Black Authors

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Black Manhattan / James Weldon Johnson. by Series: American Negro, his history and literature
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Arno Press, 1968 [c1930]
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Ii 4 A1298.O.
Black-belt diamonds : gems from the speeches, addresses, and talks to students of Booker T. Washington / selected and arranged by Victoria Earle Matthews ; introduction by T. Thomas Fortune. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: microfilm ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Fortune and Scott, 1898; N.Y. New York.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1898 Wash 66980.D.
Booker T. Washington's own story of his life and work / including an authoritative sixty-four page supplement by Albon L. Holsey ... the original autobiography brought up to date with a complete account of Dr. Washingtons̓ sickness and death ; containing the only photos of the funeral and burial. by
Edition: The authentic ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: [s.l.] : J.L. Nichols & Co, c1915
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Uz WASHING- TON A1993.O (Willis).
Branding a female slave [graphic].
Material type: Graphic Graphic; Format: print ; Type of visual material: graphic
Publication details: [Washington, D.C.: s.n., 1914]; DC. Washington.
In: Cromwell, John W. (John Wesley), b. 1846. Negro in American history
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Bulletin of the Department of Labor : No. 14--January, 1898. Issued every other month. / Edited by Carroll D. Wright, commissioner. Oren W. Weaver, chief clerk.. by Series: House document (United States. Congress. House) ; no. 206, pt. 1.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Washington: : Government Printing Office., 1898; D.C. Washington.
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Bulletin of the Department of Labor : No. 35--July, 1901. Issued every other month. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Washington : Government Printing Office, 1901; D.C. Washington.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1901 U.S. Dept Lab 78320.O.
Centennial encyclopaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church : containing principally the biographies of the men and women, both ministers and laymen, whose labors during a hundred years, helped make the A.M.E. Church what it is; also short historical sketches of annual conferences, educational institutions, general departments, missionary societies of the A.M.E. Church, and general information about African Methodism and the Christian church in general : being a literary contribution to the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church denomination by Richard Allen and others, at Philadelphia, Penna., in 1816 / by Richard R. Wright, Jr., A.M., B.D., Ph.D. author of "The negro in Pennsylvania," "The teachings of Jesus," editor of The Christian recorder editor-in-chief ; assisted by John R. Hawkins, A.M., LL.B. financial secretary of the A.M.E. Church; formerly secretary of education, A.M.E. Church associate editor ; introduction by Bishop L.J. Coppin, D.D., LL.D. thirtieth bishop of the A.M.E. Church; author of "Relation of baptized children to the church," "Key to scriptural interpretation," "Observations of persons and things in South Africa," "Fifty-two suggestive sermon syllabi," etc.. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Philadelphia : [publisher not identified, 1916]
Other title:
  • Centennial encyclopedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: *Am 1916 Church 17748.Q (Schimmel).
Character building : being addresses delivered on Sunday evenings to the students of Tuskegee Institute / by Booker T. Washington. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903, c1902; N.Y. New York.
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Character building : being addresses delivered on Sunday evenings to the students of Tuskegee Institute / by Booker T. Washington. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902; N.Y. New York.
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Christ on the cross : a sermon preached before the Baptist Educational, Missionary and S.S. Convention of South Carolina, in Columbia, S.C., May 11, 1887 / by R. Carroll, Pastor of the Springfield Baptist Church, Greenville, S.C. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Greenville, S.C. : Hoyt & Keys, 1887; S.C. Greenville.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1887 Carro 101468.D.
Christian missions and African colonization, / by John B. Adger.. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Columbia, S.C.: : Steam Power Press of E.H. Britton., 1857; S.C. Columbia.
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Christianity, Islam and the Negro race / by Edward W. Blyden ... ; With an introduction by Samuel Lewis ... by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: London : W. B. Whittingham, 91, Gracechurch Street : The Charterhouse Press, 44 & 45 Charterhouse Square, London, 1887; ENG. London.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1887 Blyden 25408.O.
Civil rights bill / speech of Hon. Richard H. Cain, of South Carolina, delivered in the House of Representatives, Saturday, Jan. 24, 1874. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: [Washington, D.C. : s.n., 1874]; D.C. Washington.
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Clotelle [electronic resource] : a tale of the Southern States / by W.W. Brown. by Series: Wright American fiction ; v. 2 (1851-1875)
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Literary form: Fiction
Publication details: Boston : J. Redpath, 1864
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Clotelle : a tale of the Southern States / William Wells Brown. by
Edition: The first American edition reproduced in facsimile from the copy of the Library Company of Philadelphia with a biographical introduction by Maxwell Whiteman.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Fiction
Publication details: Philadelphia : Albert Saifer, [1955]; PA. Philadelphia.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1955 Brown 119442.D.
Clotelle : a tale of the southern states / By W.W. Brown. by Series: Redpath's books for the camp fires ; no. 2
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Fiction
Publication details: Boston : New York : Boston : James Redpath, publisher. 221 Washington Street ; H. Dexter, Hamilton & Co. ; press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery, [1864]; MASS. Boston. ; N.Y. New York.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1864 Bro 15156.D .7.
Clotelle, or, The colored heroine [electronic resource] : a tale of the Southern States / by William Wells Brown. by Series: Wright American fiction ; v. 2 (1851-1875)
Material type: Text Text; Format: electronic available online remote; Literary form: Fiction
Publication details: Boston : Lee & Shepard, 1867
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Color and democracy : colonies and peace / by W.E.B. Du Bois. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Harcourt, Brace and Co., [c1945]; N.Y. New York.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1945 DuBoi 69303.D.
Condition of the American colored population : and of the colony at Liberia. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Boston : published by Peirce & Parker, 1833; MASS. Boston.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1833 Mass Col 77973.O.
Confession of John Joyce, alias Davis, : who was executed on Monday, the 14th of March, 1808, for the murder of Mrs. Sarah Cross; : with an address to the public, and people of colour, together with the substance of the trial, and the address of Chief Justice Tilghman, on his condemnation.. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Philadelphia: : Printed at no. 12, Walnut Street, for the benefit of Bethel Church., 1808; PA. Philadelphia.
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Constitution of the American Society of Free Persons of Colour, for improving their condition in the United States; for purchasing lands; and for the establishment of a settlement in Upper Canada : Also the proceedings of the convention, with their address to the free persons of color in the United States. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Philadelphia : Printed by J.W. Allen, 1831; PA. Philadelphia.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1831 Ame Soc 9136.O .7 (Rawle).
Copy of a letter from Benjamin Banneker to the secretary of state, with his answer [microform]. by Series: Early American imprints. First series ; ; no. 24073. | Early American imprints. First series ; ; no. 24074.
Material type: Text Text; Format: microfiche microfiche ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Daniel Lawrence, no. 33. North Fourth-Street, near Race., M.DCC.XCII. [1792]
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (2)Call number: Evans Microcard 24073, ...
Copy of a letter from Benjamin Banneker to the secretary of state, with his answer. by
Publication details: Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Daniel Lawrence, no. 33. North Fourth-Street, near Race, M.DCC.XCII. [1792];
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Darkwater : voices from within the veil / by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920; N.Y. New York
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1920 Dubois 83920.D.
Duplicate copy of the souvenir from the Afro-American league of Tennessee to Hon. James M. Ashley, of Ohio .../ Edited by Benjamin W. Arnett. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print festschrift ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Philadelphia : Publishing house of the A. M. E. church, 1894; PA. Philadelphia.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1894 Ash 72820.O.
Dusk of dawn : an essay toward an autobiography of a race concept / by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1940
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Im 2 A1881.O (Willis).
Economic co-operation among Negro Americans : report of a social study made by Atlanta University, under the patronage of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., together with the proceedings of the 12th Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on Tuesday, May the 28th, 1907 / edited by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois ... by Series: Atlanta University publications ; no. 12
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Atlanta, Ga. : The Atlanta University Press, 1907; GA. Atlanta.
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Efforts for social betterment among Negro Americans : Report of a social study made by Atlanta University ... together with the proceedings of the 14th Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University on Tuesday, May the 24th, 1909 / Edited by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois ... by Series: American Negro, his history and literature | Publications (Atlanta University) ; no. 14.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: [New York : Arno Press, 1968.]
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Ok (b.w.) A1327.O .8.
England and Liberia. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: [Washington, D.C. : s.n., 1884.]; [D.C. Washington?
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1884 Ame Col Soc 52900.O .10.
Examination of Mr. Thomas C. Brown, a free colored citizen of S. Carolina, as to the actual state of things in Liberia in the years 1833 and 1834 : at the Chatham Street Chapel, May 9th & 10th, 1834. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New-York : S.W. Benedict & Co. printers, 162 Nassau Street, 1834; N.Y. New York.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1834 Brown 11002.O .2.
Exhibition catalogue : first annual exhibition of books, manuscripts, paintings, engravings, sculptures, et cetera. / By the Negro Library Association at the Carlton Avenue Young Men's Christian Association ... Brooklyn August 7 to 16, 1918 ... ; Compiled by Arthur A. Schomburg ... aad [sic] Robert T. Browne, president. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: [New York] : The Poole Press Association, printers 57 Ann St., New York City, [1918]; N.Y. New York.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1918 Neg Lib 78597.O.
Fifth annual report of City Missionary, for the Destitute Portion of the Coloured Population. by
Material type: Text Text; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: [New York : Published by order of the Executive Committee of the American Missionary Association, 1849]; N.Y. New York.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1849 Ame Mis 72954.O.
Fifty years & other poems / by James Weldon Johnson ... ; With an introduction by Brander Matthews. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: [Boston] : The Cornhill Company Boston : Seaver-Howland Press 271 Franklin St. Boston, c1917; MASS. Boston.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1917 Johns 70663.D.
Fifty-fifth annual report of the American Colonization Society : with the minutes of the annual meeting and of the board of directors, January 16 and 17, 1872. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Washington City : Colonization Building, 1872; D.C. Washington.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1872 Ame Col Soc 76873.O.
Fifty-first annual report of the American Colonization Society : with the proceedings of the annual meeting and of the board of directors, January 21, 22, and 23, 1868. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Washington : Colonization Society Building, 1868; D.C. Washington.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1868 Ame Col Soc 76872.O.
Fifty-sixth annual report of the American Colonization Society : with the minutes of the annual meeting and of the board of directors, January 21 and 22, 1873. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Washington City : Colonization Building, 1873; D.C. Washington.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1873 Ame Col Soc 76874.O.
Fifty-third annual report of the American Colonization Society : with the proceedings of the annual meeting and of the board of directors, January 18, 19, and 20, 1870. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Washington : Colonization Building, 1870; D.C. Washington.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1870 Ame Col Soc 18509.O .12.
Forty-seventh annual report of the American Colonization Society : with the proceedings of the annual meeting and of the board of directors: January 19, 1864. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Washington : Colonization Society Building, 1864; D.C. Washington.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1864 Ame Col Soc 53281.O .7.
Forty-third annual report of the American Colonization Society, : with the proceedings of the board of directors and of the society. January 17. 1860. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Washington [D.C.]: : C. Alexander, printer, F near Seventeenth Street., 1860; D.C. Washington.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1860 Amer Col 79665.O.
Franz Boas and W.E.B. Du Bois at Atlanta University, 1906 / Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, William Shedrick Willis. by Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 98, pt. 2.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 2008
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Frederick Douglass / by Booker T. Washington. by Series: American crisis biographies
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Philadelphia : George W. Jacobs & Co., 1907, c1906; PA. Philadelphia.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1906 Wash 73007.D.
Freedom's prophet : Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black founding fathers / Richard S. Newman. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : New York University Press, c2008
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Uz Allen A4084.O.
From the darkness of Africa to the light of America : the story of an African prince / by Thomas E. Besolow. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Boston : Frank Wood, printer, 352 Washington Street, 1891; MASS. Boston.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1891 Besol 35603.D.
Heroes of the colored race. [graphic]. by
Material type: Graphic Graphic; Format: print ; Type of visual material: graphic
Publication details: Philadelphia : Published by J. Hoover, 628 Arch St., 1881; PA. Philadelphia.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: **GC - African American Heroes [8140.F].
History of African Methodism in Virginia, or, Four decades in the Old Dominion / by Israel L. Butt ; introd. by Benjamin F. Lee ... by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Hampton, Va. : Hampton Institute Press, 1908; VA. Hampton.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1908 Butt 78931.O.
History of the Afro-American group of the Episcopal Church / by George F. Bragg. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Baltimore, Maryland : Church Advocate Press, 1922; MD. Baltimore.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1922 Bra 69430.D.
History of the American Missionary Association : with statistical tables. by
Edition: Fourth edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : published by the American Missionary Association, 1876; N.Y. New York.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1876 Ame Miss 21156.O .16.
History of the American Missionary Association : its churches and educational institutions among the freedmen, Indians, and Chinese. With illutrative facts and anecdotes. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New-York : S.W. Green, printer, 1874; N.Y. New York.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1874 Ame Miss 52280.O .5.
Humble folks : poems / composed by Elliott Blaine Henderson. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Springfield, Ohio : published by the author, 1909; OH. Springfield.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1909 Hend 77316.O.
Incidents in the life of Solomon Bayley. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: [Philadelphia] : Published by the Tract Association of Friends, Philadelphia, [1859?]; PA. Philadelphia.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Am 1859 Bay 50690.D .73.
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