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
A history of baseball in the San Francisco Bay Area; San Francisco Giants official 1985 yearbook
San Francisco: Woodford Associates, 1985. 84p., 11x8.5 inch oblong, illustrated with photos, ads and stats, mildly worn stapled pictorial wraps with photo of the 1909 PCL Champion San Francisco Seals team on the cover. More
Cat.No: 110955
A home of our own
Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, [196-?]. 42p., wraps with subtitle "A guide for home buyers", aimed at African Americans. More
Cat.No: 80812
Honor Her Legacy; The Bayview is not for Sale [3-inch pinback button with text in red and black on a colorphoto field (activist in a red hat and skyblue coat)]
San Francisco: no date. Pinback Button. 3-inch diameter pin, unflawed, very good exemplar. The Bayview, adjacent to Hunter's Point, is a low-income family-based area largely African American and long targeted by real estate entrepreneurs. More
Cat.No: 226868
Honor Martin Luther King Jr., March .... Join us on Friday evening, January 16
[Berkeley]: Citizens for an End to Racism, [197-?]. 1p. flyer, printed single side, 8.5x11 inches, calling for a march and rally in Berkeley and a caravan to an ecumenical service in Richmond. More
Cat.No: 107449
Human rights in Brazil 2001; a report by the Social Network for Justice and Human Rights in partnership with Global Exchange
São Paulo: Social Network for Justice and Human Rights i, [2002]. 216p., wraps. Includes a 7-page intro to "women's police stations," the first such established in 1985, "the main public and political arena to combat and prevent violence against women" More
Cat.No: 137919
I seminario sobre la situacion de las comunidades negra, chicana, cubana, india y puertorriquena en Estados Unidos: Memorias
Havana: Editora Política, 1984. 522p., very good in wraps, text in Spanish. Includes papers by Roxanne Dunbar, Ron Daniels, Robert Chrisman and other American leftists in addition to Cuban and Latin American authors. More
Cat.No: 206426
I support the Eastside Cultural Center [pinback button]
Oakland: the Center, [201-]. 2.25 inch diameter pin, very good, with portrait of Malcolm X. More
Cat.No: 220200
The I.B.W.A. quarterly; an anthology, winter edition, 1991
Oakland: The International Black Writers & Artists, 1991. 30p., wraps. Richard Moore edited the journal, which contains both prose and poetry. More
Cat.No: 48247
In Madrid and Mississippi; - volunteers for liberty; Bay Area Post of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Freedom Rides
Oakland: the Bay Area Post, 2001. 12p. illus. 7x8.5 inch illus. program for the Post's annual meeting, very good in wraps. Includes a roster of the Post's membership from its founding in 1962. More
Cat.No: 254922
In the spirit of Butler; trade unionism in free Grenada
St. George's: Fedon Publishers, 1982. 104p., coated paperstock throughout, illus. with photos of persons at work, on activist marches, and portrait studies; wraps, mild signs of handling. More
Cat.No: 47841
Independent Student. September 1960
Los Angeles: Independent Student Union, 1960. 8p., newsletter, 7x8.5 inches, 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
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