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The A. M. E. Book Concern, 631 Pine Street, Philadelphia, PA, 1912.
Credit: Courtesy NYPL Digital gallery, New York Public Library
Based in Philadelphia, the African Methodist Episcopal Church first published The Christian Recorder, its newspaper, in 1843. In the early 1900s, the A.M. E. Book Concern was a national supplier of books by African-American authors, including works written by W. E. B. Du Bois.