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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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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
ACAB news [three issues: 3, 4, 5]
Guelph: the zine, 2010-2011. Pamphlet. Three issues of the Canadian anarchist zine; title stands for All Cops Are Bastards. Length is 18, 43, and 23 pages respectively; 5.5x8.5 inches, stapled wraps, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 248605
The ACAB Press: No. 2, July 19, 2020; FOP #5...
[Philadelphia]: ACAB Press, 2020. Pamphlet. Single sheet, printed both sides, 8.5x11 inches, fold-creased else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 274153
ACLU Literature List February 1970
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1970. Pamphlet. [8]p., stapled wraps, 4x9 inches, very good condition. Sheet with errata and newly added titles laid in. More
Cat.No: 284167
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...
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 for Today (June 24, 1947)
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
Action Guide of the IWO Health and Social Security Campaign...
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
An Address. The State Central Committee of the Peoples' Party...
Little Rock, Arkansas: Peoples' Party, [1894]. Handbill. 5.75x10 inch handbill, neatly creased from folding, evenly toned with a tiny edge chip. Lists instances of alleged electoral fraud in the past election, congratulating the state's populists for holding their own regardless. Suggests that populists turned away from the polls in the..... More
Cat.No: 275101
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 brochure for the anarchist journal Black Rose]
Boston, MA: [Black Rose Lectures and Learning], [1979. Pamphlet. Four panel brochure, 5.5x7 inches, illus., very good condition. Celebrates the first year of publishing and asks readers to renew their subscriptions. Not to be confused with the journal of the same name published by the Black Rose Collective in Somerville..... More
Cat.No: 270751
[Advertising card for Ideal Tooth Powder, with photographic portrait of...
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...
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...
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...
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
Red neck
Coleman, McAlister and Stephen Raushenbush
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