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.
The Claverite: a Catholic fraternal magazine; vol. 79, #2, Winter...
New Orleans: Knights of Peter Claver, 1998. Magazine. 40p., 8.5x11 inches, articles, events, photos, members, services, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Cover photos of Most Reverend George V. Murray, SJ, the National Chaplain and Most Reverend Joseph N. Perry, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago. African American Catholic order. More
Cat.No: 213004
Clear Kenneth Johnson
Buffalo, NY: The Kenneth Johnson Defense Fund, [1976]. Pamphlet. Six-panel brochure, 4.75x8.5 inches, very good. On the case of an African American community activist in prison for rape; alleges that he has been framed and lists cases from the past of false rape charges against African American men. More
Cat.No: 177697
[Collection of 19 items on the Black Student Strike at...
Madison, WI: 1969. Handbill. Collection of nineteen handbills from the Black Student Strike in February 1969 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Black students had created a list of 13 demands for the administration including admitting more black students and a well staffed African American studies department among other things..... More
Cat.No: 317980
Color lines; race culture action, volume 1, no. 1, summer...
Oakland: Applied Research Center and the Center for Third World Organizing, 1998-2005. Magazine. various pagination, illus. Twenty-eight issues including a special (unnumbered) issue from December, 2001 on the war on terrorism. This incomplete run of the 8.25x11 inch radical multicultural quarterly is missing Vol. 7 Nos. 2 and 4 and..... More
Cat.No: 130637
The color purple; a gala premiere benefitting the San Francisco...
[San Francisco]: n. pub. 1985. 24p., illus., 8.5x11 inches, very good condition. Program for the benefit opening of the film version of Alice Walker's novel. More
Cat.No: 19573
Columbia Trustee and District Attorney Hogan: Drop the racist frameup...
New York: Columbia-Barnard SDS, [1970]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch mimeographed handbill printed both sides, very good. Asserts a long history of discriminatory behavior by District Attorney Hogan, accusing him of having "picked up every Panther he could find" and charging them with "all kinds of heinous things. They have been sitting..... More
Cat.No: 313430
Combined minutes of the proceedings of the Fifty-Sixth session of...
Atlanta: [Sixth Episcopal District, AME Church], 1956. Pamphlet. 80p., staplebound pamphlet, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps lightly worn, sunned along staple edge else very good. Includes a resolution in support of the Supreme Court's outlawing of school segregation. More
Cat.No: 212864
The Commemorator. Vol. 21 no. 2 (October 2011); 45th BPP...
Oakland: The Commemoration Committee for the Black Panther Party, 2011. Newspaper. 24p., tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, otherwise very good. Single issue of the paper published by former Black Panthers and supporters. More
Cat.No: 276371
Community Legal Defense Organization [handbill]
[Chicago]: the Organization, [1968]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch mimeographed leaflet, very good. The Community Legal Defense Organization formed in April 1968 to provide bail money and legal defense to Black residents of Chicago who had been arrested in the civil unrest that erupted after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr...... More
Cat.No: 299925
Community Services Institute [3 items]
San Francisco: San Francisco State college, 1968. Ephemera. Three items pertaining to the implementation of work-study programs at San Francisco State College, lot includes two reports on work-study, corner-stapled, 21p., (Spring 1968) and 10p., (Summer 1968), and a summer staff listing; staples are a bit rusted, some minor toning, else..... More
Cat.No: 305886
Comprehensive Listing of State Legislators of Color: Updated June 1992
Washington DC: Center for Policy Alternatives, 1992. Pamphlet. 23p., softbound corner-stapled pamphlet 11x8.5 inches, ex library with minimal markings (rubber stamp and inked abbreviation), a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 191382
Contemporary Afro-American Films Presents Saba Saba
Stockton, CA: Contemporary Afro-American Films, [c1972]. Single sheet folded to make a 3-panel brochure, 3.75 x 8.5 inches when folded, illus., very good condition. Brochure promoting the film "Saba Saba", a 1972 documentary on Tanzania and President Julius Nyerere made by African-American filmmakers George Sloan, Sam Steverson, William Sloan, and..... More
Cat.No: 250765
Contemporary Issues: vol. 1 no. 2, Winter 1948
London: Contemporary Press, 1948. Paperback. pp81-160p., wraps, light handling wear, pencil notation on front wrap, front wrap splash stained, else very good condition. Articles include "German Resistance Today: An Open Letter," "Yugoslavia: First Rumble of the Coming Storm," and "If We Must Die...Negro Anti-Draft Campaign." More
Cat.No: 296202
The Councilor: Vol. 10 no. 12 (July 28, 1973)
Shreveport, LA: the newspaper, 1973. [16p.], tabloid format newspaper, evenly toned else good condition. Single issue of the far-right newspaper, with articles on various communist and Jewish efforts to undermine the American Way, an article about Angela Davis as violent menace, etc. More
Cat.No: 201259
Counter attack
New Haven, CT: New Haven Panther Defense Committee, [1970]. Newspaper. 16p. tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, paper toned and foxed, especially the front cover. Packed with articles by and about the Black Panthers, issued in the context of the trials following the killing of Alex Rackley. More
Cat.No: 284639
CPSB Newsletter. Issue VII (December 1975)
Birmingham, Alabama: Committee for Prisoner Support in Birmingham, 1975. Newsletter. 8p. tabloid format newspaper, penned address and postal markings on front page. "Black" has been penciled at the top, mostly erased. Includes a substantial description of conditions at Julia Tutwiler Prison by a woman incarcerated there, and a cover story..... More
Cat.No: 296149
Crimes of Hate [brochure] a powerful new documentary video
New York: Anti-Defamation league, [1998]. Eight panel brochure folded to 3.5x8.5 inches on heavy stock illustrated with stills from the film, final panel is an order form for the ADL film library, very good. Concerns hate crimes agains Jews, People of Color and Gays. More
Cat.No: 252659
Criminal trials in repression of American radicals
[Los Angeles]: n.pub. 1970. Pamphlet. 7p., 8.5x11 inch mimeographed sheets stapled at corner, penciled note at top states "From Committee United for Political Prisoners, 1970 Los Ang." Year penciled again at bottom, otherwise very good. In the context of Bobby Seale's trial, discusses earlier cases such as the Haymarket martyrs..... More
Cat.No: 308071
CSERA News: A bi-monthly newsletter from the Center for Studies...
Boulder, CO: CSERA, 1992. 7p., self wraps secured by folding, 8.5 x 11 inches, creased from being folded in half for mailing, address label on rear wrap with address crossed off in marker, else very good condition with flier advertising a fellowship opportunity laid in. The Center encompessed the Afroamerican..... More
Cat.No: 251016
CSERA News: A bi-monthly newsletter from the Center for Studies...
Boulder, CO: CSERA, 1993. 7p., self wraps secured by folding, 8.5 x 11 inches, creased from being folded in half for mailing, address label on rear wrap else very good condition. The Center encompessed the Afroamerican, American Indian, Asian American, and Chicano Studies departments at the University. More
Cat.No: 251017
The Curran Magazine: vol. 1, #10, October 1978: Bubbling Brown...
San Francisco: Arts & Leisure Publications, 1978. Magazine. 40p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, cast, crew bios, lightly soiled souvenir program for the SF production of the Loften Mitchell musical, stapled white pictorial wraps. Single sheet playbill laid-in. The program for the production illustrated with photos and ads. More
Cat.No: 44172
De facto segregation in public schools; a position paper for...
New York: National Community Relations Advisory Council, 1964. Pamphlet. 15p. 4x9 inches; date penciled on front, hint of foxing, rear bottom corner has slight tear, else very good. More
Cat.No: 299519
Defend Atlanta's children not El Salvador's junta / March on...
Washington DC: People's Anti-War Mobilization, [1981]. Pinback Button. 2-inch pinback button, green pentagonal ribbon motif around the date, very good. Merges opposition to involvement in El Salvador with the national campaign to search for the murderer of 28 African American children and young adults between 1979-1981. Because Atlanta police and..... More
Cat.No: 185682
Delegate 1986
New York: Delegate, 1986. Oversized Paperback. 228p., illus., 8.5x11 inches, wraps. For two decades, Delegate served as a guide to the meetings and activities of African American leadership organizations. More
Cat.No: 42231
DENISE ANDERSON, WILLIAM ANDERSON, ROBERT W. CASTLE, ARLENE LATKO, JOEL...
n.p. Superior Court of New Jersey; Chancery division, Hudson County, 1969. 11p., 8.5x14 inch sheets stapled together at upper left corner, very good. Civil rights organizers in Hudson County filed the lawsuit against police for tracking their activities and creating secret files; the court finds that the police activities did..... More
Cat.No: 194214
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