Mary Church Terrell Papers: Miscellany, 1851-1954; Clippings; Unarrang...
Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Mary Church Terrell Papers: Miscellany, 1851-1954; Clippings; Unarrang...
Public domain scan of newspaper clippings. Free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Riddle's Bar, 312 E. 43rd, Chicago, Illinois
Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-7, Riddle's Bar, 312 E. 43rd, Chicago, left to right, Mae McEven, u... More
James Mack, musician, Chicago, Illinois; Theresa's Lounge, Chicago, Il...
Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-2, fieldworker Ralph Metcalfe, Jr., James Mack, musician and educat... More
The Lefty Dizz Shock Treatment at the Checkerboard Lounge, 423 E. 43rd...
Image numbers, descriptions: 1- 20, the Lefty Dizz Shock Treatment at the Checkerboard Lounge, 423 E. 43rd, Chicago, musicians: Lefty Dizz, lead guitar and vocal (wearing flowered shirt); Sylvia Embry, bass (lo... More
Clarence B. Jones oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline i...
Dr. Clarence B. Jones shares memories from his work as a legal advisor and speechwriter for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In particular, he describes his significant contributions to the "I Have a Dream" speech, ... More
The second annual report of the American Society for Colonizing the Fr...
Report of the Society's progress toward exploring the coast of West Africa in search of a site for a future colony. The appendix contains journal extracts from the Society's West Africa expedition, with much at... More
An inquiry into the merits of the American Colonization Society: and a...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Poems on miscellaneous subjects
Harper was a freed African American woman from Baltimore. These poems range over a wide variety of subjects, but her basic concern is the female and womanhood. Appended are several essays on Christianity, the B... More
Welcome to the ransomed, or, Duties of the colored inhabitants of the ...
Author statement taken from p. [3]. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16619. Source: Source unknown.
The hand of God with the black race : a discourse delivered before the...
Cover title. Also available in digital form.
Opinions of the early Presidents, and of the fathers of the Republic, ...
The Loyal Publication Society here reproduces the writings of the Founding Fathers on slavery and the African American, designed to demonstrate the Founding Fathers' opposition to slavery. "New York, Oct., 1863... More
Notes on colored troops and military colonies on southern soil
The officer has high praise for most African American soldiers and proposes organizinf them into an army after the Civil War and settling them on farms in the South. Copyrighted by S. B. Brague. Also available ... More
Rights of the coloured race to citizenship and representation; and the...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has ink stamp on t.p.: Received by the president May 22 1865. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 17037. Source: Source unknown.
The Negro's place in nature: a paper read before the London Anthropolo...
In double columns. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Equal suffrage: address from the colored citizens of Norfolk, Va., to ...
Cover title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated;...
Public domain scan of a poetry manuscript, poem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
The Republic of Liberia : an address delivered by Hon. Joseph J. Rober...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 18447. Source: Source unknown.
Charles Sumner Correspondence, periodicals
French translation of: Sumner, Charles. Interest and duty of colored citizens in the Presidential elections. Washington : F. & J. Rives & Geo. A. Bailey, 1872. Caption title. Also available in digital form.
Africa and colonization : an address delivered before the American Col...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 13583. Source: Source unknown.
Civil rights - Speech by Thomas Manson Norwood
Against the social equality of the Negroes. Also available in digital form.
North America and Africa: their past, present and future
Also available in digital form.
Twentieth annual report of the National Association for the Relief of ...
Contains the Act of Incorporation and by-laws, officers, income and donations, and events of 1882. "Extract from the Matrons Report of October 1882, List of fruits and vegetables gathered from the garden since ... More
Common sense in common schooling : a sermon
Crummell, pastor of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., from 1879 to 1898, spoke out for black liberation and founded the Negro Academy. He gives a critique of seeming trends in African American ed... More
The black laws! : speech of Hon. B.W. Arnett of Greene County, and Hon...
Arnett examines the civil rights of African Americans in Ohio, Jim Crow laws and segregation, and African American education in Ohio schools, and he pleads for repeal of Ohio's segregation laws, the text of whi... More
Hell located, described, and measured according to the Bible and scien...
Taylor, an African American Baptist minister and a prominent Republican, uses both "science" and the Bible to explore the creation and structure of the earth and to locate a possible Hell in earth's molten inte... More
The race problem: great speech of Frederick Douglass, delivered before...
In this speech, the elder Douglass reacts to southern "Resurrectionists" and their attempts to deprive southern blacks of their recently won civil rights. He examines the so-called "Negro problem" in this light... More
The southern struggle for pure government
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Future : containing great lecturers on the future of the colored race,...
Burks, an Indiana lawyer, provides social criticism from a black perspective. He gives three lectures here. First, the situation of the black race - its morality, its faults, the issue of African American emigr... More
The race problem in the South - African American Perspectives Material...
LeConte was the son of a former slave-owner in Georgia and president of the Society for the Advancement of Science. In response to the question of what is to be done with freed slaves, LeConte argues for the se... More
Emancipation address : our duties and how to discharge them : delivere...
Williams, an African American professor in a normal school, speaks about the duties of African Americans to their race, the state, and the nation. Among these are the need for good home and family life, for edu... More
The Shakesperean school of ethics
A literary address on ethics in Shakespeare's writings presented by a prominent black Baltimore lawyer to African American audiences. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy ... More
Idle moments, containing Emancipation and other poems by D. Webster Da...
Webster was an African American poet from Richmond, Va. Here are several short poems or selections from poems that are humorous or didactic or that contain reminiscences. Subjects range from sketches of childho... More
A review of Hoffman's Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.
National Baptist statistics and Sunday School text book, 1900
Contains statistics on the African American Baptist Church in the U.S.; a state-by-state survey of Baptist associations, church membership, schools, property, contributions to missions, etc., for states of the ... More
Selected writings and addresses
In these writings, which include an article by Pratt, a Baltimore African American, entitled "Some aspects of the race question," Pratt argues that African Americans need practical education and gainful employm... More
Address, delivered before the Georgia State Industrial College for Col...
A graduation address in which Arnett, A.M.E. bishop of South Carolina and Georgia, speaks about the social and educational achievements of African Americans and about prospects for future achievements and equal... More
Army reorganization : speech of Hon. George H. White, of North Carolin...
White, an African American Congressman from North Carolina, in speaking in favor of annexation of the Philippines, pleads for equal treatment and respect for blacks and whites and says African Americans want ju... More
Coon delights - African American sheet music 1883-1923
Parts: piano, 1st violin, 2nd violin, viola, cello, bass, flute, oboe, bassoon, 1st B-flat clarinet, 2nd B-flat clarinet, horns in F, 1st B-flat cornet, 2nd B-flat cornet, trombone, drums. (Content) Copyright M... More
A Republican text-book for colored voters
A highly partisan campaign booklet for black voters, designed to show them that they have prospered under the Republican Party and thus to persuade them to vote Republican in upcoming elections. Cover title. Al... More
The maiden with the dreamy eyes: medley overture
The maiden with the dreamy eyes--Ha-le-ha-lo--While the convent bells were ringing--The phrenologist coon--I'm goin' to live anyhow till I die--My castle on the nile--The old flag never touched the ground--Nanc... More
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October term, 1902 : John B...
Brownfield was a African American from South Carolina convicted of murder and sentenced to death. This is a legal brief challenging the selection of the all-white jury that tried and convicted him. It constitut... More
La fiancee : Waltzes - African American sheet music 1883-1923
Parts: 1st violin, 2nd violin, viola, bass, flute, 1st clarinet in A, 1st cornet in A, 2nd cornet in A, trombone, drums. (Content) Copyright MCMIII, by M. Witmark & Sons, N.Y. (Copyright) 19 blank pages
The destiny of the American Negro
Sutherland addresses a medical association in Memphis, Tennessee. A white doctor, he advocates separation of the white and black races for moral and medical reasons, regarding African Americans as an inferior r... More
I'll keep a warm spot in my heart for you
Medley includes "Ontario". Bound with and shelved under "My Very Own" by Kummer. (Content) Copyright MCMVI by Jos. W. Stern & Co. (Copyright) Parts: piano, 1st violin, 2nd violin, viola, cello, bass, flute, 1st... More
Echoes of the Emancipation proclamation,
Also available in digital form.
Uncle Tom's cabin for children - Rare book, public domain, Library of ...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Scott Joplin's new rag - African American sheet music 1883-1923
Parts: piano, 1st violin, 2nd violin, viola, cello, bass, flute or piccolo, 1st clarinet in A, 1st cornet in A, 2nd cornet in A, trombone, drums (Content) Copyright MCMXII by Jos. W. Stern & Co. N.Y. (Copyright... More
Intermarriage of whites and negroes in the District of Columbia and se...
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