First Edition. The memoirs of the brother of the assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers. xii, 196 pages. First edition (stated first printing). Some spotting to the front board, else very good in a very good dust jacket with shallow chipping to the top of the spine. Pages tanned, as.....

First British edition. The first British edition (two years after the American) of one of the Library of Congress's 88 Books that Shaped America: "'Few books make history and fewer still become foundational texts for the movements and struggles of an entire people. The Souls of Black Folk occupies this.....

A full-length cabinet card portrait of Sojourner Truth with the caption, "I sell the shadow to support the substance." This is one of Truth's last portraits, taken when she was in her eighties and purchased in bulk to sell at events, hence the caption. During the Civil War, Truth took.....

A registration document for a 29-year-old enslaved woman who lived on the north coast of Puerto Rico. In 1867, in response to the American Civil War and abolitionist movements in the Spanish colonies, the Spanish crown began to limit the trade in slaves. One of the first steps was the.....

First French Edition. A French translation of Wright's last novel, a grim story of a Black mortician trying to navigate life in Jim Crow Mississippi. With an interview with Wright by Maurice Nadeau and a portrait of him by Monique Métrot. Issued as Les lettres nouvelles no. 3. 459 pages.....

First Edition. A volume collecting Chew comics nos. 1 to 20, with extras at the end. The story follows detective Tony Chu, who gets psychic emanations from all foods except canned beets—it's a hard-boiled satire of foodie culture. The artist, Rob Guillory is one of the too-small number of Black.....

First Edition. A Mexican edition of a history of the Haitian revolution, written from the perspective of the French, who were ousted from the island following a particularly brutal and bloody conflict. The book is predictably critical of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a leader of the revolution and the first ruler of.....

An original black-and-white gelatin silver print photograph of Audre Lorde speaking, pictured in three-quarters profile. Lorde (1934–1992) is an influential and popular writer, a self-described, “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” The image is inscribed on the back (verso) and signed "Audrey Lorde." Printed on 8 by 10 inch Kodak paper.....

On November 5, 1872, 440,738 New Yorkers went into the voting booth to express a preference for Ulysses S. Grant over Horace Greeley. Under the American political system they were technically selecting voters in the Electoral College, including Frederick Douglass and thirty-four other men on the Republican party slate. This.....

First Edition. 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.....

First Edition. Two short texts by Booker T. Washington advocating for equality in voting between while and black men (women's suffrage is not addressed). The first text is a letter written to the constitutional convention in Louisiana supporting a test for voting so long as "no one clothed with State.....

In this Lange image, a man and woman, both African American, stand in a field holding hoes or other farming implements. Lange took this image while working for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (two WPA agencies). The most famous image from this period in her career is.....

First Edition. Winner of the National Book Award, the story of a young enslaved boy who finds refuge with the abolitionist John Brown, who mistakes him for a girl. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket but for a......