African Americans have made extraordinary contributions to the history and culture of the United States as part of the nation and apart from it. This month, Auction Finds presents “28 days (Plus 1)” of this…
Tag: Langston Hughes
Black footprint in America came way before slavery
Posted in Black history, Books, and history
At auction some years ago, I stumbled across a worn, beaten-down and scruffy book whose title faintly included the word “Negroes.” Opening it, I saw that it was children’s book titled “The First Book of…
My mind was drifting to the sound of an auctioneer in an adjoining room of the auction house when I heard the word “Harlem.” I looked up front to the TV monitor in the room where I sat to see a book…
I had thumbed quickly through the two long rows of African American-themed books on a table at auction this week, but nothing struck me. Until another auction-goer mentioned that he had set aside a copy…