American Labor & Radicalism
This section includes books (both nonfiction and fiction) as well as ephemera related to labor unions and activism, grassroots political organization in fields such as environmentalism and free speech, and the underground press. Our holdings range from academic historical works and labor-themed novels to original leaflets and pamphlets.
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A.J. Lipnosky Memorial Tenants' Union newsletter. No. 1
Berkeley, CA: A.J. Lipnosky Memorial Tenants' Union, [ca. 1973]. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet printed both sides, fold creases and some yellowing, lightly foxed else good condition. Not found in OCLC as of 11/2020. Newsletter for tenants of properties owned by Andy Lipnosky. Lists various problems his tenants have had, urges..... More
Cat.No: 142016
A.J. Muste Memorial Institute essay series, No. 8
New York: A. J. Muste Memorial Institute, n.d. [mid-1980s]. 51p., staplebound upright 9x3.8 inch wraps, top corner of front wrap dog-eared else very good. A. J. Muste Memorial Institute essay series, no. 8. Includes: On wars of liberation / War Resisters' International -- Gandhi on violent struggles / Devi Prasad..... More
Cat.No: 206177
A3M 2000: a directory with personal statements
Mountain View, CA: Pacific Studies Center, 2000. 28p., staplebound pamphlet, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Issued after a 30th reunion of activists from the April Third Movement, which had protested Stanford University's role in the Vietnam War. Includes many participants' personal statements about their memories of activism and their later lives..... More
Cat.No: 252950
AALC; African-American Labor Center/CAAT; Centre Afro-Americain du Travail
Washington: the Center, 1985. 36p., 8.5x11 inches, illus., half in English, half in French, on the Center's programs in the US and Africa, very good in wraps. More
Cat.No: 141481
About AIDS in the Workplace [pamphlet]
South Deerfield, MA: A Scriptographic Book by Channing L. Bete Co., 1990. 16p. includes covers, 5.5x8 inches, illustrated with simple line drawings, very good informational booklet in stapled brown pictorial wraps. Originally published in 1987. Updated. More
Cat.No: 267803
About face! The U.S. Servicemen's Fund newsletter. Vol. 2 no. 3 (April/May 1972)
New York: USSF, 1972. Single issue of the 6-page newsletter, tabloid format but on better paper, fold-creased for mailing; also included is a fundraising letter for the USSF co-authored by Angela Davis, Phil Berrigan and George Smith. More
Cat.No: 163459
About face! The U.S. Servicemen's Fund newsletter. Vol. 2 no. 3 (April/May 1972)
New York: USSF, 1972. Single issue of the 6-page newsletter, tabloid format but on better paper, fold-creased for mailing. Includes excerpts from various GI movement newspapers around the country. More
Cat.No: 168124
About face! The U.S. Servicemen's Fund newsletter. Vol. 2 no. 3 (April/May 1972)
New York: USSF, 1972. Single issue of the 6-page newsletter, tabloid format but on better paper, fold-creased for mailing, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 195589
About Face! [GI movement newspaper disguised as an issue of The Banner, publication of the 193rd Infantry Brigade]
Madison, WI: 1984. 16p. tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, evenly toned. The cover page has the masthead of The Banner, an official Army newspaper for troops in Panama, but the contents are devoted to critiques of US policy in Latin America, with US troops serving or potentially serving in the..... More
Cat.No: 262107
About Mohegan Colony. Crompond, New York
Crompond, NY: [1928-1936]. Four panel brochure, 5x8.5 inches, worn and fold-creased, bottom corner dog-eared, faint dampstain along folded edge, a few spots of foxing to front. Introduction to the anarchist colony founded in 1923 by Harry Kelly. Mohegan was built around a Modern School and shared many staff members and..... More
Cat.No: 262164
ACAB news [two issues: 3, 4]
Guelph: the zine, 2010. Two issues of the Canadian anarchist zine; title stands for All Cops Are Bastards. Length is 18, 43 pages respectively; 5.5x8.5 inches. More
Cat.No: 248605
ACORN: Seeing to it that "The People Shall Rule"
Little Rock, Arkansas: Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now, n.d. Single sheet folded to make six-panel brochure, slightly misfolded else good condition. Early brochure for the organization that still exists, under the slightly different name of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. More
Cat.No: 131598
Act now or forever rest in peace!
[Pittsburgh, PA]: Rotten Propaganda, [1994?]. Newspaper. [12p.], tabloid newspaper format, paper toned, folded as issued, 11.5x16 inches. Aimed at the political punk scene, includes information on political prisoners, much on food and vegetarianism and the back page is devoted to Food Not Bombs. Not found in OCLC as of 3/2021..... More
Cat.No: 264144
Action for Peace [two issues of the student protest newsletter, issued after the Kent State shootings]
New York: Action for Peace (Columbia University), 1970. Two issues of the 8.5x11 inch newsletter, 6 and 8 pages, sheets stapled together at upper left corner, one dated May 7 1970 (cover sheet rather toned) and the other undated but issued around the same time, with a depiction of the..... More
Cat.No: 196795
Action Guide of the IWO Health and Social Security Campaign. No. 1 (January 1946)
New York: International Workers Order, 1946. [8p.], horizontally folded as issued, evenly toned, otherwise very good. For organizers working on promotion of the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bills, S. 1606 and 1050. More
Cat.No: 266158
Active Transformation: a direct action anarchist newspaper [five issues]
Lansing, MI: A.T. Collective, 1998-2000. Five issues of the tabloid format newspaper, all with horizontal fold, mild toning. Issues present are vol. 2 nos. 1, 2, 5; vol. 3 nos. 2 and 3. More
Cat.No: 244489
Advance [six issues]
Gary, Indiana; Birmingham, Alabama: Trade Union Action League National Organizing Committee, 1979-1984. Six issues of the newspaper, fold crease, earlier issues on newsprint are toned else generally good condition. Issues present are vol. 1 nos. 1-3, vol. 2 no. 1 and 2, and vol. 5 no. 5. More
Cat.No: 244484
[Advertising card for Ideal Tooth Powder, with photographic portrait of Terence V. Powderly of the Knights of Labor]
Philadelphia: Vail Brothers, [188-]. Stiff card, slightly larger than 4x6.25 inches, with Powderly's portrait (a sepia photograph from the negative) on one side and text about Ideal Tooth Powder and Ideal Quinine and Sulphur Toilet Soap on the other. Plate measures 3.5x5 inches; his moustache about 1.3 inches from left..... More
Cat.No: 212110
The Advocate of Peace and Universal Brotherhood. Vol. 1 no. 7 (July, 1846)
Worcester, MA: Elihu Burritt, 1846. pp. 153-176, wraps bound with thread, pages remain uncut at the top; front cover has a faded area, otherwise mild handling wear and foxing. When Burritt, the "Learned Blacksmith," took over The Advocate of Peace, the publication of the American Peace Society, he renamed it..... More
Cat.No: 255963
The Advocate [eight issues]
New York: American Veterans Committee, Berkeley Chapter #1, 1946-47. 8 issues of the mimeographed 8.5x11 inch newsletter published by the Berkeley chapter of the left-wing veterans' group; all from before the AVC's expulsion of communists in 1948. Issues present are vol. 1 nos. 4-6, 12-15, 17. Three or four pages..... More
Cat.No: 181872
AFC Spotlight: Vol. 1, Book 3, Spring Edition
Pasadena: American Friends Service Committee, [c1979]. 7p. 8.5x11 inches, wraps secured by folding, creased from being folded in half for mailing, address label on rear wrap else very good newsletter printed on cream stiff stock. Cover story on Iran and Afghanistan. More
Cat.No: 251220
Affirmative action and discrimination: Asian and Pacific Americans in Higher Education. Proceedings of the 9th annual conference of APAHE, Radisson/Miyako Hotel, San Francisco, California, March 8-10, 1996
San Francisco: APAHE, 1996. 156p., paperback, very good. Keynote address by Dana Takagi. More
Cat.No: 260194
AFL-CIO / Solidarity Day / September 19, 1981 [pinback button and press pass]
n.p. (1981). 2.25 inch diameter pin, somewhat scuffed, together with an orange press pass in a plastic holder with metal clip on reverse. More
Cat.No: 259800
AFL-CIO Convention. October 23-26, 1995. New York City
New York: AFL-CIO, 1995. Cardboard Covers. Double cardstock folder with facing pockets, 11x9 inches folded, one pocket containing an oversize paperbound of 227p with color vignette chapter heads, the opposite pocket holding an 8.5x5.5 inch booklet labelled "1995 Resolutions, Book One", and a flyer (described below). The folder is wrinkled..... More
Cat.No: 257562