African American
This section includes literature by African American authors, as well as nonfiction works on related subjects, and the ephemera of political and social organizations ranging from the Black Panthers to the AME Church.
The 1928 and 1930 Comintern resolutions on the Black national...
Washington: Revolutionary Review Press, 1975. 39p. staplebound pamphlet, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. More
Cat.No: 22142
1985 San Francisco blues festival; September 14 & 15, the...
San Francisco: Blue Monday Foundation, 1985. 8p. illus. tabloid newspaper/program for the event, evenly toned, sticker scar on front wrap else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 150326
22nd Annual Mammoth Tea. Sunday, July 12, 1987. Beebe Memorial...
Oakland, CA: Beebe Memorial Cathedral, 1987. Staplebound. 40 pages, illustrations, wraps. 11 x 8.5 in. Very Good. Program and souvenir book for the annual fundraiser for the Oakland, CA church. Numerous portraits of church members and advertisements for Oakland, Berkeley, and other East Bay businesses. More
Cat.No: 301791
42nd Annual Session, Home and Foreign Mission District Association, Women's...
Oakland: Women's Auxiliary, 1988. 9.5x12 inch yellow folder printed black containing in pockets three 8.5x11 inch handbills, six 8.5x11 inch stapled sheets printed with information, a sermon and images and two 5.5x8.5 inch programs for the event. Pearlie Morgan was the President of the Auxiliary and Rev. Frank Poole was..... More
Cat.No: 213000
7th Annual Chester Himes black mystery writers conference and awards...
Oakland: the Program, 2002. Handbill. Folder with label logo, includes the 1st place winner of the Chester Himes Black Mystery Writing contest ("Mystery of the Smoked Herring" by 11th Grade Skyline High School student John Lo), a Himes chronology, a profile of Hugh Holton reprinted from the Sept. 29, 2000..... More
Cat.No: 199000
80 Years Later the Struggle Continues: 59th Annual Ohio Conference...
[Springfield, OH]: NAACP, [1989]. Pamphlet. [16]p., stapled wraps, 8.25x11 inches, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 316396
[9 handbills of the Teaching Assistants Association (TAA) Strike from...
Madison, WI: [Teaching Assistants' Association], c1970. Nine handbills pertaining to the TAA strike at the University of Wisconsin, Madison of 1970. All items are in very good condition. Founded in 1966, the TAA was the first independent graduate student union. They went on strike for the first time in 1970..... More
Cat.No: 325173
9th Annual Conference on Employment Discrimination and the Law; presented...
Los Angeles: the presenting organizations, 1979. 223 sheets, printed recto only, 8.5x11 inches, hole punched and inserted into a binder, application form included. More
Cat.No: 81426
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
The Ache Series Continues "...but then, she's Betty Carter" [handbill]
Berkeley: Ache/La Pena Cultural Center, 1991. Single 8.5x11 inch handbill printed one side only very good on yellow stock. Handbill publicizing the Ache film series showing of Michelle Parkerson's 1980 53 minute film, a portrait of the legendary jazz vocalist at La Pena on Wednesday, May 29th, 1991. More
Cat.No: 237339
Acracia: Edition 38
North Richmond, Australia: Anarchist Black Cross, [1975]. 19p., stapled wraps, 6.5x8 inches, illus., wraps lightly worn, small stain on first page, else very good condition. Bulletin of the anarchist prisoner support organization, with articles on Spanish prisoners under Franco, workers' self-management in Portugal, African-American anarchist prisoner Martin Sostre, and more..... More
Cat.No: 258354
Africa Freedom Day - April 15th [handbill]
Ann Arbor: African Students Association of the University of Michigan, [1970]. Double-sided 8.5x11 inch handbill of an event program; in very good condition. Event primarily focused on South Africa. More
Cat.No: 343266
Africa today: a quarterly review: Portugal and Africa: a new...
Denver: Africa Today Associates, 1974. 114p., 5.5x8.5 inches, some underlining and marginalia else very good in original stapled wraps. Letter to the editor from Dennis Brutus on page 100. More
Cat.No: 95057
African American Perspectives: The Lois Foster Exhibition of Boston Area...
Waltham, MA: Brandeis University, Office of Publications, 1993. Pamphlet. 28p., stapled wraps, 10.5x8 inches landscape format, profusely illus., very good exhibition catalog. More
Cat.No: 295130
The African World. Vol. IV no. 11 (Sept. 1975)
Washington DC: February First Movement, 1975. Tabloid format newspaper, 16p., evenly toned, some edgewear with closed edge tears. More
Cat.No: 344353
Afrikan Awakener: an organ of the Pan Afrikan Peoples' Organization...
San Francisco: Patrice Lumumba Publishers, 1978. 12p., tabloid format newspaper, evenly toned with minor wear. More
Cat.No: 345454
The Afro Solo Newsletter. San Francisco's African American Solo Performance...
San Francisco: Afro Solo, 1994. 6p. newsletter, 8.5x11 inches horizontal fold crease, otherwise very good. Announces upcoming performances including an appearance by Ruby Dee. More
Cat.No: 336457
Afro-American dance, Ed Howard's Cultural Center presents Gwen Lewis Company...
Oakland: [Gwen Lewis Company], [c197-?]. Pamphlet. [3]p., 5.5x8.5 inch folio pamphlet of a program; photo., slight wear on the corner, otherwise in very good condition. One part of the program is a performance piece dedicated to "focusing on the elements necessary in building a strong nation (referring to the new..... More
Cat.No: 314992
Afro-Americans in American history: brief biographies of nine outstanding men...
New York: Pepsi-Cola, [1970?]. Pamphlet. [12p] 4.75x6.75 inches, illustrated biographical sketches, creased vertically otherwise a very good pamphlet in stapled white pictorial wraps. Crispus Attucks, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass et al. More
Cat.No: 139782
Ahmed Evans must not die! [handbill]
New York: Committee to Save Ahmed Evans, [1970]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill, very good. Undated, but the receipt date of January 1970 has been penned on the blank verso. The issuing Committee appears to have consisted of sympathetic students at Alternate University in NYC. Ahmed Evans was a Black nationalist..... More
Cat.No: 296111
Aid victims of racist oppression in South Africa
New York: Alexander Defense Committee, [1966?]. Six panel brochure, 3.5x8.5 inches, very good. On the case of Dr Neville Alexander and other victims of apartheid in South Africa. Paul B. Boutelle was the chair of the Committee, members included Dave Dellinger, A.J. Muste, Carl Braden, Anne Braden, Ossie Davis, Ruby..... More
Cat.No: 334658
Aid victims of racist oppression in South Africa
New York: Alexander Defense Committee, 1966. Six panel brochure, 3.5x8.5 inches, very good; laid in is a printed letter from congressman John Conyers, Jr. dated April 1966, asking the reader to contribute. On the case of Dr Neville Alexander and other victims of apartheid in South Africa. Paul B. Boutelle..... More
Cat.No: 334659
The Alexander and Sorro-Milanese families invite you to a buonissmo...
San Francisco: [1976]. 8.5x11 inch handbill, very good, announcing a fundraising dinner to benefit the People's World newspaper and the presidential campaign of Gus Hall and Jarvis Tyner. The families involved were those of Kendra Alexander and Guiliana “Huli” Milanese and Bill Sorro, all prominent Bay Area Communist Party members..... More
Cat.No: 338679
America - Love it enough to change it
Philadelphia: National Organization for an American Revolution, [1984]. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, 8.5x11 inches, contact info for the San Francisco branch of NOAR rubberstamped at the end. By James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs' organization. Beginning with a portion of Langston Hughes' poem "Make America America Again," laments the results of..... More
Cat.No: 260317
American Anti-Slavery Reporter, nos. 1-8 1834
Westport, CT: Negro Universities Press, 1970. Hardcover. Various pagination, very good condition. Reprint. Negro periodicals in the United States, series 2. More
Cat.No: 346545

























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