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 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.
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."
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.
