On this page you can review the 75 Black History related titles that are on our shelves on November 5, 2007, at Ray Boas, Bookseller, in Walpole, New Hampshire. Make a note of the Order No(s) just before the price of the books you wish to order, and please do place your order at any time. Thank you, RAY
1. Ashmore, Harry S., CIVIL RIGHTS AND WRONGS: A MEMOIR OF RACE AND POLITICS, 1944-1994, Pantheon Books, New York, (1994) 1st ed, 441pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) owner's name, ISBN 0679431810 In this memoir, Ashmore takes up where Gunnar Myrdal left off in 1944, giving us a retrospective view of the causes and effects of the post-World War II civil rights movement, considering it in the context of the political developments that both advanced and hindered its effectiveness., (Order No: 25702 ), $6.50
2. Bailey, Pearl, TALKING TO MYSELF, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, (1971) 1st ed, 233pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) signed by the author, Signed on half title, "Love Pearl.", (Order No: 4983 ), $30.00
3. Baker, Ray Stannard, FOLLOWING THE COLOR LINE: AN ACCOUNT OF NEGRO CITIZENSHIP IN THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, Corner House Publishers, Williamstown, MA, 1973, 58 B&W ill., 314pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), (Originally published in 1908). On one of his assignments while employed by McClure's Magazine during the early years of the 19th century, Ray Stannard Baker toured the country reporting on the condition of the Negro throughout the United States. He interviewed blacks and whites in urban and rural communities. He examined the full range of social, economic and political problems faced by the Negro in a generally hostile white environment. The result was a series of informative, highly readable articles that appeared in the American Magazine and in McClure's, and this is a compilation of these widely read magazine pieces., (Order No: 13804 ), $7.50
4. Banton, Michael, WHITE AND COLOURED: THE BEHAVIOR OF BRITISH PEOPLE TOWARDS COLOURED IMMIGRANTS, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 1960, B&W tables, 223pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Dr. Banton's propositions about race relations in Britain., (Order No: 17836 ), $10.00
5. Beardsley, Edward H., A HISTORY OF NEGLECT: HEALTH CARE FOR BLACKS AND MILL WORKERS IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOUTH, University of Tennessee Pr., Knoxville, TN, (1987), B&W illustrations, 384pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0870495232 This book examines the environmental, political, and economic forces that contributed to the poor health and substandard medical care of southern blacks and mill workers in this century., (Order No: 26362 ), $10.00
6. Bell, Malcolm, MAJOR BUTLER'S LEGACY: FIVE GENERATIONS OF A SLAVEHOLDING FAMILY, University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, (1987), B&W illustrations, 673pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0820308978 Encompassing American history from the eve of the Revolution to the first decades of our own century, this volume is a history of five generations of a family sundered at its very core by the same institution of slavery that would lead the nation into the horror and destruction of the Civil War., (Order No: 49574 ), $10.00
7. Bishop, Jim, THE DAYS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, (1971), 516pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 18001 ), $5.00
8. Bontemps, Arna (selected and introduced by), GREAT SLAVE NARRATIVES, Beacon Press, Boston, MA, (1969), 331pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Contents include: The Slave Narrative: An American Genre; The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African; The Fugitive Blacksmith--or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennigton, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland; Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom--or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery., (Order No: 52312 ), $12.50
9. Bradford, Sarah (introduction by Butler A. Jones), HARRIET TUBMAN - THE MOSES OF HER PEOPLE, Carol Publishing Group, New York, (1994) 6th ptg, 149pp, good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0806504153 The republication of Bradford's memorable biography of Harriet Tubman is an exact, unaltered and unabridged reprint of the expanded second edition of 1886., (Order No: 49731 ), $3.00
10. Comer, James P. (foreword by Charlayne Hunter-Gault), MAGGIE'S AMERICAN DREAM - THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A BLACK FAMILY, New American Library, New York, (1988) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 228pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0453005888 "A compelling family history that shows the power of education to change people's lives - by one of America's most eminent black educators.", (Order No: 52253 ), $4.00
11. Cooper, William A. (with some notes by Charles S. Boyer), THE ATTITUDE OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS TOWARDS SLAVERY: CAMDEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY - CAMDEN HISTORY VOL. 1 NO. 1, Camden County Historical Soc, Camden, NJ, 1929, 16pp, good, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 27302 ), $20.00
12. Davis, Althea T., EARLY BLACK AMERICAN LEADERS IN NURSING - ARCHITECTS FOR INTEGRATION AND EQUALITY, Jones and Bartlett Publisher, Sudbury, MA, (1999) 1st ptg, B&W and color illustrations, 243pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0763710091 The fascinating story of three Black women, Mary Eliza Mahoney, Martha Minerva Franklin, and Adah Belle Samuels Thoms, considered to be among the pioneers of nursing., (Order No: 47696 ), $12.50
13. Dent, Tom, SOUTHERN JOURNEY: A RETURN TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, William Morrow and Company, New York, (1997) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 400pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) review slip, ISBN 0688140998 More than twenty years after the civil rights movement, Dent takes us on a unique journey through the contemporary South, revisiting the places where protesters and their supporters took a stand for equality., (Order No: 31695 ), $5.00
14. Dew, Charles B., BOND OF IRON: MASTER AND SLAVE AT BUFFALO FORGE, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, (1994) 1st ed, B&W ill., B&W maps, 429pp, very good, black cloth spine (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0393036162 An investigation of slave life at Buffalo Forge., (Order No: 22344 ), $5.00
15. Driver, Leota S., FANNY KEMBLE, Negro Universities Press, New York, =1969), B&W illustrations, 271pp, very good+, brown cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0837126975 First published in 1933., (Order No: 1980 ), $12.50
16. Edgerton, Robert B., HIDDEN HEROISM - BLACK SOLDIERS IN AMERICA'S WARS, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, (2001) 1st pg, B&W illustrations, 271pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0813338581 Investigates the history of Afro-American participation in American wars, from the French and Indian Wars to the present., (Order No: 52572 ), $6.00
17. Fogel, Robert William, WITHOUT CONSENT OR CONTRACT: THE RISE AND RALL OF AMERICAN SLAVERY, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, (1991), 539pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0393307530, (Order No: 23493 ), $7.50
18. Fogel, Robert William and Engerman, Stanley L., TIME ON THE CROSS: THE ECONOMICS OF AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVERY, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, (1974) 1st ed, B&W figures, tables, 286pp, good+, brown cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0316287008 This is a groundbreaking reexamination of the economic foundations of American slavery., (Order No: 25655 ), $7.50
19. Freuchen, Peter, THE LEGEND OF DANIEL WILLIAMS, Julian Messner, Inc., New York, (1957) 2nd ptg, 256pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The story of the Bible-toting slave who became a legendary outlaw of the far North., (Order No: 9358 ), $4.50
20. Fuller, Edmund, A STAR POINTED NORTH, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, (1946) 1st ed, 361pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), "A historical novel about Frederick Douglas, the first American Negro to become a great leader of his people.", (Order No: 40518 ), $15.00
21. Gavins, Raymond, THE PERILS AND PROSPECTS OF SOUTHERN BLACK LEADERSHIP: GORDON BLAINE HANCOCK, 1884-1970, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 1977, B&W frontis, 221pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0822303817 This volume focuses on Gordon Blaine Hancock, who was probably the most articulate and popular champion of his race in Virginia and much of the South for more than a quarter century before the BROWN decision of 1954., (Order No: 44707 ), $12.50
22. Genovese, Eugene D., IN RED AND BLACK: MARXIAN EXPLORATIONS IN SOUTHERN AND AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY, Pantheon Books, New York, (1971) 1st ed, 435pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0394467922 A series of essays on the black experience, Southern history, and comparative slave systems which were written during the tumultuous years 1965-1969. Separately and together they constitute a case for the Marxian interpretation of history., (Order No: 13946 ), $7.50
23. Greene, Lorenzo J. (edited with an introduction by Arvarh E. Strickland), SELLING BLACK HISTORY FOR CARTER G. WOODSON: A DIARY, 1930-1933, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, MO, (1996) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 428pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0826210694 This volume offers important glimpses into the private thoughts of a young man of the 1930s, a developing intellectual and scholar. Greene's diary also provides invaluable insights into the personality of Carter Woodson that are not otherwise available., (Order No: 45767 ), $17.50
24. Grimm, Reinhold & Hermand, Jost (editors), BLACKS AND GERMAN CULTURE, University of Wisconsin Pr., Madison, WI, (1986) 1st ptg, 11 B&W plates, 184pp, fine, burgundy cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0299970175 The essays assembled in this volume constitute the revised and, in some instances, considerably enlarged versions of the papers that were read and discussed during the Fifteenth Wisconsin Workshop, an interdisciplinary event organized by the Department of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and held in conjunction with its sister Departments of Comparative Literature and of African Languages and Literatures, on October 5 and 6, 1984., (Order No: 13323 ), $15.00
25. Guillaume, Bernice F. (compiled and edited by), THE COLLECTED WORKS OF OLIVIA WARD BUSH-BANKS, Oxford University Press, New York, 1991, B&W frontispiece, 321pp, fine, black cloth (hardcover) (published without a dustjacket), ISBN 0195061969 One of the publications from The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers., (Order No: 13043 ), $6.00
26. Guy, Anita Aidt, MARYLAND'S PERSISTENT PURSUIT TO END SLAVERY, 1850-1864, Garland Publishing Company, New York, 1997, 617pp, fine, black cloth (hardcover) BINDING ERROR Page 9 Introduction, ISBN 0815325789 In the binding of this copy, page 9 of the introduction was folded into the gutter, otherwise no faults., (Order No: 51787 ), $35.00
27. Hamilton, Dona Cooper and Hamilton, Charles V., THE DUAL AGENDA: RACE AND SOCIAL WELFARE POLICIES OF CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS, Columbia University Press, New York, (1997) 1st ptg, 335pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0231103646 "The African-American Struggle for Civil and Economic Equality." From the New Deal to the 1990s, the author's demonstrate the many ways in which the civil rights movement fought not only to end racial segregation and discrimination but also to support social and economic justice for all Americans., (Order No: 33741 ), $8.50
28. Hannerz, Ulf, SOULSIDE - INQUIRIES INTO GHETTO CULTURE AND COMMUNITY, Columbia University Press, New York, (1969) 5th ptg, 236pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0231086512 A study of the black ghetto in Washington, DC by an anthropologist who lived there for two years., (Order No: 50217 ), $6.00
29. Harms, Robert, THE DILIGENT: A VOYAGE THROUGH THE WORLDS OF THE SLAVE TRADE, Basic Books, New York, (2002) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 466pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0465028713 Drawing upon the journals of First Lieutenant Robert Durand, Harms recreates the macabre journey of a French slave ship and interweaves it with the remarkable dramas of its slave route., (Order No: 43300 ), $10.00
30. Hausman, Gerald and Rodriques, Kelvin, AFRICAN-AMERICAN ALPHABET: A CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND WEST INDIAN CULTURE, CUSTOM, MYTH, AND SYMBOL, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1996) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 256pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0312139195 A historic and poetic A-to-Z collection of legends, traditions, and symbols that represents the great depth and breadth of African, Caribbean, and African-American culture., (Order No: 17920 ), $11.50
31. Haynie, Kerry L., AFRICAN AMERICAN LEGISLATORS IN THE AMERICAN STATES, Columbia University Press, New York, (2001) 1st ptg, figures and tables, 149pp, very good++, brown boards (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0231106440 Provides general knowledge about the nature and consequences of African American representation in state legislatures., (Order No: 40767 ), $35.00
32. Horowitz, David A. (edited by), INSIDE THE KLAVERN: THE SECRET HISTORY OF A KU KLUX KLAN OF THE 1920S, Southern Illinois Press, Carbondale, IL, (1999), 177pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 080932248X An annotated collection of the minutes of a thriving Ku Klux Klan in La Grande, Oregon, between 1922 and 1924., (Order No: 51578 ), $10.00
33. Huggins, Nathan Irvin, BLACK ODYSSEY: THE AFRO-AMERICAN ORDEAL IN SLAVERY, Pantheon Books, New York, (1977) 1st ed, 251pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0394416414 The author traces the wrenching physical and mental pathways of those thousands upon thousands of Africans who became "the captives of tyranny" from the moment the first slave ship arrived off the coast of Africa to the moment the promised post--Civil War freedom evaporated before the eyes of the former slaves., (Order No: 29940 ), $5.00
34. Huggins, Nathan Irvin (edited by Brenda Smith Huggins), REVELATIONS: AMERICAN HISTORY, AMERICAN MYTHS, Oxford University Press, New York, 1995, 288pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0195082362 A superb collection of Huggins's finest articles, reviews, and essays, spanning the entire spectrum of his thought on the African-American experience., (Order No: 51448 ), $5.00
35. Jacoby, Tamar, SOMEONE ELSE'S HOUSE: AMERICA'S UNFINISHED STRUGGLE FOR INTEGRATION, The Free Press, New York, (1998) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 614pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0684808781 A story of strong emotions and bitter conflict--over Black Power, busing, ghetto policing and affirmative action., (Order No: 28600 ), $5.00
36. Jennings, Lawrence C., FRENCH REACTION TO BRITISH SLAVE EMANCIPATION, Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge, LA, (1988), 228pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0807114294 A detailed examination of the Anglo-French antislavery connection and of the French reaction to British slave liberation in the 1830s and 1840s. Focusing primarily on France, Jennings sheds new light on the development of French emancipationism as part of a renascent humanitarian movement., (Order No: 16524 ), $8.50
37. Jones, Laurence C. (with an introduction by S. S. McClure), PINEY WOODS AND ITS STORY, Fleming H. Revell Company, New York, (1922), B&W illustrations, 154pp, good+, olive green cloth (hardcover), "This is the story, told by himself, of a Negro of education, intelligence and sensitiveness, who turned his back upon everything that usually makes life worth living for people of his kind and went, without money or influence, or even an invitation, among the poorest and most ignorant of his race, for the sole purpose of helping them in every way within his power.", (Order No: 17837 ), $12.50
38. Kirstein, Lincoln (introduction and notes by), THE HAMPTON ALBUM: 44 PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRANCES B. JOHNSTON FROM AN ALBUM OF HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Museum of Modern Art, New York, (1966), B&W illustrations, 55pp, good, wraps (softcover), These photographs, originally made for the Paris Exposition of 1900 by Frances Benjamin Johnston as part of an exhibition demonstrating contemporary life of the American Negro, comprise a body of work almost inexhaustibly revealing., (Order No: 27169 ), $6.00
39. Lamon, Lester C., BLACKS IN TENNESSEE 1791-1970, Univ. of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, TN, (1981) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 124pp, very good++, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0870493248, (Order No: 48811 ), $5.00
40. Lokos, Lionel, HOUSE DIVIDED: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, Arlinton House, New Rochelle, NY, (1969) 2nd ptg, 567pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 18005 ), $3.50
41. Lutz, Tom and Ashton, Susanna (edited by), THESE "COLORED" UNITED STATES- AFRICAN AMERICAN ESSAYS FROM THE 1920S, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, (1996), B&W illustrations, 304pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0813523060, (Order No: 45382 ), $5.00
42. Marable, Manning, BLACK LEADERSHIP, Columbia University Press, New York, (1998) 1st ptg, 238pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0231107463 With thought-provoking portraits of the styles, strategies, agendas, triumphs, and failures of black leaders, Marable charts an intellectual map of the continuing struggle for racial equality and economic progress in modern America., (Order No: 31560 ), $10.00
43. Markovitz, Irving Leonard, LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR AND THE POLITICS OF NEGRITUDE, Atheneum, New York, 1969 1st ed, 300pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), Senghor's main themes--"Negritude, " African Socialism, Nationalism--appeal both to those intellectuals who analyze the third world and to whose who wish to change it. Professor Markovitz has focused on these themes as they operate in a specific context--Senghor's Senegal., (Order No: 14400 ), $10.00
44. McLaurin, Melton A., SEPARATE PASTS - GROWING UP WHITE IN THE SEGREGATED SOUTH, University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, (1987) 4th ptg, 164pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0820310441 With candor and perception, Melton A. McLaurin recalls his youth in Wade, North Carolina, in the 1950s, when racial segregation still existed unchallenged and nearly unquestioned in the rural South., (Order No: 50576 ), $7.50
45. Meier, August and Rudwick, Elliott (edited by), THE MAKING OF BLACK AMERICA: ESSAYS IN NEGRO LIFE & HISTORY - VOLUME II: THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN MODERN AMERICA, Atheneum, New York, 1969 1st ed, 507pp, very good++, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 49089 ), $5.00
46. Miller, Kelly, RACE ADJUSTMENT, THE EVERLISTING STAIN - THE AMERICAN NEGRO HIS HISTORY AND LITERATURE SERIES, Arno Press and The NY Times, New York, 1968, 352pp, very good, black and white cloth (hardcover), ESSAYS ON THE NEGRO IN AMERICA. Originally published in 1908., (Order No: 30642 ), $30.00
47. Miller, R. Baxter (edited by), BLACK AMERICAN POETS BETWEEN WORLDS, 1940-1960 -- TENNESSEE STUDIES IN LITERATURE, VOLUME 30, University of Tennessee Pr., Knoxville, TN, (1988), 190pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0870495909, (Order No: 51902 ), $5.00
48. Morris, Ann; Ambrose, Henrietta; Nagel, John (photographic restorations by) & Hunter, Julius K. (foreword by), NORTH WEBSTER: A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF A BLACK COMMUNITY, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (1993), 141 B&W photographs, 192pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0253286018 North Webster is a black middle-class suburb west of St. Louis which began at the end of the Civil War. Its residents have suffered the discrimina- tion of a southern, border state, and yet they accomplished great things. This book is a history of that community and the people who gave it its character., (Order No: 13933 ), $8.00
49. Olbrich, Emil, THE DEVELOPMENT OF SENTIMENT ON NEGRO SUFFRAGE TO 1860, Negro Universities Press, New York, (1969), 135pp, fine, brown cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket as published), ISBN 0837117577 BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN NO. 477, HISTORY SERIES, VOL. 3, NO. 1, PP. 1-135. Originally published in 1912. This study was made during the academic year, 1905 to 1906, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts at The University of Wisconsin. Mr. Olbrich treated the whole subject of negro suffrage through the passage of the fifteenth amendment, and had planned to present these results in the form of a doctoral dissertation. In the summer of 1906, Mr. Olbrich was drowned while bathing in Lake Mendota. This is a fragment of his work., (Order No: 22833 ), $17.50
50. Perry, Lewis and Fellman, Michael (edited by), ANTISLAVERY RECONSIDERED: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ABOLITIONISTS, Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge, LA, (1979), 348pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0807104795 These essays, rather than expounding a single revisionist attitude, include every major approach to antislavery., (Order No: 37262 ), $15.00
51. Pinney, Roy, SLAVERY PAST AND PRESENT, Thomas Nelson Inc., Camden, NJ, (1972) 1st ed, 155pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0840761562 Roy Pinney provides a survey history of enslavement-slavery in ancient times, the Bible and slavery, the African slave trade, and present-day practices. By letting the facts speak for themselves, the author presents a convincing and shattering documentation of man's inhumanity to man., (Order No: 9016 ), $14.50
52. Potter, Lou; Miles, William & Rosenblum, Nina, LIBERATORS: FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS IN WORLD WAR II, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, (1992) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 303pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0151512833 The story of African-American soldiers-shunted in and out of the military, restricted to menial "service" positions, called to duty only in times of dire crisis. Utterly unprepared for the atrocities they witnessed, the soldiers recognized the bitter irony of one persecuted people rescuing another., (Order No: 13072 ), $8.50
53. Ritchie, Andrew, MAJOR TAYLOR: THE EXTRAORDINDARY CAREER OF A CHAMPION BICYCLE RACER, The Johns Hopkins Univ. Pr., Baltimore, MD, (1996), B&W illustrations, 304pp, very good++, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0801853036 This beautifully illustrated, vividly narrated, and scrupulously researched biography recreates the life of a great international athlete at the turn of the century., (Order No: 52392 ), $10.00
54. Roberts, Samuel K., IN THE PATH OF VIRTUE: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MORAL TRADITION, The Pilgrim Press, Cleveland, OH, (1999) 1st ptg, 166pp, fine, decorated tan cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0829813276 This book is an attempt to explore how black people came to understand and appropriate the classical idea of virtue as they sought to counter the regnant cultural and legal institutions that denied and brutalized their humanity., (Order No: 46964 ), $10.00
55. Roche, John P., THE QUEST FOR THE DREAM: THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND HUMAN RELATIONS IN MODERN AMERICA, The Macmillan Company, New York, (1964) 2nd ptg, 308pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), A hopeful report on the significant development of human freedom in the United States over the last fifty years., (Order No: 15724 ), $5.00
56. Rowan, Carl T., DREAM MAKERS, DREAM BREAKERS: THE WORLD OF JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, (1993) 1st ed, 36 B&W photos, 475pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0316759783 The first major biography of Justice Marshall presents an incisive portrait of the extraordinary life and career of this great figure who came to be known as "Mr. Civil Rights.", (Order No: 11569 ), $4.50
57. Seder, John and Burrell, Berkeley G. (introduction by Maurice H. Stans), GETTING IT TOGETHER: BLACK BUSINESSMEN IN AMERICA, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, (1971), B&W illustrations, 233pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0151352755 This book is about sixteen remarkable black Americans who have succeeded in that most American of pursuits--the making of money., (Order No: 26982 ), $10.00
58. Sherrard, O. A., FREEDOM FROM FEAR: THE SLAVE AND HIS EMANCIPATION, The Bodley Head, London, (1959), 200pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Recalls the part which England played in the story of slavery., (Order No: 38482 ), $6.00
59. Sherwin, Oscar, PROPHET OF LIBERTY: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WENDELL PHILLIPS, Bookman Associates, New York, (1958), 814pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "One of the most neglected well-springs of our American heritage, the great Abolition movement of pre-Civil War period, comes alive in this dramatic, yet scholarly and complete, biography of Wendell Phillips.", (Order No: 9637 ), $7.50
60. Skinner, Tom - warmly inscribed by the author, BLACK AND FREE, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, MI, (1968) 2nd ptg, B&W ill., 154pp, good+ red and black cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), Tom Skinner blasts the myths on both sides of the color spectrum with candor and intellectual honesty., (Order No: 34680 ), $10.00
61. Stapp, Carol Buchalter, AFRO-AMERICANS IN ANTEBELLUM BOSTON - AN ANALYSIS OF PROBATE RECORDS, Garland Publishing, Inc., New York, 1993, 309pp, very good+, gray cloth (hardcover), ISBN 081531194X, (Order No: 49071 ), $20.00
62. Starobin, Robert S. (edited by), BLACKS IN BONDAGE: LETTERS OF AMERICAN SLAVES, New Viewpoints, New York, 1974, 196pp, good w/good dustjacket, few spots on cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0531063666 These poignant letters, compiled from archives found in the American South, provide a unique insight into the reality of slavery, from the point of view of the slave himself., (Order No: 23543 ), $7.50
63. Steward, Austin (introduction by Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease), AUSTIN STEWARD: TWENTY-TWO YEARS A SLAVE AND FORTY YEARS A FREEMAN, Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., Reading, MA, (1969), 221pp, very good, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 46748 ), $7.50
64. Sullivan, Patricia, DAYS OF HOPE - RACE AND DEMOCRACY IN THE NEW DEAL ERA, Univ. of North Carolina Pr., Chapel Hill, NC, (1996) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 335pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0807845647 In the 1930s and 1940s, a loose alliance of blacks and whites, individuals and organizations, came together to offer a potent alternative to southern conservative politics. DAYS OF HOPE traces the rise and fall of this movement that helped shape the struggle for racial democracy in America., (Order No: 51708 ), $15.00
65. Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn, AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE STRUGGLE FOR THE VOTE, 1850-1920, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (1998), B&W illustrations, 193pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 025321176X Drawing from original documents, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn constructs a comprehensive portrait of the African American women who fought for the right to vote., (Order No: 52389 ), $14.50
66. Tharin, R. S., ARBITRARY ARRESTS IN THE SOUTH; OF, SCENES FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF AN ALABAMA UNIONIST, Negro Universities Press, New York, (1969), 245pp, very good++, brown cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket as published, ISBN 083712686X Originally published in 1863., (Order No: 37692 ), $14.50
67. Torrence, Ridgely, THE STORY OF JOHN HOPE, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1948 1st ptg, 398pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 9772 ), $7.50
68. Tower, Philo, SLAVERY UNMASKED, Negro Universities Press, New York, (1969), B&W frontis, 432pp, very good+, brown cloth (hardcover), Originally published in 1856. BEING A TRUTHFUL NARRATIVE OF A THREE YEARS' RESIDENCE AND JOURNEYING IN ELEVEN SOUTHERN STATES: TO WHICH IS ADDED THE INVASION OF KANSAS INCLUDING THE LAST CHAPTER OF HER WRONGS., (Order No: 38881 ), $20.00
69. Travis, Dempsey J., AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BLACK CHICAGO, Urban Research Institute, Chicago, IL, (1981) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 378pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0941484009 This is Travis' powerfully written account of his own life and times and he places his story firmly in the context of Black history., (Order No: 39133 ), $25.00
70. Voegeli, V. Jacque, FREE BUT NOT EQUAL: THE MIDWEST AND THE NEGRO DURING THE CIVIL WAR, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, (1969) 2nd ptg, 215pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0226859258 The first comprehensive analysis of midwestern attitudes toward the Negro during the Civil War., (Order No: 39756 ), $7.50
71. Washington, Joseph R., BLACK RELIGION: THE NEGRO AND CHRISTIANITY IN THE UNITED STATES, Beacon Press, Boston, MA, (1964) 2nd ptg, 308pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), The author analyzes the past, the current, and what may be the future trends of Christianity and the Negro in America., (Order No: 34225 ), $14.50
72. White, Deborah Gray, TOO HEAVY A LOAD: BLACK WOMEN IN DEFENSE OF THEMSELVES, 1894-1994, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, (1999) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 320pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review press release & photo, ISBN 0393046672 This book explores this century's rich history of black women defending, defining, and explaining themselves., (Order No: 19074 ), $12.50
73. Williams, Robin M., MUTUAL ACCOMMODATION - ETHNIC CONFLICT AND COOPERATION, Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, (1977), 458pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0816608229 "This book presents an assessment by a distinguished social scientist of the current state of ethnic and racial relations in the United States.", (Order No: 48518 ), $15.00
74. Wills, Garry, THE SECOND CIVIL WAR: ARMING FOR ARMAGEDDON, The New American Library, New York, (1968) 1st ptg, 169pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), Mr. Willis "ran with the hare and hunted with the hounds" to get the feel of both sides in the widening conflict signaled by 1967's riots. "Our crime is not that America is white, but that we do not even know it is. The Negro does. He knows it every time a policeman passes...this is two countries...war could arise between the two.", (Order No: 8968 ), $2.50
75. Wintz, Cary D. (edited by), THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE - A HISTORY AND AN ANTHOLOGY, Brandywine Press, Maplecrest, NY, (2003), 234pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 1881089673 Contents include: A Historical Overview of the Harlem Renaissance; African American Literature Before the Renaissance; African American Literature in Transition; The Origins of the Harlem Renaissance: 1924-1926; The Harlem Renaissance, 1926-1930; Slow Fade to Black: The 1930s., (Order No: 51851 ), $15.00