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.
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1969 Negro historical calendar; famous Americans and their significant contributions to the history of the United States
New York: Seagram Distillers Company, 1968. 13 sheet calendat (cover + 12 months, 14x20 inches, cover printed two sides, others one side only, each page illus. with a notable African American personage, some abrasions and creasing to front wrap, rolled. More
Cat.No: 160725
1975 53rd Annual Session California Baptist State Convention: Oct. 27, 1975 - Oct. 31, 1975; souvenir program
Oakland: Antioch Baptist Church, 1975. Magazine. 37p., 8.5x11 inches, photos, ads, magazine format program, small pink stain on the cover otherwise a very good souvenir booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. The 1975 convention was held at the Antioch Baptist Church in Oakland and at the Oakland Hyatt House. More
Cat.No: 175167
1978 Program Committee Report: Beth Eden Baptist Church Magnolia & Tenth Streets, Oakland, California
Oakland: The Church, 1978. 54 sheets (printed both sides on many but only numbered on recto) 8.5x11 inches, tables, reports, recommendations, very good in black plastic copy-shop-bound blue pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 224589
1984 12th annual San Francisco blues festival; free official souvenir program, September 8 & 9, the great meadow, Fort Mason
San Francisco: Blue Monday Foundation, 1984. 12p. illus. tabloid newspaper/program for the event. More
Cat.No: 150325
1985 San Francisco blues festival; September 14 & 15, the great meadow, Fort Mason
San Francisco: Blue Monday Foundation, 1985. 8p. illus. tabloid newspaper/program for the event. More
Cat.No: 150326
1998-1999 guide to historically black colleges & univeristies
Detroit: General Motors and Johnson Publishing, 1998. Paperback. 119p., wraps. More
Cat.No: 118469
2020 Calendar honoring the Black Panther Party breakfast program
n.p. BPP Alimni Committee, 2019. Wall calendar, still sealed in original plastic, with photos from the time. More
Cat.No: 247698
25 years on the MOVE a revised, updated and expanded edition of the 1991 publication, "20 years on the MOVE"
Philadelphia: MOVE, 1997. Pamphlet. 72p., wraps, very good condition, 5.5x8.5 inches, photos, second printing. On MOVE's history and confrontations with the Philadelphia police, with updated material on Mumia Abu-Jamal's case. More
Cat.No: 70472
42nd Annual Session, Home and Foreign Mission District Association, Women's Auxiliary August 7-12, 1988, Theme: "Going up Together by God's Design" Acts: 3:1
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 program; Saturday,April 27, 2002 ... Oakland Museum of California
Oakland: the Program, 2002. 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 issue..... More
Cat.No: 199000
9th Annual Conference on Employment Discrimination and the Law; presented by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Los Angeles District Office; EEOC General Counsel Division, San Francisco Regional Office of General Counsel; Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and University of California at Los Angeles, School of Law, Saturday, December 1, 1979, at UCLA School of Law
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
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 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
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
Africa forum: focus on Somalia. Volume 1, no. 1 November / December, 1993
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: political and military councils, vol. 22, no. 1, Jan-Mar. Edward A. Hawley, executive editor
Denver: Africa Today Associates, 1975. 100p., 5.5x8.5 inches, lightly worn, beginning to tone along edges else very good in original stapled wraps. More
Cat.No: 95058
Africa today: a quarterly review: Portugal and Africa: a new day dawns, vol. 21, no. 4, fall. Edward A. Hawley, executive editor
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 History Month. Special issue of Dynamic, February-March 1990
New York: Young Communist League, 1990. 15p., newsprint magazine. Official bimonthly publication of the YCL junior branch of the CPUSA. Articles in this issue include Michael McGarry on the 30th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins, a review of the movie "Glory," and unrelated pieces such as Jim Badger on the..... More
Cat.No: 123322
African National Congress: 75th anniversary celebration
Oakland: ANC 75th Anniversary Committee, 1987. [12p.], staplebound wraps, 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
African-American art; 20th century masterworks, November 18, 1993 - February 12, 1994
New York: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 1993. Paperback. 32p. catalog, 8.5x6 inches, coated paperstock throughout, profusely illus. with color reproductions of works for the exhibition, wraps. Romare Bearden cover; the show represented 24 artists. More
Cat.No: 104811
An African-American Interpretation of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett [leaflet]
San Francisco: Unnameable Productions, [1980s?]. Single 8.5x5.5 inch landscape format leaflet/card printed both sides, very good black on tan stock. Directed by Laurie Winestock, produced by Ramon Calhoun starring Tim Ayembeko, Robert Tillman, Brad Spinks & Michael Spratt at Exit Theater. No mention of email or web sites so pre-1990s..... More
Cat.No: 239069
Afrikan awakener: an organ of the Pan Afrikan Peoples' Organization. Vol. 3, no. 22 (July/August 1978)
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
Afrikan liberation day '80; Saturday May 24, 10 A M, this year at: Arroyo Park, Bancroft and 73rd Ave., Oakland, California
Oakland: Black United Front, 1980. 8.5x11 inch leaflet for the event. "Hail the people's victory of Zimbabwe, continue the struggle." Cartoon showing Apartheid being overcome. More
Cat.No: 42749
Afrikan Student Literary Magazine. Book III: In the Beginning. Legacies '90
Berkeley: ASLM, 1990. 45p., staplebound wraps, very good. Published by students at UC Berkeley. More
Cat.No: 220440
Afrikan Student Literary Magazine. Book IV
Berkeley: ASLM, [1991-?]. 67p., staplebound wraps, light handling wear, very good. Published by students at UC Berkeley. More
Cat.No: 220442