African americans (21 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Like New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Like New. 1st Edition: July 2014. 430 + xii + pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and very light shelf wear. Kelly S. Too (Design); Young Jin Lim (Jacket Desig); African-Americans on A Plantation Owned by J.J. Smith in Beaufort, South Carolina (Jacket Photo) (ilustrador).…

No Binding. Condición: VG. None. RR-3. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 still. Size: 8" x 10". Photographic Image.

Condición: Very Good. 6 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: A4 Size. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 3 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: A4 Size. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 395 pages. John E Jacob "Black America, 1991: An Overview" / Billy J Tidwell "Serving the National Interest: A Marshall Plan for America" / Bernard C Watson "The Demographic Revolution: Diversity in 21st Century America" / David H Swinton "The Economic Status of African Americans: Limited Ownership and Persistent Inequality" / William A Darity, Jr and Samuel L Myers, Jr "Racial Earnings Inequality into the 21st Century" / Shirley M McBay "The Condition of African American Education: Changes and Challenges" / Robert D Bullard "Urban Infrastructure: Social, Environmental, and Health Risks to African Americans" / Dianne Pinderhughes "Power and Progress: African American Politics in the New Era of Diversity". (SL#125/19).…

First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine unread copy in a Fine dust jacket. This saga of black soldiers whose struggle to reach the front lines was shadowed by racism begins with debates among black leaders over whether African-Americans should withhold support for the war until steps toward equality were made, then follows the harrowing path of the 15th Regiment of Colored Infantryís formation which, lacking a proper armory, drilled in the streets of Harlem and a local dance hall. The 15th was ready to fight by 1917, but was forbidden from serving under U.S. command by General John J. Pershing, who handed over the re-named 369th to the French Army. This story of arms and a bandóled by jazz pioneer Lieutenant James Reese Europeóthat toured Europeís hospitals, villages, and cities, is an important portrait of the soldiers whose return to U.S. soil, complete with a spectacular parade up Fifth Avenue, helped fuel the Harlem Renaissance.…

4to. xiv, 151, [1] pp. Numerous photos, architectural renderings, and diagrams. Cream-coloured softcovers, w/ colour-illustrated softcovers (slight bowing to front cover), still VG/VG copy, from the Clark County Historical Society Collections, recently deaccessioned. First edition, 2nd printing, of this informative work examining the history of the largest public housing project in the United States built for workers in Kaiser shipyards during World War II, and due to racist Oregon state housing restrictions a significant majority of the shipyard's African-American workforce was confined to the segregated housing destroyed by the flood in 1948. Oregon and Portland were well known for their extreme restrictions of allowing African-Americans to settle in the State and Area, and in fact barred African-Americans from voting until the law was revoked in 1927, and continued redlining after the War ended which forced over 20,000 people to still remain living in what was originally intended to be temporary housing in Oregon's second largest city.…

Paperback. Condición: Fair. First edition. 255pp. Octavo [20 cm] Illustrated wraps. In fragile condition. The text block has almost completely pulled away from the spine. Text block cracked here and there. Based on the author's experiences in Pittsburgh's Allegheny County Jail in 1941. In Brown's novel, three African American communist political prisoners, spearhead a campaign to free Lonnie James, a framed African American youth on death row. An early novel depicting the actions of political prisoners in the United States.…

4to. Original staples and printed and decorative yellow title wrappers. iii, [1 blank], 21, [1 blank] pp. Wraps dusted, Very Good.

First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 80pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, some mild wrinkling to lower rear corners due to moisture; Near Fine. Debut issue of this short-lived sports entertainment magazine established by African American author, editor, and publicity consultant Florence Anthony. Contents include feature articles on Darryl Strawberry, Magic Johnson, Deion Sanders, Butch Lewis, Michael Spinks, George Foreman, and others. OCLC notes a single holding for any issues (LC).…

First Edition. Quarto (27.75cm); illustrated wrapers, stapled; [ii],34pp; illus. A few tiny rubbed spots on wrappers, else Fine. Educational coloring book, each page with accompanying text, compiled by 16 year old Ayanna Zareef, a student at the Arts School in Oakland, California. "This project was pursued with the objective of stimulating the young mind with the awareness of a great and amazing continent." Uncommon; not found in OCLC.…

First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; unpaginated; photographic illus. throughout. A hint of toning to spine edge, else Near Fine. Additional ephemera from the Dinner laid in, including a flyer advertising a workshop on community drug abuse prevention; a staplebound pamphlet "Tribute to Youth: Additional Recognitions of Outstanding Montgomery County Black Youth"; and a staplebound pamphlet "Special Appreciation Extended to Purchasers of Full Tables." Though OCLC notes several such local Freedom Fund Dinner publications, we find none issued for the Montgomery County chapter of the NAACP as of October, 2018.…

Small octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-44 [45-48: blank], yellow wrappers printed in black, stapled. First edition. Collects four stories: "Goldenrod," "The Bad Dream," "Three on a Bus" and "To Answer For." "A series of fictional vignettes, apparently based on the author's personal experiences in the school integration movement in the Jim Crow South; most of the scenes are set in Memphis" (U of VA catalogue note). OCLC locates copies at Yale, U of VA and U of TN (Knoxville). A fine copy. Uncommon. (#176516).…

All three scripts bound together in one volume. This special leather bound copy belonged to the showÕs co-executive producer and writer of the scripts, Jack Haley, Jr., and has his name in gilt on the front board below the title - also in gilt, as is the spine. 59 pages. Fine lovely copy. The Pin-Up Girls script is a study of how the Pin-Up Girl emerged during World War II with actresses Ann Sheridan known as the Oomph Girl, Lana Turner the Sweater Girl, Dorothy Lamour the Sarong Girl, Chili Williams the Polkadot Girl, Marie MacDonald known as The Body, Rita Hayworth was known as The Love Goddess, and the most famous of all Betty Grable with her Milllion Dollar Legs. Black Magic looks at African American entertainers in Hollywood films with Bill Bojangles Robinson, Lena Horne, Nat King Cole, the Nicholas Brothers, Harry Belafonte, and Diana Ross. The This Is Raquel script is a look at the life of actress Raquel Welch.…

Pamphlet. Condición: Very good condition. First printing. Three reports from the Quakers during the Civil War on their ministry amongst the "Colored Refugees" of Virginia & Washington DC, reporting on the conditions and needs at Fort Monroe, Camp Barker, Craney Island, Alexandria, Hampton, Norfolk, etc. Conditions are tough in the refugee camps but none wish to return to where they have fled from. "Slaves have been abandoned and we must help. Don't we owe them for our prosperity--- enjoying indirectly from the unrequited labor of these people." Encyclopedia Virginia writes on their website- "In this report, dated May 1864, the Committee on Colored Refugees, who were representatives of the New York Yearly Meeting of Friends, gives its assessment of the needs of the formerly enslaved people escaping behind Union lines and how Quaker charity efforts were meeting them in contraband camps across Virginia, including Alexandria. One of their agents, Harriet Jacobs, wrote her own letter documenting what she saw in Alexandria and Washington, D.C. For Quakers, the abolition of slavery was a moral and religious imperative." Title continues: Address of the Representatives of New-York Yearly Meeting of Friends to Its Members.; Third Report of Committee of the Representatives of New York Yearly Meeting of Friends upon the Condition and Wants of the Colored Refugees 1862 Report OCLC: 21308787 8vo, 30pp, black title on cream paper wraps, saddle stitched. Clean throughout. 1862 Address OCLC: 25519700 8vo, 10pp. October 24th, 1862. 1864 Third Report, OCLC: 25113848 cites 9 copies; 8vo, 23pp, May 1864 (slt. marked wrapper). All in their original self wrappers overall in very good condition. …

Condición: Good. - 566 words typed on an eleven inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide sheet of Queens College letterhead. Signed "Hortense Powdermaker " with her name and "Chairman Department of Anthropology-Sociology" typed below the signature. There is light creasing to the top & bottom edges of the letter with a paperclip mark to the top edge. The recipient has heavily marked the letter with a phone number and date & with brackets around the body of the letter and Powdermaker's signature. Folded 3 times for mailing. Good. Powdermaker writes that she will be be happy to speak at Rugg's All-College Luncheon Forum. "Would you like me to talk about the 'Relationship of Hollywood to American Life' or 'The Relationship of Movies to American Life'" or something else?"Hortense Powdermaker [1900-1970] was an American anthropologist, best known for her ethnographic studies of African Americans in Indianola, Mississippi and of Hollywood. After studying at Goucher College and working as a labor organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, she left the United States to study at the London School of Economics. While at LSE she worked under and was influenced by several well-known anthropologists, including Bronislaw Malinowski, who persuaded her to pursue doctoral studies. She completed her Ph.D. on "Leadership in Primitive Society" in 1928. Returning to the United States, she was given an appointment at the new Yale Institute of Public Relations. The institute's director Edward Sapir encouraged her to apply ethnographic field methods to the study of communities in her own society. As a result she conducted anthropological field work in an Indianola African American community, recording this work in "After Freedom: A Cultural Study in the Deep South" [1939]. Her other best known book, "Hollywood, the Dream Factory" [1950] was written while she was working at Queens College where she founded the departments of Anthropology and Sociology during a career spanning three decades.One of the best-known educators during the Progressive era of education, Harold Rugg (1886-1960) was a professor of education at Teachers College of Columbia University. A Civil Engineer, he had become interested in how students learn and pursued a doctorate in education. He was responsible for producing the very first series of school textbooks from 1929 until the 1940s.…

First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm); beige printed wrappers, stapled; 12pp. Pamphlet is vertically folded at center, wrappers dusty, edgeworn, and nearly detached along spine fold; 7 brief passages marked in pencil; Good, complete copy. Summary of details regarding the salary scale for the academic faculty of Howard University, presented to their Board of Trustees. Includes extracts and correspondence from faculty to members of the board, including the full text of Dean Kelly Miller's letter to Dr. Michael O. Dumas, and hard data as to proposed pay increases for the various positions. OCLC finds a single copy (Emory University).…

A collection of thirteen real photo postcards featuring young African American Navy midshipmen serving or training during World War II, twelve of which have been signed by the subjects in the margin below their photographs. Seven of the men have also added their address below their names, while one serviceman inscribed his to "Mr. Strong." The sailors hail from a variety of locations, namely Tennessee, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Illinois, Maryland, and New York (two from Brooklyn). The men are all posed, likely against a studio backdrop, and each is dressed in a blue uniform and white hat. The United States Navy was much slower to welcome African-American servicemen and integrate than the Army. In 1942, the Navy expanded service opportunities for African Americans beyond mess service, and Camp Robert Smalls was created within Naval Station Great Lakes to host the first full, albeit segregated, training programs. The Navy began desegregating training in 1944, with the first thirteen African Americans becoming commissioned and warrant officers that same year (the "Golden Thirteen"). By 1945, all training was fully integrated. A useful group of photographs signed by African-American midshipmen of the Greatest Generation, braving the American Navy during a transformative time in its history. Moderate surface wear and silvering to some photos, minor edge wear. Overall very good.…

N.p. (Virginia?): S.n., Copyright January 21, 1903. Illustrated Broadside of a Fictional African American Courtroom Scene in "Negro" Dialect [Broadside]. [African Americans]. [Virginia]. Trial of Richard Wilson by John Malone, Colored Magistrate. N.p. (Virginia?): S.n., Copyright January 21, 1903. 14" x 11" (36 cm x 28 cm) broadside mounted on thick-paper board, large halftone photographic image above headline and two-column text, sections divided by ornamental rules. Moderate toning, faint spotting, light wear to corners, faint stain, small tear and gouge to right-side edge. $1,500. * A typical example of racist dialect story, but with an uncommon legal theme, this "humorous" broadside presents a "court report" of a fictional trial with African American parties, witnesses and court officers. Richard Wilson, who claims "I never stole nothing from de cradle to de cross," is accused of stealing a pair of women's shoes belonging to "Bettie Brown" from the "steer cart of James Jones." After much confused testimony, Wilson is cleared by circumstantial evidence: no one was able to disprove his claim that "dem things" just "drap out de cart." The photograph is not a trial scene; it is of a large African American family, likely sharecroppers, along with two white men. OCLC locates 2 copies (Virginia Historical Society, Yale Law School). N.p. (Virginia?): S.n., Copyright January 21, 1903 (ilustrador). …

8.8 x 6.4 cm. N.p. [USA], n.d., late 1800s. Roughly cut edges with slight rust on the upper edge and top left corner. Tintypes were produced in huge numbers but an image of twin, black sisters is probably a rarity. The un-sheeted background has also been captured making this a very casual, naturalistic and almost accidental portrait of two sisters dressed identically in black. 130978. …

Washington, DC: Scurlock Studio, [1944]. A Rare 1944 Class Portrait of the Robert H. Terrell Law School, Produced by the Celebrated Scurlock Studio [Law Schools]. [African Americans]. Class of 1944. Robert H. Terrell Law School. [Washington, DC]: Scurlock Studio, [1944]. Undated composite photograph measuring 11" x 13-1/2" (27.9 x 34.3 cm), with hand-lettered text, mounted on 14" x 17" (35.6 x 43.2 cm) illustration board. Toning and light soiling, chips, tears and creases to edges of board, upper and lower left corners creased, lower right corner lacking. A few tiny stains to photograph, which is otherwise fine. $1,500. A rare photographic record of the Robert H. Terrell Law School, an important historically Black institution established in Washington, DC, in 1931 after Howard University discontinued its evening law program. Named for Robert Heberton Terrell [1857-1925], a pioneering African American jurist and judge of the District of Columbia Municipal Court, the coeducational school provided opportunities for legal education to Black students during an era of widespread racial discrimination. Its graduates went on to careers in law, government and public service. Produced by the celebrated Scurlock Studio, one of Washington's foremost African American photographic establishments, this composite portrait depicts the school's founder and dean, George Arthur Parker, together with its six graduates of 1944, including one woman. The unusually small graduating class reflects the wartime circumstances affecting American legal education. The photograph is also a notable example of the work of the Scurlock Studio, which documented Washington's African American professional, political and cultural communities for much of the twentieth century. Of particular interest is the family connection to the desegregation of American legal education. Elwin Franklin Jarmon, Jr., son of the graduate pictured at lower left, was among the first six African American students admitted to the University of Texas School of Law in 1950, following the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629 (1950). That decision, rejecting the adequacy of segregated legal education in Texas, was an important precursor to Brown v. Board of Education (1954). The portrait thus offers a connection between two generations of African American legal education and the strugg. Washington, DC: Scurlock Studio, [1944]. (ilustrador).…