Manuscripts, Publications and Other Written Work

Printing is not supported at the primary Gallery Thumbnail page. Please first navigate to a specific Image before printing.

Switch View to Grid View Slideshow

Lovejoy, Elizah Parish, 1802-1857.

Facts relating to his murder at Alton /Ill./ Relates to events leading up to the riot resulting in the death of Lovejoy. Also describes riot.
Mortimer, Lillian.

Mammy's Lil' Wild Rose; a comedy-drama of the sunny south in three acts. T.S. Denison & Company, Chicago, 1924. Purchased Bookworm & Silverfish, Oct. 31, 1979.
National Equal Rights League, Call for Speedy Getting Together.

Hillburn. Call to protest against lynching, segregation and racial discrimination
New Castle, [N.Y.]

Excerpts from the historical records of New Castle, Vol. II, regarding New Castle’s private Black cemetery, the Heady Burying Ground named after Lazarus Heady, Sr., a man of “African Descent”, Donated by William H. Toles, March 3, 1982.
New Orleans. City Council.

Regulations for the Port of New Orleans ... Resolutions of the City Council of New Orleans, approved by the Mayor, January 18, 1808. Includes "Extracts from the Laws of the Territory of Orleans".
Notes taken on the performance of the pageant "The Star of Ethiopia" by W.E.B. Du Boi

Star of Ethiopia. Forwarded by Robert M. Pierson, Univ. of Maryland, Library, Sept., 1956. Notes taken on the performance of the pageant "The Star of Ethiopia" by W.E. B. Du Bois at Ball League Park, Washington, D.C.
Pierson, Charles E.

A journal of my acts, commencing March 17, 1862. 2nd volume. Morristown, New Jersey. Gift from Mr. and Mrs. H.S. Smith, Fayettville, North Carolina. Received 12/23/74
Polly Pharaoh.

Extracted from Harpers Now Monthly Magazine, 195-199, n.d.
Robinson, Beverly, M.D.

Critique of "Death penalty encourages lynching" from Western Medical Times, Dec. 1920. Questions, the wisdom of writer's contention that death penalty would encourage lynching.
Robinson, Harold O.

“Reverend James W.H. Easton’s Leadership in the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)”. Term paper, 17 p., 1970s.
Rustin, Bayard, 1910-

A report on twenty-two days on the chaingang at Roxboro, North Carolina, 1949. A documentary account of Rustin's experiences while serving a 30 day jail sentence in Roxboro, North Carolina.
Sissle, Noble.

"Oh Sing A New Song", A historical pageant depicting the evolution of Negro music.
Sluby, Paul E., Sr.

The Columbian Harmony Society; a brief history by Paul E. Sluby, Sr., and Stanton L. Wormley, Jr. Columbian Harmony Society, /Wash., D.C./, 1976. Donated by S. L. Wormley.
Smith, Alfred Edgar.

Smith, Alfred Edgar. The Negro worker; the Works Projects Administration and race relations. Feb., 1943.
The Bear. n.d.(Script)

Donated by Edgar B. Falton, Wash., D.C.
/The Cell In Its Living State/

Research notes on the cell. and its functions. Title taken from the original folder contained these materials at the time of acquisition.
The “Little Giant” or self-generating vapor stove (An advertisement for exhibition and sale).

To be held at Messrs. D.F. McGilvray & Co.’s Auction Store by Griffin & Davis, Sole Proprietors of Suffolk County. Boston, J.E. Farwell and Company, Printers.
Tuskegee Institute. Tuskegee, Ala.

Statement of purpose and size of membership of 7 campus student organizations.
Washington, Booker Taliafero.

Up from slavery: an autobiography. Extracted from: The Outlook, November 1900 - February 23, 1901. Also includes a portrait of Booker T. Washington drawn from life by Alfred Houghton Clark.
Washington Chit Chat.

Clippings regarding Washington Negro society; and about Rev. Francis J. Grimke and Henry M. Stanley.
Washington, Mary Helen.

Zora Neale Hurston: A Woman Half in Shadow. Donated by Mary Helen Washington, Director of the Center for Black Studies, Univ. of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan
Wesley, Charles.

Richard Allen: Apostle of freedom.
Will the Blacks Fight.

Will the Blacks Fight: The Following article, which originally appeared in the New Bedford Mercury, we print by request, as a confirmation of the conclusions to which Colonel Higginson has been led by his recent trial of a battalion of black troops under fire, etc. Boston, MA, 1863.
Wyman, Lillie B. Chace.

Colored churches and schools in the South. Extracted from an Unidentified magazine, 785-796, n.d.
Young, O.E.

Coon Creek Courtship; a negro interlude in one scene. T.S. Denison & Company, Chicago, 1901. Purchased from Bookworm and Silverfish, 10/31/79