Lowell: The Vox Populi Press. - Thompson & Hill. 1896. Hard Cover.
Stain to top corner of front board and frontispiece, front hinge weakening (title page loose but included).
xviii, 586 pp. The memoirs of the founder of the Hopedale Community, who advocated for pacifism, socialism, and abolition.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Edges slightly worn.
xxi, 438 pp. A sweeping examination of the role of "Black Power" in the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City reveals the emergence of militancy and political consciousness in American sports.
Columbus, Ohio: H. Miller. 1860. Hard Cover.
1860 printing. Sabin 5800. Binding repaired by previous owner, edges rubbed, 1 inch split to top of front joint, front and end matter lightly foxed, pencil name and date on front flyleaf.
xvi, [17]-866 pp. 8vo. An early American study of the institution.....
New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2020. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First paperback printing. Remainder mark on top edge, minor blemish on front wrapper.
xx, 892 pp. Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History. "As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was.....
New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, 1989. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Cover corners reinforced with tape, spine creased, pencil name on blurb page.
xii, 1064 pp. In volume one of his America in the King Years, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the.....
New York: Signet, 1966. Mass Market Paperback.
Front wrapper lightly foxed, spine creased, rear wrapper creased, pages lightly toned.
viii, 429 pp. Manchild in the Promised Land is indeed one of the most remarkable stories of our time. This is a thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a......
New York: Signet, 1965. 15th Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
15th printing. Faint toning, light edge wear.
During his first year at Howard University, Claude Brown wrote an article for the magazine Dissent about growing up in Harlem. The piece attracted the attention of a publisher, who encouraged him to write.....
New York: Mentor, 1968. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
1st printing. Related article laid in. Toning, faint edge wear.
718 pp. Fiction, poetry, autobiography, and criticism reflecting a potent force in American writing today. Authors include: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, LeRoi Jones, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Arna Bontemps.....
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Chicago: The Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1909. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. An exceptional copy.
309, [5] pp. Frontispiece of Wendell Phillips, from a photograph by J.W. Black. An early volume from the collectible Lakeside Classic series, collecting four important speeches regarding the discussion of.....
New York: Delta, 1968. 10th Printing. Trade Paperback.
10th printing. Wrappers rubbed.
xv, 210 pp. "Soul On Ice is a memoir and collection of essays by Eldridge Cleaver. Originally written in Folsom State Prison in 1965, and published three years later in 1968, it is Cleaver's best known writing and.....
New York: Delta, 1968. 6th Printing. Trade Paperback.
6th printing. Faint edge wear.
xv, 210 pp. "Soul On Ice is a memoir and collection of essays by Eldridge Cleaver. Originally written in Folsom State Prison in 1965, and published three years later in 1968, it is Cleaver's best known writing.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Remainder marks.
302 pp. A British stage star turned Georgia plantation mistress, Fanny Kemble is perhaps best remembered as a critic of slavery--and an influential opponent of this institution during the years leading up to the Civil War.....
Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2016. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket spine base bumped.
xi, 185 pp. In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America’s most respected historians of the South--and particularly its history of slavery--turns the focus on his own life, which began not in.....
Rochester, New York: Landmark Society of Western New York, 1995. Soft Cover.
Covers lightly rubbed.
50 pp. "This publication documents the distinguished record of accomplishment by local African-Americans. ...truly a landmark account of the many historical contributions blacks have made to the growth and prosperity of the City of Rochester.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Rear cover creased.
xii, 741 pp. An in-depth study which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, this book examines the famous case related to the legal status of a slave who claimed the Missouri Compromise provided for his.....
New York: Signet, 1961. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback.
Reprint. Ex-library, ink underlining.
192 pp. A white male pigments his skin to appear black, and quickly realizes that black people are held to a different set of standards.
Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. An exceptional copy.
128 pp. The historic city of Greensboro, North Carolina, experienced national attention on February 1, 1960 when four A&T College students sat down at the Woolworth lunch counter, thus birthing the civil rights "sit-in movements." However, African Americans helped.....
Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Spot on top edge, otherwise near fine.
xx, 479 pp. Provides brief biographical sketches of women civil rights activists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and includes listings of bibliographical sources for each woman.
New York: Arcade Publishing, 2006. Trade Paperback.
Revised and updated edition. Ink name on blurb page.
267 pp. "Completely revised and updated, a collection of recognizable scenarios contains racial components that suggest how we act toward one another on a day-to-day basis reveals the racial situations we all inevitably encounter.....
New York: One World, 2019. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Brand new from publisher.
"Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system.....
New York: Schocken Books, 1973. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Second printing. Covers lightly faded and rubbed.
x, 404 pp. A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become.....
New York: Da Capo Press, 1997. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
Spine creased and faded, minor repair to binding, ink gift note on front flyleaf.
xxiii, [3], 368, [6] pp. An examination of the re-election campaign and victory that eventually led to the abolition of slavery in the United States. Includes.....
New York: Associated Authors, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Spine lightly toned and lightly creased, boards lightly soiled, faint stain along page ridge.
256 pp. Blue boards. "Bernard Mandel's classic study provides a concise overview of the relationship between organized abolitionism and the fledgling labor movement.....
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Spine creased, front wrapper faintly creased, top page ridge faintly foxed.
xiii, 465 pp. Probes beneath the public image of this important national leader to reveal a complex portrait of the man who exposed the brutal injustice.....
New York: American Book - Stratford Press, Inc., 1963. Meagher, Bob. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Very good in good jacket. Ink owner stamp on front endpaper, jacket lightly rubbed with 1 inch closed tear and 1/2 inch chip to spine head.
vi, [4], 181, [1] pp. "Hidden in.....