Black Studies from Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art

Catonsville, Maryland: University of Maryland Baltimore County Library, 1982. 16 pages. Catalog for an 1982 exhibition in the Gallery of the University of Maryland Baltimore County Library. The exhibition included 50 photographs illustrating Black labor in the united states from Reconstruction to 1980. Twelve of the photographs are pictured in the catalog. Laid in is an… Read more about this item

New York: New York Times, 1968. Lewis Steel was a lawyer for the NAACP when he wrote this article for The New York Times Magazine in 1968. In the article he challenged the traditional view of the Supreme Court as a liberationist institution, arguing that it "was a white court which would protect the interests of white America… Read more about this item

Macon, Georgia: The J. W. Burke Company, 1928. 52 pages. 12mo (7" X 5 1/4"). Staple-bound pamphlet in red pictorial wraps. First edition. Collection of 3 short stories originally written for publication in magazines in Century Magazine. Evelyn Magruder De Jarnette (1841-1902) was the wife of a slaveholder who lived on at "Pine Forest," a… Read more about this item

Farmville, Virginia: The Farmville Herald, 1960. 29 pages. 8vo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Second printing. A very biased account of the events in Prince Edward County when the county closed all public schools and raised money to start a private school that excluded black students--all to avoid desegregation. There were three small printings, but it is still… Read more about this item

New York: Harper's Weekly, 1865. Slavery Abolished in the United States! 16 pages. Large folio (16 inches by 11 1/4 inches). Original complete issue of Harper's Weekly. Harper's Weekly was the most important American pictorial newspaper in the 19th century. Because the original wood engravings in virtually every issue are highly collectible, complete issues… Read more about this item

Piney Woods, Mississippi: Laurence C. Jones, 1922. Original sheet music. Lyrics by Raymond A. Browne (1871-1922). Published by Laurence C. Jones (whose picture is on the front cover), the founder and principal of The Piney Woods Country Life School, Piney Woods, Mississippi. The school is still operating and is one of 4 historically African-American boarding schools for high school students.… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1964. xx, 222 pages. First printing. Originally written as the author's PhD dissertation, the book "reports and analyzes related events and reactions in Virginia from the time of the Supreme Court decison [Brown v. Board of Education] in 1954 to the enactment by the state's General Assembly of massive resistance… Read more about this item

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1961. (8), 184 pages. First printing. A chronological account of the efforts of Virginia government officials to thwart the U. S. Supreme Court's 1954 decision outlawing racial segregation in public schools. The book is clean and tight, with just a hint of toning of pages. The dust jacket is clean and… Read more about this item

Whittier, California: Paul G. Partington, 1989. 74 pages. A useful bibliography with annotations for many entries. The book is clean and tight, with minimal edgewear. Note: pages 11 and 12 are bound in upside down.. Revised Edition. Paperback. Collectible-Very Good +. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Washington D. C.: National Press Books, 1992. 285 pages. The first printing of James Earl Ray's self-serving version of the assassination of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. Boldly signed by Ray, without inscription, on the half-title page: "James Earl Ray April 1993." The signature is guaranteed to be authentic, and a COA is available,… Read more about this item