The present list comprises twenty-five items of African-American history, from slavery to the Civil Rights era, from Phillis Wheatley to Dr. King. Highlights include a rare directory from Detroit; an annotated photo album from a young Black woman in Missouri; a first printing of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham City Jail; a rare African-American novel; the law banning the slave trade in Mexico, and more. Enjoy!
Download PDF of List #39 - From Slavery to Civil Rights![Item #3518 Profit Sharing Loan Certificate [caption title]. African Americana](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3518.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1661782148)
[Des Moines, Ia. Robert E. Patten, 1951]. Broadside, 8 x 6 inches, printed in brown ink within a decorative border. Mild toning. A rare sample copy of an original promotional certificate offering a loan to prospective members of a “Co-operative movement” in Iowa. African-American publisher, printer, and Co- operative movement..... More
Milledgeville, Ga. 1947. [43]pp., printed on rectos only. Illustrated. Original red textured wrappers, screw bound. Minor edge wear, a few short closed tears. Gift inscription to title leaf from the school's principal, otherwise clean internally. A humbly-produced yearbook for George Washington Carver High School, an African American segregated school in..... More
![Item #3463 Little Known History of...the Negro [caption title]. African Americana, Michigan](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3463.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1657312087)
Detroit: 1956. Large-format pictorial wall calendar on twelve sheets, each sheet measuring 19.5 x 13.5 inches, bound at top with a strip of black plastic. Minor wrinkling and staining, small hole in the last leaf costing a bit of one illustration. An interesting and ephemeral wall calendar created in 1956..... More
[Albany: NAACP Northeastern Region, ca. 1965]. Four-color broadside, 14 x 11 inches. Soft central horizontal crease, minor adhesive remnants on verso from former mounting. A striking four-color broadside produced by the New York State Conference of the NAACP in Albany to encourage African American men and women to exercise their..... More
Columbia, Mo. [ca. 1935]. [10] leaves, illustrated with thirty-one mounted photographs. Contemporary black cloth photograph album, string tied. Minor wear to edges. Some photographs missing. A nice album. A nicely-captioned vernacular photograph album assembled by Cassie Johnson of Columbia, Missouri. Johnson and a few friends have signed the front cover..... More
![Item #3338 [Cabinet Card of an African-American Mother and Children in Rural Kansas]....](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3338.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1655303921)
Salina, Ks. Atherton & Hopkins, [ca. 1890-1900]. Cabinet card photograph, 5.5 x 4 inches, on a slightly larger studio mount printed "Atherton & Hopkins Salina, Kans." Minor edge wear, small "X" handwritten above one subject's head within the image, a few small paper remnants to verso. A striking image of..... More
[Los Angeles: 1964]. Pictorial broadside, 11 x 8.5 inches, printed in blue, with portrait of Dr. King at top right. Minor edge wear and creasing, small chip to bottom right corner, old horizontal center fold. A rare broadside promoting a multi-faith event focused on "Religious Witness for Human Dignity," held..... More
Edgefield County, S.C. June 4, 1871. [5]pp. on lined paper. Folio. Brad bound at top edge. Minor soiling, old folds. Contemporary manuscript copy of the 1849 last will and testament of Mary Giles Carroll as certified by Judge David L. Turner of the Probate Court of Edgefield County, South Carolina..... More