Inscribed first printing of this account of the history of emancipation and what it meant for the identities of formerly enslaved Black Americans, given as part of the Nathan I. Huggins Lectures.

True first edition of this WWII-era collection of facts and profiles of notable Black Americans and reflections on Black culture, written by a Black minister for an expressly Black audience.

First printing in book form of the landmark study that "transformed the study of slavery — and of economic history" (Jamelle Bouie).

First edition of this contemporary look at the lives of Black people in Chicago in the 1940s, a "monumental study of race relations and African American social structure" (Finkelman, 90).

First edition of this volume of devotional addresses by Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered in 1958 on the heels of the success of the Montgomery bus boycott.

First edition of this anthology of Locke's philosophical writings, some previously unpublished, each "directly arguing for, criticizing, or expressing a fundamental notion of race, culture, civilization, identity, or value."

Early printing, scarce in any form, of this persuasive essay on the double standard in the application of American laws to Black people and white people, including chapters on lynching and segregation.

First printing of this history of New York's Black population, from the end of the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance, with a reflection on how that history informed the civil rights movement.

Inscribed first edition of this significant sociological study of colorism and the construction of beauty in African American communities of the 1970s, published by a Black scholar.