title: Legacy: Treasures of Black History
author: Thomas C. Battle
description: In 1948 Arthur Springarn, legal counsel for the NAACP, donated a collection of books, manuscripts, and memorabilia to the Howard University library, which had been donated by Jesse Moorland, YMCA administrator and longtime supporter of the university. This book offers readers a look at the contents of what became known as the Springarn-Moorland Research Center, a collection that has never been published in book form until now. Historian John Hope Franklin wrote the preface, and black studies scholar Charles Blockson provided the afterword. In between is an amazing collection of photographs, artifacts, illustrations, and essays portraying black history from the slave trade through current times. The images include seventeenth-century maps of Africa, posters of runaway slaves, a bell that belonged to Sally Hemmings, rare daguerreotypes of Frederick Douglass and other prominent blacks, Black Panther posters, and NAACP membership buttons from the 1960s. This book is rich in illustration and research treasures for both the scholar and the casual reader of black history. <i>Vanessa Bush</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
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  To The Front
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [PRELUDE.  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER I. FROM THE GRAY TO THE BLUE  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER II. THE FIRST CALL  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER III. AWAY TO THE WEST  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER IV. “I'M READY NOW”  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER V. FIRST NIGHT ON THE RANGE  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER VI. FIRST AID TO THE WOUNDED  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER VII. A BALKED ARREST  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER VIII. A RACE TO THE FORT  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER IX. BAD NEWS FROM THE MINES  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER X. FIRST SHOTS OF THE SUMMER  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XI. A NIGHT ON GUARD  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XII. THE MAN OF THE SIEGE  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XIII. AWAY ON THE WARPATH  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XIV. A SCOUT FOR THE SIOUX  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XV. FIRST SIGHT OF THE FOE  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XVI. PROOF POSITIVE OF GUILT  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XVII. THE WAR-DANCE AND THE CHARGE  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XVIII. BATTLE AND VICTORY
  
  
  
  
  
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