Search Results: Authors starting with H from Langdon Manor Books LLC

Houston, Texas, 1911. Very good. Black and white photograph measuring 5" x 7" on 8" x 10" cardboard mount. Very good photograph on good mount: a few small stains to photo, corner wear to mount; inked notations on photo and verso. This photograph combines the work of a Texas-based African American photographer with documentation of a nearly forgotten segregated school in Houston as well as its principal. The photo depicts 28 students of the 7th grade class of Houston's Langston School (also known as "Langston Grade School" and "Langston Col*red School") along with a man we presumed to be a teacher. Thanks to an inscription on the verso, "7th Grade/W.J. Smith," we were able to extrapolate the name of the school and that the man seated in the front row, W.J. Smith, was the school's principal in addition to teaching 7th grade. We learned a bit about the school and W.J. Smith from contemporary newspaper accounts. Langston was located at 2309 German Street and as of 1904 the school had ten rooms and… Read More

Detroit, Michigan: Black Political Review, 1966. Very good. 11" x 8½". Stapled wrappers. pp. 28 + laid in leaf. Very good: top staple loosening, wrappers lightly dust soiled, moderate edge wear; laid in sheet with numerous small tears at right edge. This is the first issue of a periodical which documents a short-lived political movement by a young man who later married the author, Gayl Jones. Over time, he went insane and made nationwide news in 1998 when an article about Jones' latest book led to a standoff with police and his suicide. The founder of the movement, Robert C. Higgins, was born in Cleveland in 1947, abandoned at a young age by his mother, and raised by relatives and foster families in Detroit. One foster family was that of George Breitman, a strong supporter of Black nationalism, who was also a strong influence on Higgins. At the age of 19 Higgins founded an organization on the Wayne State campus called the "Black Political Study Group" ("BPSG"). According to a 1998 New York Times… Read More

[Maplewood, New Jersey]: Scholastic Magazines, 1969. Very good -. 30¼" x 43¾", folds to 7½" x 11". Two-sided poster. Very good minus: ex-library, with a stamp and label; remnants of adhesive at edges in four spots; 1" tear at an intersection not affecting any text; lightly dust-soiled. This is a large educational poster with one side devoted to a heavily illustrated timeline of African American history with text written by an accomplished African American professor, Norman Hodges. According to the poster, Hodges was teaching at Hampton Institute as of the date of issuance. According to a flyer for a Hodges talk that we located online in the massive FBI file on Malcom X that was declassified in December 1983, Hodges grew up in Michigan and was an alumnus of Fisk University, the London School of Economics, Yale, and Columbia. He received his doctorate in African Studies from Columbia and around the time the poster was issued, Hodges accepted a position at Vassar where he ultimately became the… Read More