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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A & U: America's AIDS magazine; vol. 13, #2, issue #112, February 2004
Albany: Art & Understanding, Inc. 2004. Magazine. 32p., 8.25x11 inches, illustrations, photos, services, features, ads, articles, very good glossy magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover story "The Parkers' Monique Gets Spirited About AIDS" More
Cat.No: 188481
A & U: America's AIDS magazine; vol. 6, #6, issue #33, July 1997
Albany: Art & Understanding, Inc. 1997. Magazine. 64p., 8.25x11 inches, illustrations, photos, services, features, ads, articles, very good glossy magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover story "Sapphire: Pushing the Envelope" More
Cat.No: 188479
15 years of Radical America: an anthology
Somerville, MA: Radical America, 1982. Special issue of the journal (Vol. 16, no. 3), 128p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches. Includes reprints of articles by C.L.R. James, Mari Jo Buhle, Noel Ignatin, Herbert Marcuse, Manning Marable, Martin Glaberman, and many more. Includes material from the publication's years as an SDS journal. More
Cat.No: 134838
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
The 1974 Black music calendar
Bloomington: The Black Music Center/School of Music, Indiana University, 1973. Spiral_bound. [26p] 7.25x10.25 inches, monthly calendar and on facing pages lists of first, birthdays, composers etc., selected bibliography, very good, stiff card stock in spiral-bound black pictorial covers with a hole drilled at top for hanging on wall. More
Cat.No: 183393
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
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
1st New England regional black poetry & photography anthology 1975; in Drum, spring 1975, vol. 6, no. 2
Amherst: DRUM, 1975. 86p., illus. with black/white photos, dedication by Sonia Sanchez, 7x9.5 inches, wraps with small closed tear at base of spine. More
Cat.No: 62811
20 years on the MOVE
Philadelphia: MOVE, 1996. 72p. including photos, wraps. On MOVE's history and confrontations with the Philadelphia police, with updated material on Mumia Abu-Jamal's case. More
Cat.No: 93670
25 years on the MOVE; a revised, updated and expanded edition of the 1991 publication "20 Years on the MOVE"
Philadelphia: MOVE, [1991]. 60p., wraps. On Philadelphia's MOVE organization and the hell they were put through at the hands of the police. More
Cat.No: 83526
351st Field Artillery, AEF 1918, reunion, August 20, 21, 22, 1942
Pittsburgh: the 351st F. A. 1942. 28p., 6x9 inches, centerfold of b&w photos, ads, very good booklet/program in silver and blue pictorial stapled wraps with drawing of a black soldier in Doughboy outfit. The reunion program includes a list of the 351st members who did the work for the event... More
Cat.No: 43850
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
A-2 Stand. Volume 1, no. 9 (September 26, 1964)
San Francisco, CA: Freedom House, Area-2 Organizing Center, 1964. 8p., 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at upper left, very good. Newsletter published by a major group opposing the redevelopment of the Fillmore district, a devastating chapter of SF history that drastically reduced the property-owning African Ammerican community in the city and... More
Cat.No: 135749
A.L.O.R.D.E. Collective: African American Lesbians Organized to Renew Dignity and Empowerment
Detroit: the Collective, [199-]. Six-panel brochure, very good, on lavender paper. Introduction to the organization, "Providing peer support and health education for lesbians of African descent in metro-Detroit." Inspired by Audre Lorde. More
Cat.No: 215182
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
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. Includes excerpts from various GI movement newspapers around the country. More
Cat.No: 168124
Aché: a free publication for Black lesbians, May 1989, vol. 1, no. 4
Berkeley: Aché, 1989. Magazine. 24p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, photos, very good broken run of the magazine in stapled white pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 184215
Aché: a free publication for black lesbians, vol.1, number 3, April 1989
Albany, CA: Aché, 1989. 11 x17 inch poster for this issue of Aché featuring its cover art and a quote by editor Lisbet Tellersen. "Precisely because we fit into no specific mold, we must turn to ourselves and each other to create our own self-definition." More
Cat.No: 164199
Aché: a free publication for black lesbians, vol.1, number 6, July 1989
Albany, CA: Aché, 1989. 11 x 17 inch poster advertising this issue features cover art by Sarita Johnson-Calvo. More
Cat.No: 164203
Aché: a free publication for black lesbians, vol.1, number 8, September 1989
Albany, CA: Aché, 1989. 11 x 17 inch poster for this issue of Aché features cover art and a quote by Tobe Melora Correal. "I love the shapes of us . . . that which is full and soft and beckons to be sung to." More
Cat.No: 164205
Free all political prisoners / Solidarity with the Afroamerican people / August 18 [poster]
Morante, Rafael, artist
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