Douglass Day 2025
For Douglass Day the Library has gathered books in alignment with the Library of Congress collection. ""African American Perspectives" gives a panoramic and eclectic review of African American history and culture and is primarily comprised of two collections in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division: the African American Pamphlet Collection and the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection with a date range of 1822 through 1909. Most were written by African-American authors, though some were written by others on topics of particular importance in African-American history. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, Emanuel Love, Lydia Maria Child, Kelly Miller, Charles Sumner, Mary Church Terrell, and Booker T. Washington, among others. The 800 + titles in the collection include sermons on racial pride and political activism; annual reports of charitable, educational, and political organizations; and college catalogs and graduation orations from the Hampton Institute, Morgan College, and Wilberforce University. Also included are biographies, slave narratives, speeches by members of Congress, legal documents, poetry, playbills, dramas, and librettos. Other materials focus on segregation, voting rights, violence against African Americans, the colonization of Africa by freed slaves, anti-slavery organizations and investigative reports. Several of the items are illustrated with portraits of the authors."
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Frederick Douglass
Prophet of Freedom
Ida
a Sword Among Lions : Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
Booker T. Washington
the Architect of Progressive Education
Black Ink
Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
The Women's March
a Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession
Ida B. the Queen
the Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
Southern Horrors and Other Writings
the Anti-lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900
The Failed Promise
Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
The President and the Freedom Fighter
Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass
the Story Behind An American Friendship
Picturing Frederick Douglass
An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American
Recognize!
An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
An American Slave
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