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A Man's Life: An Autobiography

One book entitled A Man's Life an Autobiography by Roger Wilkins published 1982. This biography of Wilkins focuses on his life as a black man in America. Wilkins was an Assistant Attorney General of the United States, a Pulitzer Prize winning...

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Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait

One book entitled Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait by Rachel Robinson published 1996. This book highlights Jackie Robinson's story from the perspective of his wife Rachel Robinson. It is broken into 43 section and covers Robinson's life before...

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Equal Justice Under Law

One copy of Equal Justice Under Law by Constance Baker Motley published in 1999. This copy is signed by the author to a Gail Frazier. The book is separated into twelve chapters with an appendix, notes, acknowledgements, and index to follow. The...

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Equal Justice Under Law

One copy of Equal Justice Under Law by Constance Baker Motley published in 1999. The book is separated into twelve chapters with an appendix, notes, acknowledgements, and index to follow. The chapters are entitled; New Haven 1921-41, College and Law...

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Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave

One book written by William W. Brown entitled "Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave" dated 1849. The book is broken into fourteen chapters that concern his life as an enslaved person in St. Louis and elsewhere.

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My Southern Home: Or, The South and Its People

One book entitled "My Southern Home: Or, The South and Its People" written by William Wells Brown and published in 1880. Brown is a noted abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. This book is broken into twenty nine chapters and...

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Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War

One book entitled "Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War" written by Emmett J. Scott dated 1919. This book is a history of African American roles and efforts during World War I. It is broken into thirty one chapters. There...

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From Slavery to Affluence: Memoirs of Robert Anderson, Ex-Slave

One book entitled "From Slavery to Affluence: Memoirs of Robert Anderson, Ex-Slave" written by Robert Ball Anderson dated 1927. Recounts Anderson's life as an enslaved person. In 1864, Anderson heard that a Union recruiting officer was nearby the...

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The Negro's Opportunity

One book entitled "The Negro's Opportunity" written by Henry L. Jones published in 1940. This is a vocational guide book geared towards African Americans.

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Shadow and Light: An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Centuries

One book entitled Shadow and Light: An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Centuries by Mifflin Wistar Gibbs with an introduction by Booker T. Washington dated 1902. An autobiography that recalls a life of myriad transformations...

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Shadow and Sunshine

One book entitled Shadow and Sunshine by Eliza Suggs dated 1906. Elizabeth "Eliza" Gertrude Suggs, born with Osteogenesis imperfecta (commonly called "brittle bone disease") was not anticipated to live past childhood. Her father, a former slave...

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Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed: Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L.P. Ray

One book entitled Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed: Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L.P. Ray dated 1926.

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to Naomi

One letter addressed to Naomi Hurwitz from Warren Schwartz dated September 4, 1941. Describes a fight breaking out in a train car while he was reading Richard Wright's "Native Son." Naomi recommended the book.

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Autobiography of James L. Smith

One book entitled Autobiography of James L. Smith dated 1881. Smith writes about his life being enslaved as well as his escape, service in the Civil War and life after the war. The book is broken into twelve chapters.

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My Life in the South

One book entitled My Life in the South by Jacob Stroyer published 1885. The first section of the narrative covers Stroyer's fifteen years in slavery. It provides information about his family, describes life at his master's summer seat, and discusses...

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[Scrapbook of Maria Webb]

Bound collection of letters from leading abolitionists of the period, including Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others.

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to Maria Webb

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave

Inscribed: "From his sincere friend." To N. B. Spooner.

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to Francis Jackson

"You will begin to think this fugitive slave, ought to be flogged, for his neglect and sloathfulness[sic[, in replying to your letter. . .I have just been in search of the information which you require, in respect to the whereabouts of Livi Chocker...

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to Alice J. Cutright Kaine

Washington writes to Kaine, a friend of her father's, about the ceremony issuing a commemorative stamp of her father, Booker T. Washington. Discusses the family members in attendance, and mentions that she "received the first sheet of stamps from...

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to Alice J. Cutright Kaine

Washington writes to Kaine to forward a first day issue stamp promised in an earlier letter (see GLC05508.255.01). Her brother, Booker T. Washington, Jr., has been in the hospital and is about to be released. He is still weak and jobless, however...

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to Yvonne X (Munford)

Malcolm X writes to another member of the Nation of Islam: "As Salaam Alaikum: Always remember that fasting and prayer to Allah brings all our desires to past [sic]. Islam is the reward that brings about all other rewards. Hold fast to it. Your...

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to Amy Post

Douglass writes to Post, a New York abolitionist and suffragist. Had been to Post's home in Rochester, and regretted her absence. Relates that he and Helen, his wife (they married in January 1884) had for their honeymoon traveled through Chicago...

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The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study

Du Bois's detailed study uses history and sociology to consider the social experience of African Americans in the Seventh Ward of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Offers a comprehensive examination of black life, including migration, religion, crime...

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Address by Hon. Frederick Douglass, delivered in the Congregational Church, Washington, D.C., April 16, 1883 : on the twenty-first anniversary of emancipation, in the District of Columbia.

"What Abraham Lincoln said in respect of the United States is as true of the colored people as of the relations of those States. They cannot remain half slave and half free. You must give them all or take from them all. Until this half-and-half...

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