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The 48-page comic book was published in 1947 and features characters such as police detective Ace Harlem and Lion Man, a college-educated scientist and superhero. It was the first comic book written and drawn solely by African American writers and…

Handwritten, 1-page account of the sale of an “infant negro”, mounted into a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and handwritten entries dealing primarily with the issue of slavery, dated to approximately 1817-1848.

Book. Pagination: viii, 338 p., port. ; 21 cm. Digitized as a part of the Association of Southeast Research Libraries (ASERL) cooperative digitization project "Civil War in the American South."

Deed for the sale of fifteen slaves by Josias Gray, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, to Ann Maria, a free woman of color, of the same parish, in consideration of service rendered Gray by Ann Maria, in the capacity of Housekeeper, since her…

Pamphlet published by a Howard University professor arguing for the value of higher education for African Americans and the need to make it an aim of philanthropy.

Convicts breaking rock, at unidentified location in Georgia, 1934.

Entrance for African Americans at the Roxy Theatre, one of Atlanta’s movie palaces, in 1954.

Entrance for African Americans at the Roxy Theatre, one of Atlanta’s movie palaces, in 1954.

Convicts with a horse cart, before or after field work, at unidentified location in Georgia, 1934.

A two page letter from Lewis Wood to his wife detailing an experience he had at a slave auction.