Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript African Americana

Early draft of the Letter from Birmingham Jail.

Diary, photographs, and correspondence of modern dance legend Katherine Dunham.

4 issues of Black Opals, the legendary limited-edition literary journal.

Banneker's Almanack, and Ephemeris for the Year of our Lord, 1793.

Katherine Dunham. Large group of letters by the modern dance star to a close friend.

Scarce carte de visite portrait of Douglass, with his signature on verso.

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.

[The Scourged Back.]

Group of photographs of the short-lived but influential New York Negro Ballet Company.

Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude.

Reel-to-reel tape recording of Dr. King speaking to the SCLC board, January 1968.

Letters to poet and editor Nellie Bright from Jessie Redmon Fauset, Laura Wheeler Waring, and more.

Bounty list for enlisted soldiers, including two Black soldiers.

Dallas bus segregation sign.

Letters by a Union occupation soldier, one describing the infamous New Orleans Massacre of 1866.

A Night-Club Map of Harlem, featured in the inaugural issue of "Manhattan:

Invoice drawn up and signed by perhaps the young nation's leading Black merchant.

Door from the "colored" washroom of a North Carolina fertilizer plant.

Original portrait of activist Sue Bailey Thurman, done for the 1942 "Twelve American Women" calendar.

Memoir of James Jackson, the Attentive and Obedient Scholar,

Letter concerning his rival Richard Greener.

Signed letter discussing friction with the remaining French officials in Haiti.

Archive of sketches, correspondence, and other papers of Masood Ali Wilbert Warren.

Group of press photographs and ephemera relating to the Scottsboro Boys.

Original maquette for the 1982 Cultural Freebee Jam flyer, with the printed flyer.