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Brooklyn Home for Aged People. A Cotillion Through the Ages, The Brooklyn Home for Aged People, June 20, 1982.
Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Home for Aged People, 1982.
Quarto, stapled wrappers, 88 pp. Documents the Debutante Cotillion for Brooklyn, 1982. Illus. with photos. of participating girls and boys. Ladies in Waiting (pictured): Eveyln Brookins, Rugh Scott, Annette Debnam, Pauline McWilliams, Lillie K. Sims, Brenda Williams, Betty Pottinger. Escorts (Pictured): Elliot Tricoche, Philip De Bourge, Keith Jordon, Roosevelt Watts, Tyrone Carter, William Roberts III, Charles Gregory Dillard, Anthony Plantt. Golden Circle (Pictured): Doris Ward, Adele Doyle, Carol King Walling, Lillian Griffith, Beatrice Archibald, Mae Weston, Rosa Weatherless, Geraldine Ramsay, Lillian McIntosh, Janie B. Mapp, Sylvia K. Haynes. Starlets/Heralds (pictured): Lester Hinds, Kadisha Mann, John Hewitt, Laurie Edwards, Cheniqua Spears, Ingrid Morgan, Channel Odon, Bernadette McKain, Marisa Gordon, Dena Ayer, Clarence Pew. Junior Debs and Junior Escorts (Pictured): Peter Taylor, Todd Davis, Deidra Townes, Kenya Gooding, Kerri Payne, Diahann Ayer, Denise Gooding, Joi Nicole Tisdale, Clifton Hill, William Roberts III. Twinkies/Pages (Pictured): Leslie Davis, Taharqua Temple, Ayana Feurtado, Carter Brock, Lionel Brown, Nina D. James. Debutants (Pictured with description): Mary Ann Henderson, Robin D. Anderson, Sharron Barriaga, Paula Benson, Anna-Marie Edreira, Monica-Marie Edreira, Teresa-Marie Edreira, Sharron Hunter, Alyssa L. King, Tracy Malone, Michele McKenley, Monique A. Thibou, Kim Thompson.
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Courlander, Harold. A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore. The Oral Literature, Traditions, Recollections, Legends, Tales, Songs, Religious Beliefs, Customs, Sayings and Humor of Poeples of African Descent in the Americas. Decorations by Enrico Arno.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., [1976].
Octavo, magenta cloth (hardcover), x, 618 pp. Fine, in a Very Good dust jacket. ÒAfro-American folklore, as seen in this collection, includes a wide array of orally transmitted traditions of the numerous, sometimes disparate Negro cultures of the New World. Among these traditions are tales of scoundrels, heroes, rollicking adventures, friendship, and much more, songs, myths, myth-legends, epic-like narrations, and recollections of historical happenings. There are descriptions of cult life, around which many traditions and beliefs flow; of music and dance, which have an integral connection with traditional ways; and of the social scene in places where African and European, or white and black ideas intermingled and became Afro-American.... Perceives the interconnections of culktural inheritances throughout the Afro-American region and the local divergences as well. Early sections of the book survey the traditions and oral literature of the Spanish-, French-, and English-speaking islands of the Caribbean, and of areas of Central and South America inhabited by people of African descent. There follows an extensive section devoted to the tales, beliefs, recollections, songs, religious epics, and a wide variety of oral creations of blacks in the United States. The appendixes include a number of African stories and descriptions that point up the impact of African traditions on the cultures of Afro-America.Ó
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da Costa, Emilia Viotti. Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Octavo, navy blue cloth & boards (hardcover), xix, 378 pp. Near-Fine, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with very slight edgewear. Ò...Tells the riveting story of a pivotal moment in the history of slavery. Studying the complaints brought by slaves to the office of the Protector of Slaves, she reconstructs the experience of slavery through the eyes of the Demerara slaves themselves. Da Casta also draws on eyewitness accounts, official records, and private journals (most notable the diary of John Smith...), to paint a vivid portrait of a society in transistion, shaken to its foundations by the recent revolutions in America, France and Haiti. Smith and his wife, Jane, the planters and colonial politicians, and the leaders of the rebellion emerge as flesh-and-blood individuals, players trapped in a complex political game none of them could fully understand...She details the colonials's orgy of repression following the rebellion -- scores of slaves were sentenced more or less at random to grisly public executions and ritualistic floggings, and Smith died in his cell before news arrived that the Crown had granted him mercy -- and shows how it fueled the anti-slavery movement in Britain, leading to the abolishment of slavery in the colonies ten years later...An original and unforgettable book.Ó
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Diana Wells, editor. We Have a Dream: African-American Visions of Freedom.
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers/Richard Gallen, [1993]. First edition.
Octavo, cloth & boards, 317 pp. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with some rubbing at head of spine. Contributions by: Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Alex Haley, Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King, Jr., Alice Walker, Richard Wright and Malcolm X, among others.
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Du Bois, W. E. B., et al., eds. Phylon: The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture. Volume III, No. 3 (Third Quarter, 1942).
Atlanta: Atlanta University, 1942.
Octavo, stiff printed wrappers, [96] pp. Illus. Very Good. Includes: Cuba, Marti and the Race Problem by Fernando Ortiz; Dilemma, A Poem by Louise Holmes Elder; Whither Martinique by Vincent W. Byas; A Message to American Negroes from the National Union of Men of Color in Brazil; Some Aspects of Race Relations in Brazil by E. Franklin Frazier; ortrait of Fernando Ortiz y Fernandez; Jose Manuel Valdes, Great Peruvian Mulatto by Fernando Romero; Amigos, Amis, A Poem by Mercer Cook; A Chronicle of Race Relations by W. E. B. Du Bois; Books and Race; Race in Periodicals.
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Fitts, Leroy. A History of Black Baptists.
Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman Press, (1985).
Octavo, paperbound (stiff, illus. blue wrappers), 368 pp. Very Good+, with light edgewear. From Introduction: Strangely enough, the story of black Baptists in America has not been told from the standpoint of its tremendous spiritual momentum through the ages of American history. Of inestimable importance is the fact that black Baptists were distinctive and eminent in the development of American Chrsitianity. This book will attempt to document objectively our tradition as a unique trend within that experience...my purpose is to tell the black Baptist story as a part of, though unique, the general history of American Chrstianity, noting social, economic, and political influences on the development of the tradition...
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Goodman, Paul. A Fragment of Victory; In Italy During World War II, 1942-45. A Special Study concerned with the 92d Infantry Divison and its principal attachments, including the 473d and 422d (Japanese-American) Infantry Regiments.
Carlisle Barracks, Pa.: Army War College, 1952. ÒRestricted, Security Information.Ó
Presentation copy, furnished by the author. 4to, printed wrappers, ring-clasp bound, typewritten, xiv, 219 pp. Fold-out maps, photos. Includes four typewritten letters signed by the author, along with carbons of letters to the author from the former-owner and 3 photos (1 8x10, 1 4x6 & 1 4x5) of the 92d in Italy.
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Hamer, Judith A. and Martin J. Centers of the Self: Short Stories by Black American Women from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. Edited and with an Introduction by Judith A. and Martin J. Hamer.
New York: Hill and Wang, [1994]. First Edition.
Fine (As New). Octavo, softbound, x, 355 pp. Offers us a chronologically arranged collection of riveting short fiction from the best of America's black women writers. Each of these fine workd reveals an important aspect of the core experience of self-discovery in African American life. Among the prominent authors whose work is included are Jessie Redmon Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, Paule Marshall, Ann Petry, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Rita Dove, and Jamaica Kincaid.
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Hamilton, Charles V. The Struggle for Political Equality. Black Perspectives on the Bicentennial.
New York: National Urban League, Inc., 1976.
Octovo, stapled illus. wrappers, 16 pp. Near-Fine, with light foxing (age darkening) to covers. Content Headings: A Beginning; Tuskegee Institute; The American Betrayal; Populist Movement; Seeking a New Life; Blacks Used the Courts; The Bench and the Ballot; Harassment; Politics in the North: Different Place, Different Problems; Politics of Protest and Political Self-Consciousness; Professor Walton, in 1972, Concluded...; Black Nationalist; Black Power; Points to Ponder; Suggested Discussion Questions; Selected Bibliography.
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Harper, Michael S. My Father's Face.
Charleston, W.V.: Parchment Gallery Graphics, Humanities Department, University of Charleston, 1998.
1st edition. Of an edition of 100 copies, this is No. 96. It is signed by the poet. Broadside, 12 x 9 ins., printed in brown ink. Illustrated with a portrit by Chris Sperry. Fine with explanatory leaf and in original stiff paper portfolio.
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Haygood, Wil. The Haygoods of Columbus: A Family Memoir. A Love Story.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, A Peter Davison Book, 1997.
Octavo, black cloth & burgundy boards (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, 360 pp. Fine (As New), in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. ÒWil Haygood's memoir of his home town of Columbus, Ohio, is an up-lifting yet unsparing celebration of the ties that bind all loving American families. The lives of the Haygoods -- grandmother a hotel cook, mother a nightlife-loving waitress, father mostly absent, one brother a legendary pimp, the other a star-crossed dreamer, sisters whose fates included very little disposable income -- were all interwined with that of Mount Vernon Avenue, an eclectic, seductive street of shops, juke joints, and speak-easies at the epicenter of Columbus's black community...Ó
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