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
Independent Student. September 1960
Los Angeles: Independent Student Union, 1960. 8p., newsletter, 7x8.5 inches, lightly fold-creased else very good. Updates on Civil Rights activism, including sit-ins. More
Cat.No: 238010
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Information Alert: Drug Abuse and AIDS, Our Community at Risk: Choices for Change [handbill] a series of 2-day regional conferences for the frican-American Community sponsored by the National Inst. on Drug Abuse
Rockville, MD: R.O.W. Sciences, 1990. Single 8.5x11 inch handbill printed one-side only very good on light blue stock. States goals, objectives, target audience, dates and locations, contact info. More
Cat.No: 238210
Integration in housing; special issue of Lawyers Guild Review, vol. xviii, no. 1, Spring 1958
New York: National Lawyers Guild, 1958. 45p., 8.5x11 inches, wraps. Articles by Ralph Shapiro, Stanley J. Mayer, Moses Sherr and others. More
Cat.No: 45738
Internal Information Bulletin [All three issues for 1967]
New York: Socialist Workers Party, 1967. January and two December issues of the irregular bulletin, all published that year, 8.5x11 inch mimeographed sheets stapled at left, ownership signature in upper right corner, otherwise very good. 41, 31, 13 pages respectively. Contents include "The case for an Independent Black Political Party,"..... More
Cat.No: 206784
Internal Information Bulletin, December 1967
New York: Socialist Workers Party, 1967. Magazine. 31p., wraps, rear wrap detached but present, staples rusted else good condition, 8.5x11 inches. Contents: "The case for an Independent Black Political Party," by Clifton DeBerry, "American Politics and the 1968 Presidential Campaign" by Jack Barnes. More
Cat.No: 245441
Internal Information Bulletin, Feb, 1977, No. 1
New York: Socialist Workers Party, 1977. Staplebound. One issue, wraps, 8.5x11 inches, 63pp., issue is worn, edge and shelf worn, previous owners name pencilled in on upper right corner of cover wrap, else good condition. Reports on the National Comm. Plenum including reports on Women's liberation, Party-Youth relations, Black workers..... More
Cat.No: 257697
Internal Information Bulletin, Sep, 1977, No. 6
New York: Socialist Workers Party, 1977. Staplebound. One issue, wraps, 8.5x11 inches, 51pp., issue is worn, edge and shelf worn, previous owners name pencilled in on upper right corner of cover wrap, else good condition. Reports on the Labor Movement and the Party, the Struggle for Black Liberation, The Chicano..... More
Cat.No: 257700
International internal information bulletin, no. 1 in September, 1980 to no. 4, December, 1980
New York: Socialist Workers Party, 1980. Four volumes, all wraps, 8.5x11 inches, all with worn wraps, Number 2 with water damage along bottom edge, Number 3 with some small stains on rear wrap, else generally good condition. Volume one on Maurice Bishop & the revolution in Grenada with articles by..... More
Cat.No: 125399
International Socialist Review, January-February 1969 to November-December 1969 [all six issues for 1969]
New York: ISR, 1969. Magazine. Six issues of the bimonthly journal affiliated with the Socialist Workers Party, 48 to 80p. each, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good in wraps but for minor pen marks in a couple of issues. Articles for this period include "A transitional program for Black liberation, "Antiwar GIs..... More
Cat.No: 181676
International Socialist Review, January-February 1969 to November-December 1969 [5 issues for 1969]
New York: ISR, 1969. Magazine. Five issues of the bimonthly journal affiliated with the Socialist Workers Party, 48 to 80p. Missing July-August issue, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps but for minor pen marks in a couple of issues, cover wraps worn. Articles for this period include a memorial to Rosa Luxemberg, Burning..... More
Cat.No: 254429
International Socialist Review, vol. 26, nos. 1-4 [all issues for 1965]
New York: International Socialist Review Publishing Association, 1965. Four issues, 127p. in total, 8.5x11 inches in staplebound wraps, all with worn and soiled wraps, front wrap of Winter issue vertically creased, small stain on front wrap of Fall issue, otherwise very good condition. The Spring issue, published after Malcolm X's..... More
Cat.No: 206775
Interracial news service: a digest of trends and developments in human relations, volume 29, number 3, May-June 1958
New York: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, 1958. 8p. newsletter comprised of folded sheets, illustrated with drawings, very good bi-monthly. Desegregation. More
Cat.No: 185795
Interracial news service: a digest of trends and developments in human relations, volume 28, number 4, July-August 1957
New York: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, 1957. 4p. newsletter comprised of folded sheet toned bottom edge on rear panel otherwise a very good bi-monthly. American Baptist Convention. More
Cat.No: 185796
Introducing... Marxism and Black liberation, a new theoretical journal
Chicago: Peoples College, 1980. Pamphlet. 24p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.25 inches, very good condition. Editorial statement preceding the first issue. More
Cat.No: 26496
Introducing... Marxism and Black liberation, a new theoretical journal
Chicago: Peoples College, 1980. Pamphlet. 24p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.25 inches, wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Editorial statement preceding the first issue. More
Cat.No: 267087
Is the New Alliance Party Pro-Gay???
n.p. n.pub. [1990]. [6p] 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled together at upper left corner, very good. No publisher given, but issued by a member of the Peace and Freedom Party in California as part of the effort to resist NAP infiltration in 1990. After cover sheet, includes reprints of letters to..... More
Cat.No: 206658
Is this Mississippi? [handbill]
San Francisco: Movement Against Political Suspensions, [1967]. 8.5x11 inch sheet mimeographed one side, minor edgewear., lightly toned along one edge else very good condition. On the suspensions of politically active students, declaring that at San Francisco State "There is wide-spread pressure to silence the student movement..." Outlines five demands to..... More
Cat.No: 181462
The ISU Liberator: a journal of opinion. Vol. V no. 3 (December 5, 1966)
Ames, Iowa: the journal [per Iowa State University], 1966. 8p., 6x8 inches, very good in wraps. Single issue of the independent student publication. Cover stories are Bruce Ellis' "Black Power," and a critical response to it by English instructor Arthur Johnson (interesting for its description of the audience at the..... More
Cat.No: 187954
Jaki Lee & the Women's Committee of the GLBT Historical Society presents: Journey of the Souls [playbill] February 19, 2011
San Francisco: Gay & Lesbian Historical Society, 2011. [6p] includes covers, 5.5x8.5 inches, playbill for the event with b&w photo of Joanne Garrett, Anita Onang and Pat parker as Gente on cover, very good. Includes biographical sketches, program schedule for the event at First Unitarian Church in Oakland including African..... More
Cat.No: 243803
Janus: communications organ of Black Studies. Vol. 2 no. 4 (May 27, 1970)
Berkeley: Black Studies, UC Berkeley, 1970. 16p., tabloid format newspaper, evenly toned, otherwise very good. Contents include an anti-war statement by the BSU, a cover story on an appearance by Jesse Jackson, review of a Miles Davis performance, and much on the Ron Dellums campaign. More
Cat.No: 191357
Jazz; a quarterly of American music,1-5
Berkeley: Jazz Publications, 1958-59. A complete run of the magazine edited by Ralph J. Gleason, various paginations, very good in wraps but with musty odor. The first issue contains Studs Terkel's 'Big Bill's Last Session'; the second, Duke Ellington's 'A Royal View of Jazz', the third John Hammond, Samuel B...... More
Cat.No: 134643
Jesse L. Terry Manor: dedication, February 12, 1978
Los Angeles: Tumast Foundation, 1978. 4p. wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. Program dedicating the housing project to the late Los Angeles African American activist. Terry helped found the L.A. chapter of the National Council of Negro Women, was the first Black member of the city's Housing Commission and was..... More
Cat.No: 32149
The job crisis for black youth; report of the Twentieth Century Fund, Task Force on Employment Problems of Black Youth, with a background paper by Sar A. Levitan and Robert Taggart III
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. xiii, 135p. Very good. No dust jacket (presumably as issued). More
Cat.No: 28627
Join the Long Walk for Racial Justice. From Goddard College in Vermont to Harvard Square in Cambridge
Cambridge, MA: Rally for Justice, [1973]. Two 8.5x11 inch leaflets stapled together at corner; the second leaflet is headlined "Otis McRae blasts racism at Goddard College, a 200 mile walk to address rally at Harvard." Mild handling wear. The second leaflet discusses controversies and protests at Goddard over cutbacks of..... More
Cat.No: 234650
Joint statement from the Black Board and the Ethnic Studies Defense Committee concerning the actions of Bill Banks [handbill]
[Berkeley]: the Coard; the Committee, 1974. 8.5x14 inch handbill, horizontal fold, date penned in corner. Opposes William Banks' move to transfer the Ethnic Studies program to the College of Letters & Science. More
Cat.No: 242728