New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1940. Pamphlet. Six-panel brochure, very good but for penciled note on rear panel stating "Recd. Jan. 1940." Revised March 1941. Introduces the NAACP's work for full citizenship rights; title refers to the treatment of African Americans. More
Cat.No: 283574
New York: Civil Rights Congress of New York, 1947. Newsletter. Two-page mimeographed newsletter; 8.5x14 inches, minor toning, very good. Not found in Danky's "African-American Newspapers and Periodicals." Newsletter for local members of the CRC, asking them to take action to "Get Congress moving on the anti-lynch bill." Outlines the provisions..... More
Cat.No: 277802
Birmingham, AL: The Mirror, 1975. Magazine. [20p]8.5x11 inches, photos, articles, news, ads, resources, events, lightly-foxed magazine in stapled white pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 206128
Swarthmore, PA: Albatross, 1961. 10p., staplebound booklet, minor toning and handling. Stapled inside the front cover is a dittoed note that begins, "Dear friends, We have been given your name as a leader of the Southern sit-in movement. Our magazine wants to print letters from sit-in students so that we..... More
Cat.No: 249893
New York: Fellowship of Reconciliation; Congress of racial Equality, 1950. Pamphlet. Four-panel mimeographed brochure, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. After public swimming pools in Washington DC and St. Louis had been desegregated, there were racial clashes that led to their closures. The workshops are described as community-building efforts to reopen them..... More
Cat.No: 283142
New York: National Negro Congress, 1943. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, 8.5x11 inches, very good. The goals of the conference were to facilitate the defeat of fascism through the "full use of man power" by eliminating racist barriers to employment and freeing sharecroppers to grow food instead of cotton; to support full..... More
Cat.No: 284091
New York: Council for Social Action, of the Congregational Christian Churches, 1945. 48p., very good in wraps with a photo of Joe Louis in uniform on the front; cover story by Hortense Powdermaker. The issue, devoted to ''significant intercultural and interracial experiments" includes material on Jewish Americans and African Americans..... More
Cat.No: 145335
Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1961. Two-sheet 8.5x11 inch press release, punch-holed and stapled. On the American Anthropological Association's repudiation of racism. Report L-29. More
Cat.No: 138850
Sacramento: Office of the Attorney General, Community and Consumer Affairs Office, 1988. Paperback. viii, 130p., paperback, 8.5x11 inches. Light rubbing to spine, else very good. More
Cat.No: 287003
[San Francisco?]: n. pub. [1983]. 8.5x11 inch printed sheet with quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and a list of participants, including Angela Davis, Decca Truehaft (Jessica Mitford), Nina Serrano, Teatro Latino and many others, lightly toned else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 162546
Chicago: Empak Publishing Company, 1990. 32p., illus., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps worn else very good condition. Black History Series #4. Educational pamphlet with short bios of Du Bois, Garvey, King, Hamer, Randolph and others. More
Cat.No: 132997
San Francisco: NCLR/National Center for ZLesbian Rights, 1994. Six-panel folded brochure, 8.5x11 inches, details for six "designs" for a better world for lesbians, photos, financial report, staff, very good on heavy stock. More
Cat.No: 220696
New York: Committee to Retain Gilgoff and Rosenbaum in Our School System, [1952]. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, 8.5x11 inches, creased from having been folded for mailing; "Academic freedom" and "1952" penned on front cover. "A Negro, Henry Fields, was shot and killed by a policeman in Brownsville after a minor auto..... More
Cat.No: 279796
New York: Catholic Interracial Council, [1942]. Pamphlet. 11 p. staplebound pamphlet, toned strip along the bottom; year of receipt (1943) penciled at bottom of the front cover, which has a strip of toning. Also included is an 8-page pamphlet introducing the Catholic Interracial Council's achievements, with uneven toning. Founded in..... More
Cat.No: 283791
New York, NY: Civil Rights Congress, 1950. Magazine. 30p., wraps, 8x11 inches, very good with light handling wear. Cover depicts one man whispering into the ear of another, with caption "Will America become a land of whispers?" The black & red-on-white cover background is a pastiche of Time Magazine format..... More
Cat.No: 142882
Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1955. Staplebound. 116p., second printing, very good in wraps. More
Cat.No: 39591
Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1955. Staplebound. 116p., second printing, name penned at bottom of first page, otherwise very good in wraps. More
Cat.No: 196641
New York: Civil Rights Congress, 1953. Newsletter. Four issues of the mimeographed newsletter; 8.5x11 inches, faintly creased from having been folded for mailing, the first issue with an additional vertical crease and minor toning. Updates on the activities of the organization, including work on police brutality and the cases of..... More
Cat.No: 284969
Los Angeles: NLCC/National Latino Communications Center, 1992. Six-panel newsletter folded to 8.5x11 inches, photos, stills, reports, advisors, production team etc. very good on heavy slick stock. First of a planned series of newsletters reporting on the progress of the Center's project of at least 4 episodes of a series covering..... More
Cat.No: 234200
New York: American Civil LIberties Union, 1956-1970. Magazine. Forty one issues of the newsletter, various pagination, averaging around 4-6 pages each, First 14 issues are 11x12.75 inches, the rest are 12.5x11 inches, folded once for mailing, all with worn wraps and address on rear wrap, some toning, else generally good..... More
Cat.No: 264867
New York: Civil Rights Congress, 1949. Pamphlet. Two mimeographed 8.5x14 inch sheets stapled at the upper left; minor handling, a couple of names underlined in red pencil. On official complicity in the Peekskill Riots. "For the second time in eight days, responsible officials - among them Governor Dewey, Westchester District..... More
Cat.No: 277275
New York: Civil Rights Congress, 1949. Newsletter. Two-page mimeographed newsletter; 8.5x14 inches, horizontal crease from folding, "Aug. 1949" penciled at bottom edge. Not found in Danky's "African-American Newspapers and Periodicals." This issue is devoted to Peekskill, where "the lynchers were out on August 27th" (three days earlier), in an effort..... More
Cat.No: 277798
New York: Civil Rights Congress, 1949. Newsletter. Two issues of the mimeographed newsletter; the earlier issue, unnumbered but dated 8/30, is two 8.5x14 inch sheets stapled at the top; creased from folding; the other issue, 5 pages, is 8.5x11 inches, some toning at the bottom, otherwise very good. Not found..... More
Cat.No: 277797
Winston-Salem, NC: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, 1995. 44m [6]p., french-fold wraps, 6.5x9 inches, illus., wraps lightly worn and soiled, red marker line on first page else very good condition. Catalogue for the exhibit Civil Rights Now, held at the Southwestern Center for Contemporary Art from January 28-April 15, 1995..... More
Cat.No: 265806
New York: Civil Rights Congress, 1951. Handbill. Single 8.5x11 inch mimeographed sheet, creased along right edge and previously folded for mailing, old staple hole at upper left corner. "Communist Negroes" written in red pencil at top. Dated July 18, 1951. "Harlem is still chuckling over the way Claudia Jones, Negro..... More
Cat.No: 287570
