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African-American Firsts: Famous, Little-Known and Unsung Triumphs of Blacks in America. Illustrated by Alison Munoz.

By: Potter, Joan with Constance Claytor.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Elizabeth Town, NY: Pinto Press, [1994].:

Seller ID: 05172scs

Octavo, softbound, xiv, 336 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner inscription. Read the fascinating stories of more than 400 breakthrough achievements by men and women who dared to succeed...from America's beginnings to today...over 75 pages of photographs.
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The Pain and the Promise: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Tallahassee, Florida.

By: Rabby, Glenda Alice.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Athens: The University of Georgia Press, [1999]. First Edition.:

Seller ID: 00343s

Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), ix, 330 pp. Fine, in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. While Florida is rarely considered a traditional southern state, its history of race relations reveals otherwise. This study of the civil rights movement in Florida's captial during the 1950s and 1960s shows that Tallahassee was a key player in the South during that era, hosting the region's most successful bus boycott in 1956 and protest activities by the Congress for Racial Equality that were among that organization's first in the Deep South. Drawing on eyewitness accounts and local newspaper coverag...
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Seedtime for the Modern Civil Rights Movement: The President's Committee on Fair Employment Practice, 1941-1946.

By: Reed, Merl E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, (1991). First Edition, First Printing.:

Seller ID: 1863mls

Octavo, orange cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, x + 384 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket jacket. From dust jacket: During World War II, influential black leaders, tired of discrimination in the defense industries and segregation in the armed forces, called for a massive demonstration of protest in the nation's capital. Concerned that the proposal 1941 March on Washington Movement would spark a racial violence, embarrass the government, or possibly even fracture the Democratic party, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, creating the President's Commi...
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The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas, and Martyr of Virginia.

By: Sanborn, F. B., ed.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1885.:

Seller ID: m1717

1st edition. Octavo, terra-cotta cloth, [ix], 645 pp. Portraits, facsimiles. Very Good; light scuffing.
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The Kennedy Years and the Negro: A Photographic Record. Edited by Doris E. Saunders. Introduction by Andrew T. Hatcher. Designed by Herbert Temple.

By: Saunders, Doris E., ed.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co., 1964.:

Seller ID: m1476

Quarto, color-illustrated wrappers, stapled, xiii, 143 pp. Photos. Near-Fine.
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Black Voices from Reconstruction, 1865 - 1877.

By: Smith, John David.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Gainesville: University Press of Florida, (1997).:

Seller ID: 50383bd

Octavo, paperbound (slick, photo. illus. red wrappers), 174 pp. Fine. Contents: Introduction; Chronology; The Promise and Reality of Emancipation; Changing Old Ways; Reuniting Families; The First Friend: The Freedmen's Bureau; A Second Bondage: The Plantation System; Organizing for Equal Rights; The Right to Vote; The First Leaders; Racial Terrorism; The Promise of Education and a Homeland; Conclusion: Reconstruction and Its Legacy; Notes; Sources; Further Reading; Index.
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Anthony Burns: A History.

By: Stevens, Charles Emery.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Williamstown, Mass.: Corner House, 1973. Reprint of the 1856 edition.:

Seller ID: m1850

Octavo, cloth, 295 pp. Very Good in a somewhat rubbed and chipped dust jacket.
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A Brief Biography of Booker Washington.

By: Stokes, Anson Phelps.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hampton Institute Press, 1936. First Edition.:

Seller ID: 3275qsl

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), x, 42 pp. Frontis. portrait. Near-Fine,with slight wear to ends of spine.
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The Forgotten Trade; Comprising the Log of Daniel and Henry of 1700 and Accounts of the Slave Trade from the Minor Ports of England, 1698-1725. With a Foreword by John Fowles.

By: Tattersfield, Nigel.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London: Jonathan Capte, (1991). First Edition.:

Seller ID: 60724bd2

Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), xvi, [iv], 460 pp. Illustrations, map illus. endpapers. Near-Fine in dust jacket with mylar protector.
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Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste.

By: Weiner, Mark S.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: Knopf, 2004.:

Seller ID: 28225a

Advance Review Copy. Octavo, softbound, xvii, 403 pp. Very Good.
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The Stories of John Edgar Wideman.

By: Wideman, John Edgar.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.:

Seller ID: 4135s

Octavo, red cloth & black board, 432 pp. Fine in a like dust jacket. Wideman writes intensely lyrical and rageful stories about African-Americans from all walks of life in Homewood, a black section of Pittsburgh - stories about ancestors, family, and lovers caught in the vortex of American history and haunted by their own particular demons. Here are luminous stories, informed by the metaphysics of the blues, about the sublimities and terrors of the human condition.' Winner of the prestigious PEN Faulkner Award.
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Category: African American History