Ain't Got Time to Die [Negro Spiritual]
New York: G. Schirmer, 1955. A fun, syncopated spiritual for a cappella choir. There's also a part for a tenor solo. Requires a full group, as all parts divide at times. A rousing handclapper!
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New York: G. Schirmer, 1955. A fun, syncopated spiritual for a cappella choir. There's also a part for a tenor solo. Requires a full group, as all parts divide at times. A rousing handclapper!
New York: The Viking Press, 1934. First Edition, First Printing. James Weldon Johnson, a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, and a prolific American author authored. He was a leader in the NAACP, diplomat to Venezuela, and the inaugural African-American professor at New York University, In this important yet very.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1937. 11th Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This compelling anthology of African American spirituals, curated by the esteemed poet James Weldon Johnson and adapted for voice and piano by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson, showcases 61 of these captivating religious folk melodies for contemporary rendition.....
New York: Free Press, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This elegantly written, solidly researched, articulate history is well suited for students who want to understand the tragedy of America's racial past. In the World War II European Theater, 55 of the 70 American servicemen executed for.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. A Fine Softcover. Confederate Emancipation offers an engaging and illuminating account of a fascinating and politically charged idea, setting it firmly and vividly in the context of the Civil War and the part played in it by the issue of slavery and the actions.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. In collaboration with prolific sportswriter Lou Sahadi, Willie Mays recounts his remarkable journey from starting professional baseball at just 16 in the Negro Leagues to being drafted by the New York Giants. Over his illustrious career.....
New York: MetroBooks, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Filled with captivating historical photographs and paintings showcasing the iconic players and teams of the Negro Leagues, "A Game for All Races," authored by acclaimed sportswriter and historian Henry Metcalfe, delves into the profound impact of baseball on.....
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The Highwaymen, also referred to as the Florida Highwaymen, are a group of 26 African American landscape artists in Florida. Self-taught and Self-Mentoring, they created a body of work of over 200,000 paintings, despite facing.....
Garden City: Garden City Pub. Co., 1942. Reprint Edition. Excerpt from What the Negro Thinks: 'This volume aims to place on record some facts concern ing a phase of the Negro problem of which, up to this time, little has been known outside of the race; that is, what the.....
Orlando: Tribune Pub, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. This compilation offers a touching and informative portrait of one of America's most influential writers. Nathiri has enlivened and broadened our image of Hurston by bringing together Hurston's friends and relatives for a comprehensive interview, furnishing a gallery of color photographs, and providing.....
Hollywood, CA: The Oliver Press at the Wetzel Publishing Company, 1927. First Edition, First Printing. Flexible red leatherette wraps. A compilation of evangelical sermons delivered in the distinctive Southern Black dialect collected by Reverend Oliver, a prominent white Presbyterian Christian evangelist hailing from Kansas City and later relocating to California.....
1992: HarperCollins, Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This masterpiece of scholarship and compression, The African Experience, covers the entire span of human history across the African continent, from the earliest emergence of hominids in eastern and southern Africa up to the present day. Drawing on more than forty years of teaching.....
Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Explains how jazz was shaped by urbanization, the 'great migration' of southern blacks northward, and the 'jazz image' - dress code, jargon, and use of drugs. This book places jazz in its rich.....
Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The U.S. government's space program is depicted as a corps shaped by an arrogant, ingrown elitism which discouraged racial diversity among its candidates regardless of their competencies. For the first 17 years of manned space flight, America's.....
Boston: Eastern Pub. Company, 1900. First Edition, First Printing. Decorated Cloth Hardcover. 13 stories of Plantation Life focusing on servants and writing conversations in dialect that depict benevolent masters and honored slaves. Written from a revisionist perspective.Ref: Wright American fiction ; v. 3, no. 4253.
New York, NY: Monthly Review Press, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. In the 1940s, at the height of segregation, Charles Preston became the unlikely newest worker at a black owned-and-operated newspaper. Preston, a white man and, unknown to most of his colleagues, a member of the Communist Party.....
Athens; Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. One of the most elegant mansions in Florida, Goodwood was built over a century ago and stands today as one of Tallahassee’s grandest historical monuments.It was once the center of.....
Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. In homespun words, strong-minded Rice, born in 1909 in rural Alabama, bears witness to her hard life as a black woman. . . . Rice's comments on social and racial.....
Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. In this penetrating biography, Daniel Schafer vividly chronicles Kingsley’s evolving thoughts on race and slavery, exploring his business practices and his private life.Kingsley’s assertion that color should not be a “badge of.....
New York: PublicAffiairs, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. In the 1940s, FDR's decision to integrate the defense industry prompted a significant influx of black workers to a concentrated area of Los Angeles, sparking vibrant cultural activity in arts, culture, and politics. Central Avenue became a hub.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. 10th Printing May 1922. This influential book of the period between the world wars discusses racialism and geopolitics. Stoddard argued that the decline of white supremacy and colonialism would result from population growth among people of color, increasing nationalism in colonized regions, and industrialization.....
New York: Pantheon, 2016. Fourth Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Provides the first complete history of the Attica Prison uprising of 1971 and details not only the events of the week-long uprising and its brutal ending, but also the protracted legal battles that persisted for decades after.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. The back of the dust jacket describes the main character John Shaft: "Who the hell does he think he is, this blackface Bogart who says the Revolution is a new way to.....
New York: R. F. Fenno & Company, 1896. First Edition, First Printing. Decorated Cloth Hardcover. 'A love story set in the picturesque Mississippi valley describing the conditions that prevailed immediately after the War of the Rebellion. Uncle Scipio is old negro slave.' Publishers WeeklyBackground Information:Jeannette H. Walworth was an American.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Watkins presents a comprehensive exploration of African American humor, asserting its role in reflecting, mocking, and humanizing the core of American society. With a wealth of research and drawing on his experience as a former New.....