BENJAMIN BANNEKER. Bannekers . . . Almanack and Ephemeris, for the Year of our Lord, 1792.

(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Carte-de-visite of Charles Remond Douglass in uniform.

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Archive of the slave-owning Randolph family of Virginia.

(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Scott Joplin. Treemonisha: Opera in Three Acts.

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) McPherson & Oliver; photographers. [The Scourged Back.]

(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Archive of Dizzy Gillespies personal music and arrangements.

(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Substantial archive of Louis Armstrong, including memoirs, signed contract, travel itineraries, and more.

(ENTERTAINMENT--THEATER.) Lorraine Hansberry. The actress Juanita Moores copy of the script for Raisin in the Sun.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself.

(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Martin Luther King. Why We Cant Wait,

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) McPherson & Oliver, photographers. Carte de visite of a pair of contrabands.

(CIVIL RIGHTS.) J. Edgar Hoover. Letter defending the FBIs civil rights record in the wake of the Emmett Till lynching.

BENJAMIN BANNEKER. His famous correspondence with Thomas Jefferson, as published in an issue of the Universal Asylum

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) John W. Barber, compiler. A History of the Amistad Captives,

(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Thurgood Marshall. Photograph inscribed to his successor at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) McPherson & Oliver; photographers. Carte-de-visite photograph of a contraband camp at Baton Rouge.

(BLACK PANTHERS.) [Emory Douglas, artist.] You Can Jail a Revolutionary, but You Cant Jail a Revolution.

(WOMENS HISTORY.) Anna Julia Cooper. A Voice from the South, by a Black Woman of the South.

(ENTERTAINMENT--THEATER.) Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps. Jubilee: A Cavalcade of the Negro Theatre.

(ENTERTAINMENT.) E. Simms Campbell, artist. A Night-Club Map of Harlem,

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Abolitionist handbag in support of the Negro Woman who sittest pining in captivity.

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Slaves! Valuable Cooks, Washers, Ironers, House Servants, Blacksmith and Slater.

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself.

(FREDERICK DOUGLASS.) [John White Hurn, photographer.] Carte-de-visite portrait of Douglass, taken by an old ally.

(MILITARY--WORLD WAR TWO.) Above and Beyond the Call of Duty: Dorie Miller Received the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor.

(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Jesse O. Thomas. Negro Participation in the Texas Centennial Exposition.

MARTIN LUTHER KING. His signature on the jacket of the LP March on Washington: The Official Album.

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Elizabeth Ambrose Merrill. Letter describing the final days and death of abolitionist martyr Elijah Lovejoy.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Letter confirming his upcoming lecture on John Brown.

MARTIN LUTHER KING. Short personal letter to a Chicago civil rights leader.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Proceedings of the Civil Rights Mass-Meeting Held at Lincoln Hall.

(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Equality: Dinner Given at the White House by President Theodore Roosevelt to Booker T. Washington.

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Letter written on stationery, with the famed engraving by Patrick Reason.

(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Briefing book for Brown v. Board of Education, the personal copy of one of the key attorneys.

(LITERATURE.) William Wells Brown. Manuscript draft of a passage from his My Southern Home.

(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Correspondence of an officer of the 14th R.I. Heavy Artillery Regiment (Colored).

(MARTIN LUTHER KING.) Autographed program for a Chicago tribute to Dr. King.

(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Danny Lyon; photographer. Now.

(WOMENS HISTORY.) The Madam C. J. Walker Beauty Manual: A Thorough Treatise Covering all Branches of Beauty Culture.

(FREDERICK DOUGLASS.) George Kendall Warren, photographer. The classic carte-de-visite portrait of Douglass.

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Carte-de-visite portrait of Sojourner Truth: I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance.

(LITERATURE.) Papers of author Joe C. Brown, a lifelong friend of Richard Wright.

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Dinah Browning. An enslaved womans letter to her former master.

(ART.) National Conference of Artists Presents: A Print Portfolio by Negro Artists.

(ART.) Group of 4 pieces of exhibition ephemera from the Where We At: Black Women Artists art collective.

(MILITARY--AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) The old master of manumitted slave Brister Warner claims his back pay.

(MILITARY--WAR OF 1812) A spys report from the Florida frontier, including a description of what became the famed Negro Fort.

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Octavia V. Rogers Albert. The House of Bondage, or Charlotte Brooks and other Slaves.

(CIVIL RIGHTS.) James Meredith. Three Years in Mississippi,

(WOMENS HISTORY.) Wanted: Justice for Joanne Little.

(LITERATURE.) Lewis Howard Latimer. Poems of Love and Life.

(BUSINESS.) Photograph of the Boyd and Miller Barber Shop.

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Charles Paxson, photographer. Wilson, Branded Slave from New Orleans.

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Detailed accounting of a Maryland familys enslaved people who were not worth the maintenance.

(LITERATURE.) Three issues of the important Anglo-African Magazine.

(LITERATURE.) Nancy Cunard; editor. Negro Anthology.

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Memorandum book tracking many dozens of enslaved people at a Mississippi plantation.

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) William Wilberforce. A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade.

(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Group of images from Life Magazines coverage of the Newark riots.

(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Portrait of Nick Biddle, said to be the first man wounded in the Civil War.