Nashville: State Department of Education, 1935. 22pp. Original gray printed wrappers, stapled. Light discoloration to front wrapper, minor creasing. Internally clean. A scarce state publication designed to guide teachers and librarians in segregated Tennessee in assembling a collection of works related to the African American experience. The Foreword reads, in.....
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[Union City, Tn.]: 1901. Broadside handbill, 8.75 x 5 inches, printed on thin pink paper. Old creases, minor staining and edge wear. A rare, and perhaps unrecorded program printing the order of events at a concert performed by students in the grammar school department of the Union City Colored School.....
Nashville: 1949. 139,[1]pp. Small folio. Original embossed, pictorial cloth. Boards scuffed and dust soiled, heavier wear to spine. Hinges broken, text block coming detached. Light soiling and toning internally. Contemporary manuscript annotations in a number of hands throughout, including ownership inscription on front free endpaper recto. Scarce, post-war issue of.....
Memphis: 1959. Pictorial broadside on newsprint, 9 x 6 inches. Even tanning, mild wear. A rare handbill advertising a revival at Greater Middle Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, led by famous Civil Rights leader, Ben Hooks, with a portrait of Hooks within the text. Benjamin L. Hooks returned home to.....
[Memphis: Us Incorporated], February, 1954. 32pp. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers printed in brown and orange, stapled. Mild wear to wrappers, small marginal stain to top edge of last several leaves. The rare inaugural, and only, issue of this well-illustrated African-American magazine from Memphis. The stated goals of the magazine were.....
[New York and Memphis: Black and White Company, ca. 1940s]. 28pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor toning, light soiling to wrappers. A rare pamphlet promoting the beauty products of the Black and White Company. According to the introductory text: "'Dreams Come True' is presented for your entertainment and pleasure by.....
[N.p., likely Chattanooga, Tn. ca. 1940]. Photo-illustrated broadside, 8.75 x 5.5 inches, printed on cardstock. Small chip to lower left corner, minor edge wear and rubbing, uneven toning around edges. A very rare handbill touting the achievements of Rev. William M.S. McCutcheon, pastor of the Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in.....
Dickson, Tn. [ca. 1920]. Broadside, 9 x 6 inches. Minor wear, even toning, old folds. An informative broadside relating to an obscure African American mutual aid society in Houston County, Tennessee. The broadside announces a three-day meeting to be held at the St. James A.M.E. Church in Dickson, in order.....
Chattanooga, TN: Sidebottom & Kerr, 1898. [48]pp. Slim oblong octavo. Original orange-tan wrappers printed in black, stapled. Wrappers soiled, creased, and chipped, with contemporary ownership inscription on front wrapper. First and last leaves detached from text block, text block itself detached from wrappers. Good only. A scarce historical photobook that.....