavery" by Frederick B. Tolles. "Two hundred & fifty copies were printed at The Gehenna Press to memorialize the bicentennial of John Woolman's death in 1772. The texts follow the first editions.....

Third printing. A biography of Frederick Douglass by the longtime leader of the Tuskegee Institute (now University). Washington frames Douglass as an inspiring figure from the past, part of an era of "destruction and liberation" focused on slavery and its immediate aftermath. Washington implies that the more difficult task of.....

In this widely reproduced Lange image, a bulky white man appears to hold court while standing with one foot on the bumper of a car; five thin black men sit and stand behind him on the steps of a clapboard store. In the years immediately after she made the negative.....