Southern University Home Economics Fashion Show Program
Rare original program from the Home Economics department of a historically Black Louisiana university, showcasing student design and garment construction through a dramatic presentation.
Rare original program from the Home Economics department of a historically Black Louisiana university, showcasing student design and garment construction through a dramatic presentation.
Incsribed first edition of this biography of the famed civil rights leader and attorney.
First edition of Washington's autobiography, detailing his rise from a life born into slavery to becoming the esteemed leader of the Tuskegee Institute.
Previously unrecorded first printing of one of King's most important speeches: his anti-war address at The Riverside Church, delivered exactly one year to the day before his assassination.
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.
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).
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First edition of this anthology of Locke's philosophical writings, some previously unpublished, each "directly arguing for, criticizing, or expressing a fundamental notion of race, culture, civilization, identity, or value."
First edition of this memoir by one of the founders of the Black Panthers, with a focus on his trial as one of the "Chicago 8."
First edition of the biography of Scott Bond, a formerly enslaved man who became one of the most famous Black businessmen of the era and a model of Booker T. Washington's racial uplift philosophy.