Partners to History: Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and the Civil Rights Movement.
Crown, 2003. First edition; review copy.
Black Voices
Old Massa's People: The Old Slaves Tell Their Story.
Bobbs-Merrill, 1931. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author.
Nobody Knows My Name.
Dial, 1961. First edition, first printing.
Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone.
Dial Press, 1968. First edition, first printing.
Slaves in the Family.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. First edition, first printing.
Black Writers of America: A Comprehensive Anthology.
Macmillan, 1972. Later printing. Black cloth, no dust jacket.
White is a State of Mind: A Memoir.
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. First edition; review copy.
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years.
Simon & Schuster, 1998. First edition, first printing.
Rosa Parks.
Viking, 2000. Second printing.
You May Plow Here: The Narrative of Sara Brooks.
W. W. Norton, 1986. First edition, first printing. Signed by Thordis Simonsen.
Middle Passages: African-American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005.
Penguin, 2006. First edition, first printing.
Between the World and Me.
Spiegel & Grau, 2015. Later printing.
Colored Methodist Episcopal Church Through the Years.
Jackson: C. M. E. Church, 1949. Brown cloth, no dust jacket.
Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imgaination.
Cambridge U. Press, 1990.
The Delany Sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom.
Kodansha, 1994. First edition, first printing.
Black English: Its History and Usage in the United States.
Random House, 1972. Second printing.
Tears We Cannot Stop : A Sermon to White America.
St. Martin's Press, 2017. Later printing.
The Sea is so Wide and My Boat is So Small.
Hyperion, 2008. First edition, first printing.
Better Day Coming; Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000.
Viking, 2000. First edition.
Goodbye to Uncle Tom: An Analysis of the Myths Pertaining to the American Negro, from their Origins to the Misconceptions of Today.
William Sloane, 1956. Second printing.
To Be, or not...to Bop.
Doubleday & Co., 1979. First edition, first printing.
Racism 101.
William Morrow, 1994. First edition, first printing.
Those Who Ride the Night Winds.
William Morrow, 1983. First edition, first printing. Briefly inscribed by the author on the ffep.
Change Sings: A Children's Anthem.
Viking, 2021. First edition, first printing. Amanda Gorman is the youngest presidential inaugural poet in US History.
The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom and Deception in the New World.
Metropolitan Books, 20154. First edition, first printing.