Historical Memorabilia & Americana

[AFRICAN AMERICAN]. A group of 10 titles related to African American history or literature. [V.p., 1939-2003]. 8vos to 4tos. Publisher’s cloth bindings (generally worn and soiled), all but 3 in dust jacket (generally worn, soiled, chipped). FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS. ALL BOOKS SIGNED OR INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR OR EDITOR TO CLAUDE A. BARNETT OR HIS WIFE ETTA M. BARNETT. Titles include: The Philosophy of Booker T. Washington; Strange Fruit; It’s Good to Be Black; The Scholar and the Scalpel; Africa Unbound; My Special Best Words; Passport to Freedom; Poems from Africa; Equal Employment; Before the Mayflower (New Millennium Edition). Most with bookplate of either Claude Albert Barnett (1889-1967), the founder of the Associated Negro Press, or his wife, Etta Moten Barnett (1901-2004) who was an actress, activist, and singer, and was the first African American to perform in the White House in the 20th Century. From the collection of the Barnett family.