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James Baldwin
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son
Call Number: E185.61.B197 1961a
Publication Date: 1961
New York, N.Y.: Dell Pub. Co., c1961.
The Fire Next Time
Call Number: E185.61.B195 1963
Publication Date: 1963
London: M. Joseph, 1963.
Going to Meet the Man
Call Number: PS3552.A45G6 1965a
Publication Date: 1965
London: Michael Joseph, 1965.
A Rap on Race
by
Margaret Mead and James Baldwin
Call Number: E185.61.M48
Publication Date: 1971
Philadelphia, Lippincott [1971]
A Dialogue
by
James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni
Call Number: E185.625.B34
Publication Date: 1973
Philadelphia, Lippincott [1973]. Foreword by Ida Lewis. Afterword by Orde Coombs.
No Name in the Street
Call Number: E185.615.B28 1972a
Publication Date: 1973
New York: Dell, 1973.
The Devil Finds Work: An Essay
Call Number: PS3552.A45Z515
Publication Date: 1976
New York: Dial Press, 1976.
Charles Ball
Slavery in the United States; a Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man, Who Lived Forty Years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a Slave...
Call Number: E444.B18 1836
Publication Date: 1836
Lewistown, Pa., J. W. Shugert, 1836.
Fifty Years in Chains, or, The Life of an American Slave
Call Number: E444.B18 1858
Publication Date: 1858
New York: H. Dayton; Indianapolis, Ind.: Dayton & Asher, 1858.
Benjamin Bannecker
Benjamin Banneker’s Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Almanack and Ephemeris, for the Year of Our Lord, 1792: Being Bissextile, or Leap Year, and the Sixteenth Year of American Independence, Which Commenced July 4, 1776
Call Number: QB7.B256 1792
Publication Date: 1792
Baltimore: Printed and sold... by William Goddard and James Angell, [1792?]
Banneker’s Almanac, for the Year 1795: Being the Third After Leap Year: Containing (Besides Every Thing Necessary in an Almanac) an Account of the Yellow Fever, Lately Prevalent in Philadelphia, with the Number of Those Who Died, from the First of August
Call Number: QB7.B256 1795
Publication Date: 1795
Philadelphia: Printed for William Young, bookseller..., [1794]
Arna Bontemps
Free at Last: The Life of Frederick Douglass
Call Number: E449.D7513
Publication Date: 1971
New York, Dodd, Mead [1971]
Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Call Number: E449.D746
Publication Date: 1845
Boston: Pub. at the Anti-slavery office, 1845.
My Bondage and My Freedom
Call Number: E449.D738
Publication Date: 1855
New York, Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. With an introduction by Dr. James M’Cune Smith.
Addresses of the Hon. W. D. Kelley, Miss Anna E. Dickinson, and Mr. Frederick Douglass, at a Mass Meeting... Philadelphia, July 6, 1863, for the Promotion of Colored Enlistments
by
William D. Kelley, Anna E. Dickinson, and Frederick Douglass
Call Number: E540.N3K3
Publication Date: 1863
[Philadelphia, 1863]
The Equality of All Men Before the Law: Claimed and Defended in Speeches by Hon. William D. Kelley, Wendell Phillips, and Frederick Douglass, and Letters from Elizur Wright and Wm. Heighton
Call Number: E185.2.K29 1865
Publication Date: 1865
Boston: Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1865.
Life and times of Frederick Douglass, written by himself. His Early Life as a Slave, his Escape From Bondage, and his Complete History to the Present Time, Including his Connection With the Anti-Slavery Movement
Call Number: E449.D74
Publication Date: 1881
Hartford, Conn., Park publishing, 1881. With an introduction by Mr. George L. Ruffin.
Josiah Henson
The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself
Call Number: E444.H52 1849
Publication Date: 1849
Boston, A. D. Phelps, 1849.
Father Henson’s Story of His Own Life
Call Number: E444.H523 1858
Publication Date: 1858
Boston, J.P. Jewett; Cleveland, H. P. B. Jewett, 1858. With an introd. by H. B. Stowe.
Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Father Henson’s Story of His Own Life
Call Number: E444.H523
Publication Date: 1858
Boston: J.P. Jewett and Company, 1858. With an introduction by Mrs. H.B. Stowe.
Matthew Henson
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
Call Number: G635.H4A3 1912
Publication Date: 1912
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, c1912. With a foreword by Robert E. Peary; and an introduction by Booker T. Washington; with illustrations from photographs.
Alain Locke
The New Negro: An Interpretation
Call Number: E185.82.L75
Publication Date: 1925
New York, A. and C. Boni, 1925. Book decoration and portraits by Winold Reiss.
African Art: Classic Style
Call Number: N7380.L6
[s.l. : s.n., 19--]
Huey Newton
Huey Newton Talks to The Movement About the Black Panther Party, Cultural Nationalism, SNCC Liberals and White Revolutionaries
Call Number: PN841.A1 no. 234
Boston: New England Free Press, [197-]
The Genius of Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense, Black Panther Party
Call Number: PN841.A1 no. 522.N42
Publication Date: 1970
[San Francisco, Ministry of Information, Black Panther Party, introd. 1970]. Introd. by Eldridge Cleaver.
Solomon Northrup
Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, From a Cotton Plantation Near the Red River, in Louisiana
Call Number: E444.N87
Publication Date: 1853
Auburn, Derby and Miller; Buffalo, Derby, Orton and Mulligan; [etc., etc.] 1853.
William Still
The Underground Rail Road. A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, as Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author
Call Number: E450.S85 1872
Publication Date: 1872
Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, 1872.
An Address on Voting and Laboring, Delivered at Concert Hall, Tuesday Evening, March 10th, 1874.
Call Number: JK1849.S75 1875
Publication Date: 1875
Philadelphia, Jas. B. Rodgers Co., Printers, 1874.
The Underground Rail Road: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, as Related by Themselves and Others or Witnessed by the Author
Call Number: E450.S85 1883
Publication Date: 1883
Philadelphia: Wm. Still, publisher, 244 South 12th Street, Philadelphia, 1883.
John Thompson
The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave; Containing his History of 25 Years in Bondage, and his Providential Escape
Call Number: E444.T47
Publication Date: 1856
Worcester, J. Thompson, 1856.
John Williams
The Angry Black
Call Number: PS509.N4A54 1962
Publication Date: 1962
New York: Lancer Books, [1962]
Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Call Number: E185.97.L5A3
Publication Date: 1965
New York, Grove Press [1965]. With the assistance of Alex Haley. Introd. by M. S. Handler. Epilogue by Alex Haley.
Malcolm X Talks to Young People
Call Number: PN841.A1 no. 535
Publication Date: 1965
New York: Pathfinder Press, 1965.
Two Speeches by Malcolm X
Call Number: PN841.A1 no. 538
Publication Date: 1965
N.Y.: Pathfinder Press, 1965.
Malcolm X on Afro-American History
Call Number: PN841.A1 no. 17
Publication Date: 1967
New York, Merit Publishers, 1967.
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