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1953
Marshall, Thurgood (1908-1993)
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education [In: "Brief for Appellants...."]
Case printed in "brief for appellants...in Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1953."
GLC07726
1954/05/17
Warren, Earl (1891-1974)
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education. Inscribed to Peter H. Brandt.
The Supreme Court's Decision declaring segregated schools unconstitutional.
GLC07940
1958
King, Martin Luther Jr. (1929-1968)
Stride toward freedom: the Montgomery story
Published by Harper & Brothers. Inscribed to Miss Charlotte Rosenbaum, a supporter, on the first flyleaf. Inscription states "In appreciation for your genuine humanitarian concern, and your great financial and moral support in the struggle to...
GLC03025
United States. Supreme Court 1950-1960
[Supplemental brief from the United States Supreme Court regarding Brown v. Board of Education]
Brief prepared on behalf of the United States for reargument by Attorney General Herbert Brownell, J. Lee Rankin, Philip Elman, and other attorneys at the Justice Department. Devoted to information regarding the case of Oliver Brown, et. al. v...
GLC05160
January 1949
The Howard Players
The Howard Players Present The Beautiful People by William Saroyan
The Program for the Howard Players Production of "The Beautiful People" by William Saroyan. First page is a title page. Second page gives the cast list and setting. Third page gives reviews of the play and production staff. Fourth page is blank.
GLC09587.259.01
8 June 1952
Howard University
Baccalaureate Service
Program for the Baccalaureate Service for Howard University. First page is a title page. Third page is the schedule of events. Second and fourth pages are blank.
GLC09587.264
23 March 1976
Electrophoretic Characterization of Selected Isozymes Among Inbred Substrains of Mus Musculus.
Full title: "Electrophortic Characterization of Selected Isozymes Among Inbred Substrains of Mus Musculus: An Abstract Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Howard University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of...
GLC09587.265
1947
The National Urban League
Negro Heroes. [No. 1]
Issue number one of the comic book called Negro Heroes. This comic features biographies of famous and influential African Americans. The people featured in this issue are, George Washington Carver, Mary McLeod Bethune, Paul Robeson, Matt Henson...
GLC09639.01
1948
Negro Heroes. [No. 2]
Issue number two of the comic book called Negro Heroes. This comic features biographies of famous and influential African Americans. This issue is also called the summer issue. The people featured in this issue are, Booker T. Washington, the men of...
GLC09639.02
1971
Horsmanden, Daniel (1694-1778)
The New York conspiracy... with an introduction by Thomas J. Davis [reprint]
Paperback reprint by Beacon Press of Horsmanden's "A Journal of the Proceedings in the Detection of the Conspiracy formed by some White People in conjunction with Negro and other Slaves, for burning the City of New-York...."
GLC04205.02
1960
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
The Cooper Union Address given by Abraham Lincoln in the Great Hall of The Cooper Union in New York February 27, 1860
With an introduction written by Leroy H. Buckingham, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English, The Cooper Union. Published by The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, 1960. Buckingham's introduction discusses Lincoln's political...
GLC04471.09
Stride Toward Freedom
Inscribed to Fr. Tom Thrasher of Montgomery. Thrasher was an Episcopal priest who joined with King in seeking Civil Rights: "In appreciation for your genuine goodwill, your true Christian spirit, your dedication to the Christian ideal of the...
GLC05508.158
1946
Graham, Lorenz (1902-1989)
How God Fix Jonah
Published by Reynal & Hitchcock. Illustrated with prints from wood engravings by Letterio Calapai, an American painter, muralist, and printmaker. Signed by Graham on the dedication page; dedicated to Graham's sister Shirley Graham Du Bois, an...
GLC06121
30 September 1962
Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)
Fight for freedom: the story of the NAACP
Published by W. W. Norton & Company. Signed on the front flyleaf by Hughes, who inscribed the copy to Raymond Johnson. Signed and inscribed 30 September 1962 on the inner back cover by Evangeline Upshur Truman in Little Rock, Arkansas. Foreword...
GLC06123
March 1948
Coles, Howard Wilson (1903-1996)
Frederick Douglass monthly. [Vol. 1, no.1 (March 1948)]
Published by Voice Publishing Co. Contains reprint of Douglass's "Men of Color, to Arms" from the 2 March 1863 printing: "This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it and forever wipe out the dark reproaches unsparingly hurled against us by our...
GLC05822
1964
[Why we can't wait, inscribed to Libby Holman Reynolds Shanker]
Published by Harper and Row. Inscription to Shanker, a singer and activist, states "To my Friend ... In appreciation for your genuine goodwill, your great humanitarian concern and your unswerving devotion to the cause of freedom and justice."...
GLC05824
Owens, William A. (1905- )
Slave Mutiny: the Revolt on the Schooner Amistad
Published by John Day Company. First edition. Comprises a dramatic retelling of the Amistad narrative, based on factual events of the mutiny and trial.
GLC05835
1963
Howard, Warren S. (fl. 1963)
American Slavers and the Federal Law: 1837-1862
Published by University of California Press. Discusses the illegal slave trade violated "mostly by Americans helping foreigners to carry slaves into Cuba or Brazil... also by Americans smuggling slaves into the states of the deep South."
GLC05879
1966
Johnson, Frances B. (fl. 1966)
Hampton Institute Album [exhibition catalog]
"44 photographs...from an album of the Hampton Institute." Black and white exhibition catalog from the New York Museum of Modern Art. Collateral to Hampton Institute photographs.
GLC07444
1951
Jefferson, Isaac (b. 1775)
Memoirs of a Monticello slave as dictated to Charles Campbell in the 1840's...
By Issac, one of Thomas Jefferson's Slaves. Modern edition.
GLC07445
1975
Haven Memorial United Methodist Church
Sixty-Second Anniversary Church Booklet of Haven Memorial United Methodist Church.
One souvenir booklet printed by the Haven Memorial United Methodist Church commemorating their 62nd anniversary from 1931-1975. Item contains the church's history, messages from the bishop and minister, memoriams, photos of church members, messages...
GLC09641.08
National Putnam Letters Committee
The Evers Opinion
One pamphlet dated 1964 entitled "The Evers Opinion" regarding the disadvantages of racial integration in U.S. schools. The author argues that "Brown v. Board of Education" had holes in the decision which they found to be unconstitutional.
GLC09641.18
1955
Leflar, Robert
What the Supreme Court Said...
One pamphlet printed by the Southern Regional Council in 1955 on the school segregation decision by Robert A . Leflar. The publication includes an analysis of the Supreme Court decision which diverged from the position that NAACP counsel and...
GLC09641.25
9 February 1950
United Negro College Fund
a part of the American harvest
This fundraising pamphlet for the United Negro College Fund is for ten percent of the educational budget of 1950. The projected budge to raise was $1.4 million. The inside of the brochure summarizes the number and types of professions financed by...
GLC09641.29
1959
Record, C. Wilson (fl. 1959)
Some Historical, Structural and Functional Differences Between the NAACP and the Communist Party - Spring 1959 Issue
One pamphlet featuring an article by C. Wilson Record entitled, "Some Historical, Structural and Functional Differences Between the NAACP and the Communist Party," reprinted from the Alpha Kappa Deltan, Spring 1959 issue. The article touches on the...
GLC09640.004
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