Blind John Davis; Jimmy Walker, 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: 0-9, Blind John Davis at Columbia College; 5a, Barry Dollins, John's ... More
The Lefty Dizz Shock Treatment at the Checkerboard Lounge, 423 E. 43rd...
Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-1, Lefty Dizz (aka Walter Williams) and Ralph Metcalfe, Jr; 2a-7, K... More
Checkerboard Lounge, 423 E. 43rd St., Chicago, Illinois; religious rev...
Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 0-8, daytime scenes in front of Checkerboard Lounge; 0-5, 8, unidenti... More
Darlene Blackburn Dance Troupe, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicag...
Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers. Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-36, Darlene Blackburn Dance Troupe at the Museum of Science and Industry
Phil Hutchings oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in O...
Phil Hutchings recalls growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, his parents' involvement in many civic organizations, and attending Howard University. He remembers joining the Nonviolent Action Group (a precursor to the ... More
An essay on the origin, habits, &c. of the African race : incidental t...
Flournoy, a native of Georgia, argues for the "expulsion of every Negro and Mulatto from this Country back to their own Africa." He opposes assimilation or any other way of treating the African American than by... More
Memorial of thirty thousand disfranchised citizens of Philadelphia, to...
A petition to the Pennsylvania State Legislature by free black citizens of Philadelphia protesting their disenfranchised status as a result of the city's Convention of 1832. Included are testimonials about the ... More
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.
Proceedings of the Convention of the Equal Rights and Educational Asso...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 14228. Source: Source unknown.
The struggle between the civilization of slavery and that of freedom, ...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm. LC copy 1 replaced by microfilm. Microfilm. Washington, D. C., Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service.
The undiscovered country : the seventy-fourth anniversary address befo...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16732. Source: Source unknown.
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
A brief historical sketch of Negro education in Georgia
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Speeches at the Constitutional Convention
Smalls was an African American delegate to the South Carolina constitutional convention of 1895. He argued against proposed restrictions on the franchise and against discriminatory provisions on miscegenation a... More
National appeal to the American Negro : "Why we should favor the Chica...
Taylor appeals to his fellow African Americans to vote according to their own best interest and not to vote blindly for the Republican Party any more. In a second appeal, he says African Americans should vote f... More
Burrill Coleman, colored. A tale of cotton fields
Also available in digital form.
The Negro in America : the influence of his presence upon the material...
Hurley, a minister, addresses the question of the material, social, moral, and political influence of the African American upon the development of the United States. He finds slavery to have been an unmitigated... More
Negro criminality, - Anti-Slavery pamphlet. Library of Congress.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm. Microfilm. Washington, D. C., Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service.
Report of the Freedmen's Hospital to the Secretary of the Interior, 18...
Annual report for the year 1898-99, including an overall report by the Surgeon in Chief; tables of treatments, operations, number of patients admitted during the past thirty-five years, etc.; and a report on th... More
Some aspects of the race problem in the South
A reasoned assessment of the situation of blacks in the U.S. and the common responsibility of North and South for creating and solving America's "race problem." Covers the history of slavery in U.S. and the sta... More
Contested election case of Cornelius J. Jones vs. T.C. Catchings in Ho...
Brief of a legal case in which an African American alleges irregularities in a recent Congressional election in Mississippi. Included are excerpts from the Mississippi state constitution and election laws, news... More
Brother officers - African American sheet music 1883-1923
Parts: piano, 1st violin, 2nd violin, viola, cello, bass, flute & piccolo, oboe, bassoon, 1st B-flat clarinet, 2nd B-flat clarinet, horns in F, 1st B-flat cornet, 2nd B-flat cornet, trombone, drums. (Content) C... More
Supreme Court of the United States, October term, 1902, no. 493 : Jack...
A legal brief presenting the case of an African American, Jackson W. Giles, against Montgomery County, Alabama, challenging the suffrage provisions of the 1901 constitution of the State of Alabama. Giles charge... 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
Maiden with the dreamy eyes - African American sheet music 1883-1923
Parts: solo B-flat cornet (2), E-flat cornet (2), B-flat tenors (2), drums (2), 1st B-flat clarinet (2), E-flat clarinet (2), tuba (2), 2nd & 3rd E-flat alto (2), piccolo in D-flat, 3rd B-flat clarinet, oboe, b... More
La Fiancee: Waltzes - African American sheet music 1883-1923
Parts: piano, 1st violin, 2nd violin, viola, cello, bass, flute, oboe, bassoon, 1st clarinet in A, 2nd clarinet in A, horns in F, 1st cornet in A, 2nd cornet in A, trombone, drums. (Content) Copyright, MCMIII, ... 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
By right of sword - African American sheet music 1883-1923
Bound with and shelved under "Mockin' bird rube" by William Tyers, cataloged separately. (Content) Copyright MCMIV by M. Witmark & Sons N.Y. (Copyright) Parts: piano, 1st violin, 2nd violin, viola, cello, bass,... More
Clorinda, musical notation - African American sheet music 1883-1923
Parts: 1st cornet in B-flat-conductor, ripieno cornet in B-flat, 2nd cornet in B-flat, 3rd & 4th conets in B-flat, soprano cornet in E-flat, piccolo in E-flat, 1st clarinet in B-flat, 2nd clarinet in B-flat, cl... More
Echoes of the Emancipation proclamation,
Also available in digital form.
Two speeches by Roscoe Conkling Bruce, assistant superintendent of pub...
Cover title. Delivered at the Howard University alumni banquet on May 26 and at the joint commencement of Normal School No. 2, M Street High School, and Armstrong Manual Training School on June 18, 1909. Source... More
The progress of the Negro race : address of Hon. Boies Penrose
Cover title. "Address of Hon. Boies Penrose at a patriotic race service, held by the Negroes of Philadelphia ... March 1, 1914"--P. 3. Source: Bequest of Daniel Murray, 1925. LAC ael 2019-04-11 no edits (1 card... More
Castle walk - African American sheet music 1883-1923
Parts: piano, 1st violin, 2nd violin, viola, cello, bass, piccolo, 1st clarinet in A, 1st cornet in A, 2nd cornet in A, trombone, drums. (Content) Copyr. MCMXIV (Copyright) "Castle Perferct Trot", also by Europ... More
Bugle call rag - African American sheet music 1883-1923
Parts: solo B-flat cornet (3), 1st B-flat clarinet (2), basses (2), 2nd & 3rd B-flat clarinets, 1st & 2nd trombones - bass clef (2), 1st & 2nd trombones - treble clef (2), 2nd & 3rd B-flat cornets (2), 1st & 2n... More
Call of the woods - African American sheet music 1883-1923
Parts: piano, 1st violin (2), 2nd violin, viola, cello, bass, flute, oboe, bassoon, 1st clarinet in B-flat, 2nd clarinet in B-flat, horns in F, 1st cornet in B-flat, 2nd cornet in B-flat, trombone, drums. (Cont... More
Those draftin' blues - African American sheet music 1883-1923
Parts: piano, 1st violin, 2nd violin, viola, cello, bass, flute, 1st clarinet in A, 1st cornetin A, 2nd cornet in A, trombone, drums. (Content) Copyr. MCMXVIII by Jos. Stern & Co. N.Y (Copyright) On reverse pag... More
Some observations on political parties in Virginia ..
Cover title. Also available in digital form.