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.
10,000 GIs killed in Vietnam since the peace talks started...
New York: Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, [1969]. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. Main speaker listed is Kathleen Cleaver, together with Dave Dellinger and Howard Zinn; chairman is Ossie Davis. More
Cat.No: 267949
1978 Program Committee Report: Beth Eden Baptist Church Magnolia &...
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
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
1998-1999 Guide to historically black colleges & universities
Detroit: General Motors and Johnson Publishing, 1998. Paperback. 119p., trade paperback, lightly worn wraps, More
Cat.No: 118469
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. 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...
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
The A.S.N.L.H. (The Association for the Study of Negro Life...
Washington: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and The Associated Publishers, [1947]. Pamphlet. Small 8-panel brochure, year penciled at bottom of rear panel, otherwise very good. Introduction to the organization founded by Carter G. Woodson and others in 1915. Lists its publications, achievements, leaders, and its..... More
Cat.No: 283930
Abolish slums! Build decent homes in 5th Ward! [handbill]
Buffalo, NY: Negro Economic Association, [1936]. 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, "Buffalo, 1936" neatly penned in bottom..... More
Cat.No: 277076
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
Aché presents... a special evening celebrating the long-awaited recording debut...
Berkeley: Aché & La Peña, [1992]. Single 8.5x11 inch handbill printed both sides on pink stock, front side announcing the show by Oakland performer Oji and the back side a calendar of Aché events, two horizontal fold creases for mailing else good. The performance was for the release of her..... More
Cat.No: 262612
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
Acid test of democracy
New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1940. Pamphlet. Six-panel brochure, very good but for penciled note on rear panel stating "Recd. Jan. 1940." Revised March 1941. Introduces the NAACP's work for full citizenship rights; title refers to the treatment of African Americans. More
Cat.No: 283574
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
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 Liberation Day Demonstration / San Francisco, May 27, 1972...
[San Francisco]: 1972. Sticker. 11x3.75 inch sticker, unused, mild handling. More
Cat.No: 284342
African-Americans (Books By & About); Waiting for Godot Books
Hadley, MA: no pub. no date. Pamphlet. 96p., 5.5x8.5 inches; slightly shelfworn wraps, rubberstamp on inside cover, else in very good condition. Special List Twelve. More
Cat.No: 278914
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. 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....
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-Americans in American history: brief biographies of nine outstanding men...
New York: Pepsi-Cola, [1970?]. [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. More
Cat.No: 106411
Against All Odds: The Healing Powers of Art あらゆる困難に立ち向かって...
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
Alabama Blacks in the Mirror: January 1975 [cover title Alabama...
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
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Mosley, David; artist
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