Southern justice: an indictment
Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1965. 30p., 8.5x11 inches, very good in wraps. One of a series of special reports by the Council on desegregation in southern cities. More
Cat.No: 38265
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Spotlight: A report on the Smith Act Trials. Vol. 1 no. 5 (February 1954)
Detroit: Committee to Keep McCarthyism Out of Michigan by Fighting Smith Act Persecutions, 1952. Four-page newsletter, 8.5x11 inches, faint horizontal fold. Updates and appeals for aid during the Smith Act trials of six Michigan-based communist defendants. More
Cat.No: 250977
State laws of special value to women: January 1, 1951
Washington DC: Dept. of Labor, Women's Bureau, 1951. Unpaginated, mimeographed 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at upper left. State by state breakdown of labor laws, inheritance, rights of widows, and other legal issues relevant to women. Rubberstamp of the ILWU library on cover. OCLC lists four copies. More
Cat.No: 135495
State of California narcotic act 1959; excerpts from the California vehicle code relating to drug addicts; excerpts from penal code relating to concealed weapons
Sacramento: Department of Justice, 1959. 38p., 6x9 inches, stapled yellow wraps. Division 10, Health and Safety Code. More
Cat.No: 149379
The stateswoman; current issues of women's equality. Vol. 1 no. 1 September 1979
Madison: the paper, 1979. Single large folio leaf of newsprint folded and printed to make 4p., 17 x 11.25 inches, and folded again to standard tabloid appearance. Mildly browned and edgeworn. The 1978 Wisconsin election (Gov. Dreyfus took office January 79) opens some political doors. Also discussed, law and recourse..... More
Cat.No: 71397
Stop the Human-Life Amendment / Abortion rights for all women [pinback button]
n.p. Reproductive Rights National Network, [1979-?]. 1.75 inch diameter pin, very good; possibly a reference to the Hyde amendment. There were several versions of the HLA over the years. More
Cat.No: 237645
Summary: the effects of labor legislation on the employment opportunities of women. Reprint of chapter II of Bulletin 65, showing scope, method, and conclusions of the investigation of the Women's Bureau of the effects of labor legislation on the employment opportunities of women
Washington: GPO, 1928. xii, 22p., wraps, neatly ex libris. United States Department of Labor. Bulletin of the Women's Bureau, no. 68. More
Cat.No: 137662
Support the ERA / "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex" [pinback button]
n.p. [197-]. Large three-inch diameter pin with text of the proposed amendment; very good. More
Cat.No: 259356
Support the Gay Rights Bill / In New York City / Housing / Jobs / Freedom Now [pinback button]
New York: mfg. by NG Slater, [197-]. Large 2.5 inch pin, very good. The first attempt to pass the bill was in 1971, with repeated efforts finally succeeding in 1986. More
Cat.No: 247056
Survey of Pennsylvania county court and correctional services for women and girl offenders. Parts 1-3
Philadelphia, PA: American Association of University Women; Pennsylvania program for women and girl offenders, Inc., 1969. Three volumes, 50p., pp 51-89, 34p., all 8.5x11 inches, wraps. Not found in OCLC. The three parts are titled "The women, the jails, and probation;" "The courts and the minor judiciary," and "Girls and..... More
Cat.No: 135805
Symposium: minority rights; California Law Review, volume 63, number 3, May 1975
Berkeley, CA: School of Law of the University of California, Berkeley, 1975. 596-844p., wraps mildly shelf worn, vol. 63, no. 3 of the California Law Review containing articles mainly on Chicano legal rights including UC Berkeley economist Paul S.Taylor's "Mexican migration and the 160-acre water limitation" regarding the fight for..... More
Cat.No: 153622
T.D.A. / The Day After the Jury's Verdict... / 4 P.M. Telegraph Avenue / ...Try The Government / in The Streets... and if at First You don't Succeed, Try, Try, again! [poster]
12.25x16.75 inch poster, small thumbtack holes at corners, light handling wear. Depicts a noose with splatter marks. Issued in preparation for the expected convictions of the Chicago Seven defendants. More
Cat.No: 249146
The TASC trip: Washington's Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime [handbill with comic strip]
San Francisco: Drug Treatment Project, [197-]. 8.5x14 inch handbill, printed both sides, lower right corner creased, otherwise minor edgewear. A comic strip featuring the misadventures of a heroin addict who is brutalized by police and signed up in prison for a methadone treatment program. After he is released, a hip..... More
Cat.No: 229142
The Telephone War Tax Protest. Join with your neighbors to sue the government to end the 10% phone war tax; to save your tax in a trust fund pending the outcome of the suit [handbill]
San Francisco: SF Telephone War Tax Protest, n.d. 8.5x11 inch handbill, printed both sides, very good. Describes a lawsuit by antiwar activists seeking to avoid the special tax passed in April 1966 to help cover the costs of Vietnam involvement. Attorneys for the effort were being coordinated by Lloyd McMurray..... More
Cat.No: 229146
To the honourable Thomas White, Minister of the Interior [petition of dissatisfied Temperance Colonization Society scripholders]
Toronto: 1886. Two-page printed petition on a single folded sheet; 8.25x13.25 inches, horizontally fold-creased, with some splitting at the ends of the folds. Not found in OCLC as of February 2019. The Temperance Colonization Society, established in 1881, sought to establish an alcohol-free community on the prairie. The TCS obtained..... More
Cat.No: 234731
Tribal power emasculation? Infractions by nonmember Indians
n.p. [1979-?]. [16p.], 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled together at upper left, very good. Anonymously written discussion of the legal issues regarding tribal criminal jurisdiction over nonmember Indians. Undated, but the latest reference cited in the footnotes is from 1979. More
Cat.No: 233140
Una guia hacia la capacitacion juridica; descipcion del sistema juridico de los Estados Unidos Americanos
San Francisco: State Bar of California, 1994. 61p., 5.5x8.5 inches, text in Spanish, very good first edition booklet in stapled printed wraps. Outreach to Spanish-speaking civilians. More
Cat.No: 95083
Union democracy in action [five issues]
New York: Union Democracy in Action, 1961-63. Five issues of the rank and file reform newsletter; 4 to 16 pages per issue, 9x12 inches; one issue stained and worn, otherwise good to very good. Numbers present are 3, 4, 7, 8 and 9. Coverage of cases related to union democracy..... More
Cat.No: 210875
Union democracy in action [twelve issues]
New York: Union Democracy in Action, 1961-64. Twelve issues of the rank and file reform newsletter; 4 to 20 pages per issue, 9x12 inches; first issue folded with a closed edge tear, another with pen notation, otherwise generally very good. Numbers present are 1, 4, 6-15. Coverage of cases related..... More
Cat.No: 250050
Universal Unconditional Amnesty
n.p. Amnesty Committee of the East Bay chapter, Winter Soldier Organization, [1973]. 6p., 7x8.5 inches, very good. Pamphlet advocating amnesty for all draft resisters, deserters, and others who strove to avoid fighting for an imperialist cause in Vietnam. More
Cat.No: 217775
Ustav Organizatsii Ob'edinennykh Natsii i Statut Mezhdunarodnogo Suda [Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice]
New York: United Nations; International Court of Justice, 1946. 72p., staplebound booklet, text in Russian, mild handling wear and toning. More
Cat.No: 217007
Utahns for Compassionate Use [brochure]
no place: Utahns for Compassionate Use, [2002]. Six-panel brochure folded to 3.5x8.5 inches, bullet-points, chronological history, contact numbers, addresses and web sites, very good. More
Cat.No: 225425
Verdicto del Tribunal Internacional de los Pueblos Indigenas y Naciones Oprimidas en los EEUU
San Francisco: AIM, 1992. 16p., one of 700 Spanish language copies, 8.5x11 inches, wraps. More
Cat.No: 74193
Wage and hour manual. A complete handbook and guide to federal and state regulation of wages, hours, and child labor, including full text of federal statutes and administrative regulations
Washington: The Bureau of National Affairs, 1948. various pagination (well over a thousand pages), original blue cloth binding. Wage and hour manual. Cumulative edition, 1949. More
Cat.No: 81905
[Wanted poster for a gambler who killed a Chinese laundryman in Lorain, Ohio; together with eight other wanted posters]
Lorain, OH: 1908. 8.5x11 inch wanted poster, with portrait of the wanted Raymond S. Conner and his teenaged wife Maud Jacobs; pasted to a tattered scrapbook page; also present are eight other wanted posters from assorted police departments and agencies around the country, including Pinkerton's Detective Agency, for various other..... More
Cat.No: 255121