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.
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
2nd Annual Bob Marley Day, Febraury 6, 1983. Reggae Road...
Los Angeles: Reggae for Cultural Awareness :: Co-sponsored by Marcus Garvey School, 1983. Pamphlet. 19p., 8.5x11 inch staplebound wraps; illus., photos., slight rust on inner staples, else in very good condition. "The purpose of Reggae for Cultural Awareness is to create and stimulate a better understanding of Reggae music by..... More
Cat.No: 316454
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
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; 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
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
Activist: The Newsletter and Discussion Journal of the New York...
New York: W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of New York, 1967. Newsletter. [16]p., 8.5 x 11 sheets stapled at upper left, very good condition. Also included is a three-sheet packet announcing an East Coast outing and conference, and a three-page newsletter of the NYC Area Council. Cover story on the DuBois Clubs'..... More
Cat.No: 306602
The Activist: Vol. II No. 1 (July 26, 1970)
Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Youth Against War and Fascism, 1970. Newspaper. 16p., folded tabloid format newspaper, some toning, otherwise very good condition. Includes an interview with Kevin Blackford of the National Committee to Combat fascism, an organizing branch of the Black Panther Party. Cover celebrates the 17th anniversary of the storming..... More
Cat.No: 302961
Africa forum: focus on Somalia. Volume 1, no. 1 November...
Tucson: Theresa McGriff / Peace Operation Somalia, 1993. 4 panel newsletter, 7x8.5 inches, small map, very good. First issue of a newsletter focusing on Somalia published through the Univ. of Arizona's African American Cultural Center. More
Cat.No: 106051
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
African National Congress: 75th anniversary celebration... Souvenir program
Oakland: ANC 75th Anniversary Committee, 1987. Pamphlet. [12p.], staplebound booklet, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Program for an event that featured Gil Scott Heron in concert. Sponsor list includes a who's-who of community, radical and labor organizations. More
Cat.No: 239237
Afrikan liberation day '80; Saturday May 24, 10 A M....
Oakland: Black United Front, 1980. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch leaflet for the event, light handling wear else very good condition. "Hail the people's victory of Zimbabwe, continue the struggle." Cartoon showing Apartheid being overcome. More
Cat.No: 42749
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
Afro-centric xwordz & puzzlez; crosswords & puzzles based on African...
Mililani, HI: Kane Publications, 1998. Magazine. 84p., wraps. Various word games, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 106411
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
Amazon nation or Aryan nation; white women and the coming...
Montreal: Kersplebedeb :: Bottomfish Blues, 2014. Paperback. 158p., pictorial wraps, photos., illus., as new. More
Cat.No: 293226
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
America's tenth man: a brief survey of the Negro's part...
Atlanta: Conference on Education and Race Relations, 1937. Pamphlet. 15p., fifteenth edition, stapled wraps, 6x9 inches, wraps lightly worn, touch of rust to staples, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 196124
American Labor History; Race and Ethnicity in the Working Class
Somerville: New England Free Press, [1973]. Pamphlet. 48p., wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps lightly worn and soiled, staples slightly rusted, else in very good condition. Short book reviews and bibliography. A Radical America Pamphlet. More
Cat.No: 59935
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