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Steps to Break the Circle & Half Black Half Blacker by Sterling Plump – Poet b.1940

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs-author

Quincey Troupe poet, educator, writer Born July 22, 1939, in St. Louis, Missouri,

I Paid My Dues- Good Times… No Bread…. A Story of Jazz…. by Babs Gonzales -author

LAYING DOWN MY BURDENS By Brenda L. Thomas -author

Black Thoughts by Lillie Mae Carter 1931 -2004 African-American

Our Life May 1954 Vol 1 #2 Rev. Henry Armstrong author

Ruby Primus Frazier RUBY’S BLACK EMERALDS 1971 Black Arts Movement Poetry

Jeremy Randolph POEMS II 1st ed 1971 Black Arts Movement Poetry, Texas Author

Fulani SECOND THE EMOTION 1974 Black Arts Movement Poetry Brooklyn

Dorothy June Watkins THOUGHTS & THINGS Dallas 1976 Black Arts Movement Poetry

Lloyd Addison The Aura & The Umbra – poetry

George Barlow GABRIEL 1974 – POET

Douglas Turner Ward1930 – 2021) was an American playwright, actor, director, and theatrical producer.

Howard Odum – Rainbow Round My Shoulder 1928 Author

Hal Woodrum African American

Woodward African American Black Poetry Poems Love Songs and New Spirituals 1980

BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER- HISTORY OF NEGRO IN AMERICA 1619-1964 BY LERONE BENNETT,JR

Mary Frances Berry (born February 17, 1938) is an American historian, writer, lawyer, activist

SENEGAMBIAN SIZZLES NEGRO STORIES BY E V WHITE SIGNED 1948 African American

tozake Shange ( EN-toh-ZAH-kee SHAHNG-gay; October 18, 1948 – October 27, 2018) was an American playwright and poet.

February 9, 1944 (age 79), Alice Walker African American

BIRTHRIGHT, by T.S. Stribling – 1922 Black Americana Civil Rights Racial Issues

1938- LiL Hannibal- Hardbound-Children’s Book by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

THE BOOK OF AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY – 1959

The New Negro Alain Locke 1927 -3

The New Negro Alain Locke 1927

What the Negro Thinks, by Robert Russa Moton 1929

Woodward African American Black Poetry Poems Love Songs and New Spirituals 1980 page

Race Relations Racism African Americans Social Conditions Color Blind DJ 1946 Halsey African American

Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion – Herbert Aptheker 1968

My Great Wide Beautiful World – Juanita Harrison 1936 HC African American

MISS MINERVA CHILDRENS-1930s-ERA BOOKS

Mannie Brown and Edward Kennedy by Mildred Rutherford, 1896, African American

JOHNSON, JAMES WELDON (1871-1938) The Second Book of Negro Spirituals 1926

Howard Washington Thurman ( 1899 – 1981) was an American author,

Arthur Talmage Abernethy ( 1872 –1956) was a writer, theologian, and poet. African American

African Americans John Henry Play Roark Bradford 1st 1939

African Americans John Henry Play Roark Bradford 1st 1939

The Man Who Cried I Am -John Williams African American

Lesile Lacy- Native Daughter -African American Author

John Henry Guy B. Johnson (1901 – 1991) was an American sociologist and social anthropologist. African American

Alexander Gifford or Vilets’s Boy A Story of Negro Life Rev Henry Merrill 1905 African American

African American Music Spirituals -Hansonia Caldwell African American

Bell Hooks – African American

DANGEROUS LIAISONS- SEX AND LOVE IN THE SEGREGATED SOUTH By Robinson Charles F. African American author

Edythe Mae Gordon (ca. 1897–1980) was an African-American writer of short stories and poetry during the era of the Harlem Renaissance

Mary Elizabeth Jones Parrish (1892–1972) African American author

MRS. AMANDA SMITH The Colored Evangelist African American 1893

MRS. AMANDA SMITH The Colored Evangelist African American 1893 2

MRS. AMANDA SMITH The Colored Evangelist African American 1893 -3

MRS. AMANDA SMITH The Colored Evangelist African American 1893 4

Mrs. Ophelia Settle Egypt Fisk University Researcher

Paul Dunbar Erlong – Black African American Prose Vintage 190

Raymond Andrews – Baby Sweets – 1983 African American

Jerry Pinkney 2

NOTES OF A-NATIVE SON-GIOVANNIS-ROOM- by JAMES BALDWIN

Henry Dumas (July 20, 1934 – May 23, 1968) was an American writer and poet.

1976 African American Woman Response Susan Brownmiller Black Americana Book

African American Woman Response Susan Brownmiller Black Americana Book 3

African American Woman Response Susan Brownmiller Black Americana Book 2

Calvin C Hernton – Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers Adventures in Sex African American

1848 THE PRISON BARD OR POEMS WRITTEN IN JAIL GEORGE THOMPSON AID SLAVES FREEDOM African American

American Biologists Black Apollo of Science Ernest Everett Just 2

BLACK RECONSTRUCTION IN AMERICA By W. E. B. Dubois

PLES STERLING STUCKEY, JR. (1932-2018) African American Author Professor

Robert Penn Warren–Segregation- Inner Conflict in the South- 1956

The Black Woman- An Anthology-Ed. Toni Cade- 2

The Black Woman- An Anthology- Ed. Toni Cade

To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Lorraine Hansberry

GONE FISHIN, 1997, Walter Mosley

Charles V. Hamilton-THE BLACK PREACHER IN AMERICA (1972)- African American

1940 Negro Mason United States

he SEEKING, 1953, Will Thomas ,Black Americana

Riding Jane Crow- African American Women on the American Railroad by Miriam Thaggert

1917 CHRISTMAS NIGHT IN THE QUARTERS-Irwin Russell-MISSISSIPPI – African American

1917 CHRISTMAS NIGHT IN THE QUARTERS-Irwin Russell-MISSISSIPPI – African American

Guide to Truth by Pearl Cleage

SOJOURNING FOR FREEDOM- BLACK WOMEN, AMERICAN COMMUNISM, By Erik S. Mcduffie

BLACK BOLSHEVIK Harry Haywood 1978 RADICAL African American SOCIALIST REBEL

BLACK BOLSHEVIK Harry Haywood 1978 RADICAL African American SOCIALIST REBEL 2

AFRICAN AMERICAN BLACK NATIONALIST REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRICA POETRY STERLING X 2

Sterling X Poet b 1952

1903 ANNE HOBSON -IN OLD ALABAMA- AFRICAN AMERICAN

Gulf Stream Marie Stanley (Sheip) Black Americana Rare Book 1930

PHOTONOVEL -The Crowning Experience-1960 MURIEL SMITH black American educator

NIMBO THE STORY OF AN AFRICAN BOY

Growing Up in the Black Belt Negro Youth in the Rural Charles S Johnson 1941

Growing Up in the Black Belt Negro Youth in the Rural Charles S Johnson 1941

African American Author Manuscript Leslie Pinckney Hill Harlem Renaissance HBCU 2

African American Author Manuscript Leslie Pinckney Hill Harlem Renaissance HBCU

1938 Negro American Series – Book 1 Boys & Girls, Book 3

1938 Negro American Series – Book 1 Boys & Girls, Book 2-

1938 Negro American Series – Book 1 Boys & Girls, Book 2-

(1912–1948). Karl E. Downs, Black minister and college president

Jackson Blyden Jackson (October 12, 1910 – 2000) was a Black American academic, essayist, and activist. The Grandson of Slaves,

ella Larsen (first called Nellie Walker) (1891-1964) was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance

Ocania Chalk, BLACK COLLEGE SPORT Author

Elizabeth Clark-Lewis – African American historian. Howard University

1973 400 Years Without A Comb, African-American Hair, Willie Morrie

1973 400 Years Without A Comb, African-American Hair, Willie Morrie

THE REAL MCCOY- THE LIFE OF AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTOR

NEW WORLD A-COMING- Inside Black America – Roi Ottley – 1943 – Harlem

NEW WORLD A-COMING – Inside Black America – Roi Ottley – 1943 – Harlem 2

Vigilance – The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad

HARLEM RENAISSANCE By Nathan Irvin Huggins

Tom Skinner 1968 Very Rare

AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVE REVOLTS IN THE UNITED STATES (NEW By Herbert Aptheker

YOU MAY PLOW HERE – THE NARRATIVE OF SARA BROOKS

THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM- A HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS, By Clayborne Carson b.1944

1905 African American Slave Dialect PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

CAT EYES AND DEAD WOOD – MELBA JOYCE BOYD 1978 – Black Poetry African American

Popular Fronts – Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-46,

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

I Freed Myself – African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era

VOICES FROM THE NEGRO LEAGUES= CONVERSATIONS WITH 52 By Brent Kelley

THE UPWARD CLIMB -BY SARA ESTELLE HASKIN AFRICAN AMERICAN 1927

The Negro in Colonial New England-1620-1776 by Lorenzo Johnston Greene Lorenzo Johnston Greene (1899–1988)

PINEY WOODS & Its STORY, 1922, Lawrence C. Jones,

PINEY WOODS & Its STORY, 1922, Lawrence C. Jones, 2

David Bradley THE CHANEYSVILLE INCIDENT. b.1950 African Amrican

Pearl Cleage Author b.1948

HE NEGRO IN THE CIVIL WAR, 1st Ed, 1953 Benjamin Quarles African American author

Charity Adams Earley – ONE WOMAN’S ARMY

AMERICA’S FIRST NEGRO POET THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JUPITER HAMMON

1973 book 400 Years Without A Comb, African-American Hair, Willie Morrie 2

Walter E FAUNTROY -AFRICAN-AMERICANA The Black Leadership Family Plan –

The Women Who Caught the Babies

HE BOOK OF NEGRO HUMOR by Langston Hughes, 1966

The Betrayal of the Negro by Dr. Rayford W. Logan 1965

Black Metropolis -A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City – Chicago (1945, African Authors

I am the American Negro FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS 1937

Who Look at Me by June Jordan 1969 Paintings Poetry 3

Who Look at Me by June Jordan 1969 Paintings Poetry

1958 -The-Lonesome Road Story of The Negros Part in America by-Saunders Redding.

1974 Ron Milner African-American Playwright –

FOR MY PEOPLE by MARGARET WALKER, AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY, 2

Charles H WESLEY – Neglected History Essays in Negro-American History 1965

Barbara Wilson Tinker – When The Fire Reaches Us 1970

Banjo Talks Anne V Culbertson 1905 Early African American

Former Negro ex-Slaves tell what slavery was Like -Lay my Burden Down- 1948

Lou Dials -LIFE IN BASEBALLS NEGRO LEAGUES

Soul in Ice Eldridge Cleaver b. 1938

AFRICAN AMERICAN JAMES WELDON JOHNSON 1940

Walter Williams, Caged Bird African American b.1928-1990

AFRICAN AMERICAN S POET OWEN DODSON

DISCIPLINING WOMEN- ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA, BLACK By Deborah Elizabeth Whaley

ADA is a book chronicling the life style of 84 years (1895-1979) of a Black woman

1959 Woodson & Wesley THE STORY OF THE … RETOLD

Clarence Major-SWALLOW THE LAKE (1970)- African American Poet

Ivar Dixon actor

1840 MEMOIRS OF ELLEANOR ELDRIDGE, a Free Black + Native American Woman

Lloyd A. Barbee Civil rights leader and legislator African American author

THE PASSION OF THE LORD AFRICAN AMERICAN REFLECTIONS By James A. Noel

Trudier Harriss, educator, historian born 1948 African American

One Life- The Autobiography of an African American Actress by Holly, Ellen

Pernet Patterson ROAD TO CANAAN 1st 1931 ed

Robert Russa Moton (1867–1940) author educator

Sam-Cornish-My-Daddy’s People Were Very Dark 1976 Poetry

Stylin”- AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

1964 A Crown for Thomas Peters 1st Ed.-Slavery to Leadership-Biographical African American

Amiri Baraka -ITS NATION TIME- 1970 BLACK POETRY

Clarence Muse (October 14, 1889 – October 13, 1979) was an actor, screenwriter, director, composer, and lawyer.

Silas Jones PRICE OF DIRT 1st ed 1974 African-American Memoir,

David Wadsworth CANNON, Jr – Black Labor Chant and Other Poems 1st Edition 1939- 2

Oscar Micheaux Author

Earl Cash-JOHN A. WILLIAMS- EVOLUTION OF A BLACK WRITER-

BOOK SIGNED ROI OTTLEY CHICAGO HARLEM

OSSIE – THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BLACK WOMAN – By Ossie Guffy

Gooseberry Jones, Will Gerber 1947

When Daddy Was a Boy Thomas Wood Parry 1917

avid Wadsworth CANNON, Jr – Black Labor Chant 1939

The Outsider by Richard Wright

The Outsider by Richard Wright

George W. WILLIAMS, (1849-1891). History of the Negro Race .

LUCY TERRY b 1730 poet storyteller former African slave

Ann Perry -Author

Joyce Carol Thomas -BittBELABORED PROFESSIONS – NARRATIVES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN By Xiomara Santamarinaersweet- 1973 African American Poetry

Harold Carrington- Poet-Drive-Suite.

African American Author book Leslie Pinckney Hill Harlem Renaissance

BELABORED PROFESSIONS – NARRATIVES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN By Xiomara Santamarina

Phyllis Wheatley

African American Author Leslie Pinckney Hill b1880-1960 Harlem Renaissance

Black Bourgeoisie Rise of a New Middle Class E Franklin Frazier African Am 1965

Chet Fuller (1950 – 2022) – Atlanta, GA Poet Author

Everett Hoagland b.1942 Poet Pof. Dartmouth

We Are Rising- poem 2

We Are Rising- poem 1

Jet Magazine author Mary Vroman

Samuel James Cornish- b.1935-2018-first poet laureate. African American- Boston

Le Roi Jones – Preface To A Twenty Volume Suicide Note First Edition 1961

1978 HURT COMES & GOES -Poetry of a Black American Woman- JERRI ALEXANDER

Julius Lester Author

Eugene B. Redmond (born December 1, 1937, St. Louis) is an American poet, and academic.

Countee Cullen letter

Harlem Book of The Dead James Van Der Zee 2

Harlem Book of The Dead James Van Der Zee

Eric Derwent Walrond was an Afro-Caribbean Harlem Renaissance writer and journalist

Ishmael Reed – MUMBO JUMBO – 1972 Postmodern Classic

CHARLES W. CHESNUTT African American Author & Activist DEATH 1932

Anne Petry Author -The Street- 1946

1931 LELAND HALL SALAH PROSE BOOK NOVEL

Richard Wright- Author

The Goddam White Man 1960 David Lytton African American

Landmarks in African American History – book cover

CLAUDE MCKAY, REBEL SOJOURNER IN THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Frank Yerby author Foxes of Harrow 1946

1920 African American Black Literature Poetry 3

John Hope Franklin Historian 1940-1999

Jessie Redmon Fauset Poet 1929-1958

Francis Ellen Watkins Harper Poet

Richard Wright

1948 Poets

1948 Black Americana Negro Poetry Anthology 2

A Spirit filled Life 1908

Rev George Rowe Poet 1853-1903

List of Negro Poets 1947 1

List of Negro Poets 2 1947

List of Negro Poets 3 1!947

Poets 1

George_Rowe_1890 poet 1

African Violet- Poem for a Black Woman by James C. Kilgore 1983

This Side of Jordan Roark Bradford Harpers 1929 African American South

RICO-LEBRUN-FOR-COLOR-PATRONS-5-RACISM-IN-AMERICA-AFRICAN-AMERICAN-

BEAUFORD DELANEY A Retrospective studio Museum In Harlem

African Violet- Poem for a Black Woman by James C. Kilgore 2

Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance

Nella Larsen – Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance

THE TEACHINGS-DRAWN FROM AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPIRITUALS By Aminah Brenda

EARLG

AMY JACQUES GARVEY – SELECTED WRITINGS FROM THE NEGRO

1920 Poet Wendell Phillips Gladden

African American Woman Poet~Suffrage~Gertrude Bustill Mossell

CLAUDE MCKAY, REBEL SOJOURNER IN THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Female Artist

Sculptor Edmonia Lewis

Milt Simons African American Artist 1953 – Old Man

Lois Malou Jones artist

Black designer Zelda Wynn Valdes

Augusta Savage – Writer

1946 AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR 1946 SCARCE CHANCELLOR WILLIAMS 2 (1)

AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR 1946 SCARCE CHANCELLOR WILLIAMS

Lillian Fitzgerald- Singer Comedian

Painter Laura Wheeler Waring, noted for her portraits and illustrations – New York Amsterdam 1923

J.A. Rogers Author 100 Amazing Facts Aboutt the Negro

ROI OTTLEY 2

ROI OTTLEY author 1943

12 things Negroes must do 1

12 Things # 9 and 10

12 Things # 8

12 Things #6 and 7

12 Things # 3

12 Things #1

Nannie Burroughs 1940-1950’s ddied 1961

Amy Jacques Garvey – Selected Writings from The Negro World, 1923-1928

AFRICAN AMERICAN FIRST PULITZER TYPED POEM SIGNED GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Callie House (1861 – 1928) was a leader of the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association,

Political activist 1920-30’s

Woodson Carter Godwin-Mis-Education Of The Negro 1933

1948 Black Americana Negro Poetry Anthology Book Ebony Rhythm 3

1948 Black Americana Negro Poetry Anthology Book Ebony Rhythm 2

1948 Black Americana Negro Poetry Anthology Book Ebony Rhythm 1

Gwedolyn Bennett Author

Photographer James Van Der Zee

WILLIAM GRANT STILL 1949 AFRICAN AMERICAN COMPOSER

Dean Dixon,African American conductor,symphonic orchestras,New York,NY,1935

Black Women Writers at Work by Tate

AMERICAN NEGRO SHORT STORIES WRITERS

activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915-1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual,

1941 John Atkinson WPA African-American Artist

ARNA BONTEMPS Poet 1939

Joggin’ Erlong Paul Laurence Dunbar 1906 1st edition African-American Poet Book 2

Joggin’ Erlong Paul Laurence Dunbar 1906 1st edition African-American Poet Book

James Amos Porter,1905-70,African American Art History

African American Poetry Whence Waters Flow by Alice Merritt Richmond 1948

Brunners- Watercolor painting

Alexander Dumas and Family Authors

Pinkie Gordon Lane. African-American Poet

Negro American Heritage Paul Lawrence & Florence Randall

Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce only African-American writer willing to clearly pronounce his homosexuality in print.

Jessie Redmon Fauset was an African-American editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her literary work helped sculpt African-American literature in the 1920s

Owen Dodson 1951

Sculptor Edmonia Lewis

Seven Afro-American artists of the Delaware Valley Reba Dickerson Hill, (image) Paul Keene, Humbert Howard, Charles Searles, Louis B. Sloan, Andrew Turner, Ellen Powell Tiberino,

W.E.B Du Bois by Winold Reiss

AFRICAN AMERICAN FARMER Sawyer

Jennifer Anderson African American Moscow Girl Dawn Painting

ROBERT JOHNSON PRINT King of the delta blues Mississippi (

Syracuse University Tribute to Elton Fax 4

Syracuse University Tribute to Elton Fax 3

Syracuse University Tribute to Elton Fax 2

Syracuse University Tribute to Elton Fax

The Art Of The Illustrator 1918- Warwick Reynolds

PAINTING 1945 BY ELTON FAX African American Artist (

ithograph by African American Artist B S G Men In Rowboats (

1946 CHANCELLOR WILLIAMS SIGNED AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR I WERE WHITE

Al Young 81 Obituary New York Times California Author Poet Negro History

Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson, Distinguished Black author, editor, publisher, and historian, recognized for his role in establishing Black History Month.

Forty Cords of Wood ~ J. EDWARD PERRY ~ First Edition 1st 1947

1955 ORIGINAL AUGUSTA BRAXSTON BAKER AUTHOR MANHATTAN NY

Charles White Mother 1945

Every Tongue Got to Confess Negro Folk-Tale Zora Neale Hurston (

Their Eyes Were Watching GodZora Neale Hurston 1937

Beulah Richardson A Black Woman Speaks…Of White Womanhood… 1957

DOROTHY WEST – Harlem Renaissance – novelist, short story writer

Nella Larson “Passing”

Anne Spenser

1946 CHANCELLOR WILLIAMS SIGNED AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR I WERE WHITE

Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson From the New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights

Morita Bonner

Fay M. Jackson

Nella Larson

Grimke

Clarissa Thompson

Clarissa Thompson

Josephine Turpin Washington

Josephine Turpin Washington

Josephine Silone-Yates

Josephine Silone-Yates

Anne Julia Cooper

Anne Julia Cooper

Amelia Johnson

Amelia Johnson

Francis Harper

Toni Morrison

Paul Lawrence Dunbar,1872-1906,African American Poet

James Amos Porter,1905-70 Art Historian

BECKY Julia Wilson John Wilson 1

BECKY Julia Wilson John Wilson 2

NATIVE SON – Richard Wright

Hughes, Langston The Weary Blues

Black Boy Richard Wright book art

Ann Allen Shockley AFRO-AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS 1846-1933 book art

1949 Florence Murray Black Author

Ebony 1945’s Campbell’s Comics

Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks African-American Poet Pulitzer Prize 1949

1956 VINTAGE NEW CROSS AFIRE IN DIXIE JAMES DESMOND (

‘Crossin’ Over’ Leland – South Carolina, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY- 193

God’s Trombones 7 Negro Sermons in Verse J W Johnson

Carl Latimer ( African-American 1924) Yellow Green composition.

James Van Der Zee Postcards TAP DANCER & BOX OF CANDY

ames Van Der Zee Postcards TAP DANCER & BOX OF CANDY

Clement Richer Author

WILLARD MOTLEY SIGNED BOOK AFRICAN AMERICAN CHICAGO DEFENDER HULL HOUSE FOUNDER (2)

Langston Hughes Black Misery

NEW NEGRO ARTISTS IN PARIS

EDWARD B WEBSTER 1958 AFRICAN AMERICAN PRIMITIVE ARTIST & ART PICTORIAL NATIVITY

Ed Arna Bontemps Anthology of Negro Poets LP Record 1st Edition 1954

Samuel Brown African American Artist 2

W E B Du Bois Vintage Nation Magazine Black 2Americana Election Socialist 1956 2 (2)

W E B Du Bois Vintage Nation Magazine Black Americana Election Socialist 1956 1 (1

Aaron Douglas,1899-1979,African American Painter

James Richmond Barthe,1901-89,African American sculptor

Hall Johnson,1888-1970,African American composer

Allen Locke

Allien Lock Author

Jackie Olmas cartoonist

Black Cat Club JD Corrothers Illustrated Black Humor

Black Cat Club JD Corrothers 2

Black Cat Club JD Corrothers 1 (

James Whitehead – Poet

Robert Nathaniel Dett,1882-1943,African composer

Richard Wright ‘Black Power’

James Baldwin – ‘The Fire Next Time’

100 BLACK HISTORY BULLETINS PROGRAMS BLANK ALEXANDER Anna J. Cooper

1935 Count Basie Jazz Music -Morgan Monceaux

1935 Lester Young Jazz Music Morgan Monceaux (

1925 Paul Colin-‘ The Jazz Orchestra of Josephine Baker’

Eliazor Cortor

Aaron Douglas 1935

1935 AAron Douglas

Mid Century Lithograph Sight of Sound 1955 by Dysart

‘The Black Tumult’ Paul Colin 1925

‘The Ascent of Ethiopia’ 1932 Lois Malou Jones

MARGARET BURROUGHS ‘Cotton Pickers’ 1953

‘Joséphine Baker’ 1925 Paul Colin

Poets 2

1954 Impressionist Painting by E. Stanley Turnbull (

HARLEM RENAISSANCE AUTOGRAPH JAMES VAN DER ZEE ADVERT (

Father of Black History

Lorraine Hansberry SAuthor

Poets 8

Poets 7

Poets 6

Poets 5

Poets 4

TOAST TO WOMEN Rembrandt van Rijn ~ BLACK CAT PRESS CHAPBOOK

1945 Etude Magazine Negro Composers

Oregon Federation of Colored Women Hymnal ~ James Weldon Johnson

Zelda Ormes- Artist, Writer

Ralph Ellison – The Invisible Man 1952 – Author

Nathan Irvin Huggins – Black Odyssey – 1977 Harlem Renaissance author

Jet Mag. writer 1955 Mary Vroman

A Former Slave Family Autobiography by L.C.W. African American

Norman Wilfred Lewis (1909 – 1979) American painter, scholar, and teacher

Bell Hooks – Africn Americn

Matanah- BITS & PIECES 1974 Black Arts Movement Women’s Poetry

Warrior Poet- A Biography of Audre Lorde

Where the Jazz Band Plays – The Weary Blues – Poetry by Langston Hughes

Mississippi Backroads of My Memory author

Elizabeth Keckley’s Autobiography Lincoln’s friend

Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson –

Angelina Weld Grimke

Fay M. Jackson Pioneering African-American Journalist

Gwendolyn Bennett African American Poet

Horace Mungin – Now See Here Homes – Black Contemporary Poetry – 1st ed 1969 -2

Poetry Dialect Verse Dunbar Cabin Field- 1908

Poems From Prison, Etheridge Knight, 1970,

Passing Swallowed in Quicksand 1920s Harlem Jazz Culture

Jamila-Ra & Stephen Thomas-PROMO POSTER FOR THE GOOD BOOK-1971-BLACK ARTS POETRY

Jacques Goode RAW MILK 1st ed 1972 Black Arts Movement Poetry Harlem

Harlem Gallery and Other Poems of Melvin B. Tolson

The Picture-Poetry Book by Gertrude Parthenia McBrown 194

Mattie Griffith Autobiography of a Female Slave author

Leslie Lacy. – Native Daughter- Author

Harlem Princess by Ruth B. Harris author

William Gardner Smith 1927 – 1974) was American journalist, novelist, and editor.

African American Yvonne Wells Proverbs – ‘Invictus’ Quilt

ALBERT MURRAY—South to a Very Old Place author

PRINCE OF PEACE- A MEMOIR ATTORNEY, By Prince Chambliss author

T. Thomas Fortune’s thought and activism during age of Jim Crow

African American Poets, & Autobiographical Authors Born Before 1950