[AFRICAN AMERICAN]. A group of 11 titles related to African American history or literature. [V.p., 1930s-2005]. 8vos. Publisher?s cloth bindings (one title in wrappers - cloth bindings generally worn and soiled), only 2 in dust jacket (somewhat rubbed). 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: When Black Meets White; Strange Fruit; the Policy King; Of Men and Arms; Black Bourgeoisie; Negroes in Britain; What Shall I Tell My Children?; Lessons: 1984 Candidacy; Forced Into Glory; Kings (this book in wrappers). Many 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.