Washington, D.C.: New Republic Books, 1978. Photographs, index, bibliography and notes. 216 pgs. ISBN: 0-915220-393.

New York: The Free Press, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thoughtful study of how his attitude towards race changed when he went to Brazil - a country which looks at people through a broad spectrum of colors, rather than black and white as in the US. He discovered in the process that racial identity is of great value rather than the burden it had seemed. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-684-857227.

New York: The Free Press, (1999.). First edition - A thoughtful study of how his attitude towards race changed when he went to Brazil - a country which looks at people through a broad spectrum of colors, rather than black and white as in the US. He discovered in the process that racial identity is of great value rather than the burden it had seemed. 271 pp.

Beverly HIlls, CA & London: Sage Publications, (1985, c.1980.). A thought-provoking collection of essays about Black women, past and present, by Black women. Among the contributors are Gloria Wade-Gayle, Christina Harrington, Willie Mae Hemmons and the editor. References at the end of each article. A Sage Focus Edition. 316 pp. ISBN: 0-8039-13125.

New York: Delacorte, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The NBA player at his frankest and most controversial. Illustrated with many photographs. 261 pages. ISBN: 0-385-318979.

New York: Harper & Row, (1960.). Hardcover - A follow-up, 20 years later, which tells what happened to some of the New Orleans black teenagers interviewed for "Children of Bondage." Appendices, index. 340 pp.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1965.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Warmly INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper - 'For Jean Barr with love and deep appreciation' and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated with photographs and designed to appeal to young people, this book contains short biographies and poetic samples of 12 African American writers, including Arna Bontemps, Francis E. W. Harper, Gwendolyn Brooks, Dunbar and Hughes. A title in the Famous Biographies for Young People series. Bibliography, index. 95 pp.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1957.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in the Famous Biographies For Young People series. Includes brief but pointed and informative biographies on Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong, Lena Horne, Josephine Baker, Paul Robeson, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., Harry Belafronte, Sidney Poitier, Paul Robeson, Bill Bojangles Robinson, Eartha Kitt, Fats Waller and more. Illustrated. Index. 122 pp. Uncommon in the first edition.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1965.) dj. Hardcover - Illustrated with photographs and designed to appeal to young people, this book contains short biographies and poetic samples of 12 African American writers, including Arna Bontemps, Francis E. W. Harper, Gwendolyn Brooks, Dunbar and Hughes. In addition to being a writer herself, Rollins was a pioneering librarian - as the head librarian of the children's department of the Chicago Public Library, she used this position to fight to remove books with negative racist stereotypes and to replace them with books that highlighted contributions by African Americans. Her biography of Langston Hughes received the Coretta Scott King book award. A title in the Famous Biographies for Young People series. Bibliography, index. 95 pp.

New York: Philosophical Library, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - A signficant book which offers insights into the contributions of Africans and African Americans in both ancient and modern times. Among the contributors are John Hope Franklin, Ronald W. Davis, Abraham Chapman, James A Porter and more. Topics include contributions to science, exploration, religious thought, music and dance, sports, literature and art and more. Notes and selected bibliographies at the end of each article. xii, 506 pp. ISBN: 0-80222329X.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Aptly named memoir by the award winning African American journalist - who went on to become an ambassador and later to sit on the President's security council. Photographs, index. 395 pp. ISBN: 0-316-759775.

Boston: Little Brown, (1996.) dj. Hardcover - A look at the festering violence and hate that underlies American life by one of America's best known African American journalists - among other things he discusses education and the IQ myths, the differences in how black and white Americans view O.J. Simpson and Colin Powell - and those who promote racial tensions ranging from Farrakhan to Rush Limbaugh. Index. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-316-759805.

New York: Random House, (1974.). First edition - Uncommon example of the earliest advance issue for this collection of essays and speeches by this noted journalist on many aspects of surviving as a Black person in the US - includes comments on education, crime, drug addiction, welfare, black pride and more. On the cover are the words "uncorrected first proof" with the issue price and date handwritten. Laid in a mimeographed notice from the publisher. 157 pp.

New York: Random House, (1974.). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Essays and speeches by this noted journalist on many aspects of surviving as a Black person in the US - includes comments on education, crime, drug addiction, welfare, black pride and more. SIGNED on the half title page with "Best wishes." 202. ISBN: 0-394-470907.

New York: Ballantine, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Memoir by this woman best known for her thirty year marriage to musician Carlos Santana, but it is an account of a biracial girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father, the blues guitarist Saunders King, and of her freewheeling adventures during the late 1960s, her involvement with Sly Stone, and her spiritual reawakening. "The civil rights movement was the foundation of her growth, the Woodstock era the backdrop of her love with Carlos." SIGNED on the half title page. Glossary of Spanish terms. xiv, 331 pp. ISBN: 978-0345471253.

Los Angeles: Authors Unlimited, (1988). First edition - The author's first book, one which focuses on nine Black leaders in the decades of the Depression and World War II, and before the current civil rights era. Includes brief biographies of Mary McLeod Bethune, A Phillip Randolph, Paul Robeson, Richard Wright, and others - as well as a chapter on the 99th Fighter Squadroon and the 332nd Fighter Group. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography. 176 pp. ISBN: 1-556660324.

New York: Franklin Watts, 1994. The black press from 1827 to the present. Bibliography, endnotes, index. 160pp. ISBN: 0-531-11036-2.

New York: Ballantine, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the middle daughter of Malcolm X, who was not even quite three years old when her father was assassinated, but who grew up with his legacy and the courage of her mother, Betty Shabazz. Illustrated with photographs. xv, 235 pp. ISBN: 0-345444957.

Port Washington, NY: Port Washington Public Library, 1984. First edition - An oral history of several families in the area - some whose roots go back two hundred years and more, others who came during the Great Migration of the 1920s. Illustrated with vintage photographs. Foreword by Farrell Jones and introduction by the compiler Elly Shodell. 36 pp.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958. A comprehensive textbook on the subject. 881 pgs.

Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition -

Middle Village, N.Y.: Jonathan David Publishers, (1972). Hardcover first edition - A massive and comprehensive work, which "presents a well-rounded social history of the African-American, and demonstrates very graphically, in each of its eight sections, the close relationship between folklore and orthodox history." It is far more than just folklore and humor - for example, in the section "The New Breed" there is a chronological listing of slave uprisings and race riots and also a long list of inventions by Negroes between 1870 and 1900. Introduction by J. Mason Brewer. Illustrated with drawings by Rue Knapp. Addenda with soul food recipes. Bibliography, index. xviii, 589 pp.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1969) dj. Hardcover - An exploration of "the history of a major Negro community during a crucial thirty-year period when a relatively fluid pattern of race relations gave way to a rigid system of segregation and discrimination." Includes 17 plates, 4 maps, some double page and 12 tables. Note on sources, index. xvii, 254 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which looks at the history of the Civil Rights movement and after by this National Book Critics Circle Award winning author. In it, he argues that "calls for diversity and programs of affirmative action serve only to stigmatize minorities, portraying them not as capable individuals but as people defined by their membership in a group for which exceptions must be made." vii, 181 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0578629.

New York: The Feminist Press, (1987.). Biography of three heroic black women "whose stories, in the words of Margaret Walker, 'every woman, man, and child should know': Ellen Craft, the daring runaway Georgia slave who used her freedom to serve the cause of abolition; Ida B. Wells [1862-1931], the firebrand journalist whose crusade against lynching awakened the consciousness of a nation; and Mary Church Terrell [1863-1954], a gifted and untiring leader in the movement for suffrage, civil rights, and world peace." Foreword by Margaret Walker and Introduction by Barbara Christian. Photographs, chronologies, bibliographies, index. xliii, 174 pp. ISBN: 0-935312-89-7.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968. Hardcover first edition -