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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.
New Arrivals
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 & 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 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
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 presents... a special evening celebrating the long-awaited recording debut of: Singer/Songwriter Rashida Oji & her band featuring Renaye Brown, percussion, Yolanda Bush, drums, Lillie Robinson, bass, Lynn Vidal, lead guitar [handbill] La Peña Cultural Center, Wednesday August 26
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
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: 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 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
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 Student Literary Magazine. Spring 1993
Berkeley: ASLM, 1993. 50p., slender paperback, very good. Published by students at UC Berkeley. More
Cat.No: 220443
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
Afrikan Student Literary Magazine: Vol. 1 Book II (Spring 1990)
Berkeley: ASLM, 1990. 34p., staplebound wraps, neatly ex-library, couple of small coffee splatters on front cover. Published by students at UC Berkeley. Features an interview with Barbara Christian. More
Cat.No: 220441
Afro-Americans in American history: brief biographies of nine outstanding men and women, drawings by Carl Owens
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 American history & culture, volume 1, issue 1
Mililani, HI: Kane Publications, 1998. Magazine. 84p., wraps. Various word games. More
Cat.No: 106411
Alabama Blacks in the Mirror: January 1975 [cover title Alabama Black in the Mirror]
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
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 Black Heritage Calendar; a continuing strength in our society [1987 calendar]
Oakland: Baker Mortuary, Inc., 1987. Calendar. [28p] includes covers, 8.75x9 inches, illustrations, photos, biographies, historical information, 12 month wall calendar, stapled pictorial covers. More
Cat.No: 214649
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 else very good condition. Short book reviews and bibliography. A Radical American Pamphlet. More
Cat.No: 59935