Rhythm an' hardtimes
Allen, Lillian
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.
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
Detroit: General Motors and Johnson Publishing, 1998. Paperback. 119p., trade paperback, lightly worn wraps, More
Cat.No: 118469
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
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
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
Buffalo, NY: Negro Economic Association, [193-]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch handbill with cartoon of a man sitting in a dilapidated apartment (A sign on the wall says "A man's home is his castle," but with rent bill in hand, he replies "Says you!"). Mild toning, some foxing at upper left corner..... More
Cat.No: 294198
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
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
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
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
Paris: Présence Africaine, 1958. Paperback. xii, 418p. + scattered plates, slightly edgeworn wraps with title "Africa Seen by American Negroes," spine creased, front wrap beginning to detach, leaves unopened, else good condition. Introduction by Alioune Diop, with contributions by St. Clair Drake, William Hansberry, Rayford Logan, W. E. B. Du..... More
Cat.No: 74833
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
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
[San Francisco]: 1972. Sticker. 11x3.75 inch sticker, unused, mild handling. More
Cat.No: 284342
San Francisco: Patrice Lumumba Publishers, 1978. 12p., tabloid format newspaper, evenly toned with minor wear. Nathan Hare on the Psychology of the Black Revolution, cover story on the Bakke case, unity program for a British Pan-Afrikan group, and more. More
Cat.No: 195027
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
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
Mililani, HI: Kane Publications, 1998. Magazine. 84p., wraps. Various word games, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 106411
Hakone: The Hakone Open-Air Museum, 1994. Paperback. 86p. exhibition catalogue, 9x111.75 inches. Corners lightly bumped, else very good. Text in English and Japanese. Illustrated profusely with color reproductions of artwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yayoi Kusama, Eva Hesse, Frida Kahlo, Robert Mapplethorpe, and others. More
Cat.No: 279088
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
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
Montreal: Kersplebedeb :: Bottomfish Blues, 2014. Paperback. 158p., pictorial wraps, photos., illus., as new. More
Cat.No: 293226
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
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
New York: American Documentary Films, [1970]. Pamphlet. 38p., stapled wraps, 4x8.75 inches, very good condition. Advertises leftist films on topics including the Vietnam War, labor history, women's liberation, Black liberation, Mexican-Americans, and much more. More
Cat.No: 275802
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