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 printing of this compilation of 24 folk protest songs collected in the 1920s and '30s, accused with little evidence of being fabricated Communist propaganda during the Cold War.
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 printing of one of the most powerful autobiographies in American literature, in exceptional condition.
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.
