"Expanded, second edition of the 1973 bibliography documenting holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, based on the exhibition 'Negro History: 1553-1903.' Annotates almost 20,000 printed works and manuscripts, including more than 2500 new entries"--Provided by publisher.

A handwritten draft of Alexander Crummell's work "The black woman of the South," which was published in two editions; one edition (not in Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906) is in 16 pages, was published at Washington, D.C., and has imprint at foot of p. 16: "Byron S. Adams, Printer, 514 Eighth Street." ; The other edition (Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.); Suppl. 537) is in 14, [2] (i.e. 16) pages, and was published at Cincinnati by the Woman’s Home Missionary Society.

Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.

This book "is a selected list of books in the collections of the Library of Congress compiled primarily for researchers of Afro-American lineages. Included in this bibliography are guidebooks, bibliographies, genealogies, collective biographies, United States local histories, directories, and other works pertaining specifically to Afro-Americans. Emphasis is on books that contain information about lesser-known individuals of the nineteenth century and earlier, although Afro-American business and city directories published through 1959 are listed"--Introd.