A civil rights movement era guide to Black history monuments published on the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1963. Described and pictured in this work are sites and monuments located in fifteen states. Some of the more prominent sites include the Harpers Ferry National Monument in West Virginia, Frederick.....
A scarce “official souvenir program” for an African American exhibition basketball team whose repertoire included trick-shots and trick-dribbling, imitations, “comedy at its finest,” “classy ball handling,” and more. This work opens with a word from the team’s owners, addressed to the basketball team’s many fans throughout America and Canada. Introducing.....
An unrecorded anti-slavery broadside responding to a local newspaper’s fearmongering by eloquently explaining the real “object and motives of the Anti-Slavery Society.” Abolitionism, as this broadside explains, is motivated by “humanity and justice,” and the aims of the Anti-Slavery Society are not, as the Rochester Gazette article evidently suggested, “to.....
A fundraising circular for Mary McLeod Bethune’s all-black Bethune Cookman College in Florida. Celebrated African-American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955)—fondly known as “The First Lady of The Struggle”—is best known for founding this private college for black students in Daytona Beach, Florida. Born to.....
A rare, jam-packed minstrel show playbill with blackface performances by Buckleys Serenaders in their Boston theater, brimming with ‘comic’ descriptions of three acts plus general information. Part I of this program includes melodies such as Darky Felicity and Farm Yard; Part II features variety acts such as the song and.....
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An unrecorded notice advertising a speech delivered by W.E.B. Du Bois at the City Liberal Club (later National Liberal Club) in London in advance of the first Universal Races Congress of 1911. The Congress met the following month at the University of London and featured many prominent humanists from numerous.....
A general order exempting from the draft African American men already employed by the Union Army, issued by a Union General most famous for attempting to abolish slavery in several southern states prior to the Emancipation Proclamation. Issued by Major General David Hunter just under two weeks after his order.....
A broadside advertising Mack & Arnold’s minstrel show at the Windsor, Vermont town hall, with an original ticket to the show. The public is advised that “this Troupe is not composed of one or two legitimate performers and several amateurs but that each and every member is an Etheopian Artist.....
Scarce anti-Langston Hughes/Paul Robeson broadside published in the 1950s by far-right demagogue Gerald L. K. Smith, accusing both men of being anti-Christian, communist agitators. The immediate occasion for this attack was Hughes’s poem “Goodbye Christ,” which he wrote during a 1932 trip to the Soviet Union, which is reproduced in.....
The publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852 resulted in a virtual explosion of books, broadsides, sheet music, posters and other ephemera. Boston publisher John P. Jewett (1814–1884) published this song for voice and piano in the same year that he published the first edition of the novel. The price.....
The publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852 resulted in a virtual explosion of books, broadsides, sheet music, posters and other ephemera. Boston publisher John P. Jewett (1814–1884) published this song for voice and piano in the same year that he published the first edition of the novel. The price.....