Rare books, pamphlets and papers ... “Here, we encourage you to hold them and get to know what’s within.” February is Black History Month, which began as “Negro History Week” in 1926. As we celebrate ...

(The 1941 edition above resides in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and ... printed 20,000 books annually, which were sold at black churches, the Negro Urban League ...

The “Negro Motorist Green Book,” a guide for African Americans ... I thought I knew a lot about Black history, and I came across all these women-owned businesses in "The Green Book." ...

Washington, the conservative dean of American black leaders. It was while reading Up from Slavery, Garvey said, that he developed his vision for the Universal Negro ... and the history of Africa.

Positioned as a counter to the problematic “magical negro” trope so prevalent in film, wherein a black character is used to help or save a white character’s soul, Morgan instead finds magic ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Journal of Negro History Vol. 3, No. 4, Oct., 1918 What the Framers of the Federal Constitu ...

A signed first edition of Claude McKay’s non-fiction book, “Harlem: Negro Metropolis,” will be on display and available for purchase at this year’s New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.