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
Freedomways, a quarterly review of the freedom movement. Vol. 15 no. 2
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1975. Single issue of the paperback journal, pp. 84-144, traces of a coffee cup ring on the cover. Includes an editorial, "Joanne Little: America goes on trial," Alice A. Lewis describing an appearance by Angela Davis in Port Gibson, Mississippi to call for the release of..... More
Cat.No: 253183
Freedomways, a quarterly review of the freedom movement. Vol. 9, no. 2 (Spring 1969)
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1969. pp. 101-192., paperback journal, mild handling wear. Cover art by Carles White. More
Cat.No: 253012
Freedomways, a quarterly review of the freedom movement. Vol. 9, no. 3 (Summer 1969)
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1969. pp. 197-288., paperback journal, mild handling, very good. Cover art by John Biggers. Includes Kathryn Jackson on "LeRoi Jones and the New Black Writers of the Sixties," George Fishman on "Paul Robeson's student days and the fight against racism at Rutgers," and more... More
Cat.No: 253010
Freedomways: a quarterly review of the freedom movement. vol. 10, no. 2 (Second quarter, 1970)
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1970. pp. 100-192, paperback journal, very good. Includes J.H. O'Dell's "The contours of the 'Black Revolution' in the 1970s," Robert S. Browne on "Roots of US intervention in Cambodia," Julius Nyerere of Tanzania on "Socialism is not racialism," and more. More
Cat.No: 253004
Freedomways: a quarterly review of the freedom movement. vol. 10, no. 4 (Fourth quarter, 1970)
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1970. pp. 308-399, paperback journal, mild shelfwear. Includes Porter Kirkwood's "America's youth culture: a revolutionary potential?" as well as "Art and liberation" by Richard G. Hatcher, and a symposium on the GI movement against the war, with Ralph David Abernathy, Howard Levy, and J.H. O'Dell, and..... More
Cat.No: 253006
Freedomways: a quarterly review of the freedom movement. vol. 12, no. 1 (First quarter, 1972)
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1972. 95p., paperback journal, mild wear. Includes a tribute to Martin Luther King and W.E.B. Du Bois by Harry Belafonte, poetry by Audre Lorde and Nicolas Guillen, Calvin Sinnette on "Genocide and Black ecology," and much more. More
Cat.No: 253007
Freedomways: a quarterly review of the freedom movement. vol. 12, no. 2 (Second quarter, 1972)
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1972. pp. 100-176., paperback journal, light shelfwear, very good. Includes a speech by Shirley Chisholm, a piece by Communist VP candidate Jarvis Tyner, and much more. More
Cat.No: 253008
Freedomways: a quarterly review of the freedom movement. vol. 12, no. 4 (Fourth quarter, 1972)
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1972. pp. 268-359., paperback journal, very good. Cover art by Cliff Joseph. Includes several items on the Paul Laurence Dunbar centennial, Jesse Jackson on challenges to organized labor, and more. More
Cat.No: 253009
Freedomways: a quarterly review of the freedom movement. Vol. 8 no. 3 (Summer 1968)
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1968. Paperback journal, pp. 205-294, light shelfwear and fading to the cover. Includes Alice Walker's "Diary of an African nun," Ossie Davis writing on Nat Turner, WEB Du Bois on "The American Negro and the Darker World," and more. More
Cat.No: 252971
Freedomways: a quarterly review of the freedom movement. Vol. 8 no. 4 (Fall 1968)
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1968. Paperback journal, pp. 301-424, light shelfwear. This issue is devoted to the theme of "The crisis in education and the changing Afro-American community," with contributions from Horace Mann Bond, Brumsic Brandon, Doxey A. Wilkerson, and many others. More
Cat.No: 253013
Freedomways: A Quarterly Review of the Negro Freedom Movement. Vol. 6, no. 4, Fall, 1966 (Fourth quarter)
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1966. 293-396p., wraps slightly shelfworn else very good condition. Cover art by John Devine. Includes Jack O'Dell's "Colonialism and the Negro American experience," Tim Black's "Chicago Negro labor and civil rights," Special section in memory of Eslanda Robeson, Cartoons by Brumsic Brandon, and more. More
Cat.No: 211221
Freedomways; A Quarterly Review of the Negro Freedom Movement. Volume 3 no. 2 (Spring 1963)
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1963. Special "Second Anniversary Issue" issue of the civil rights journal, Softbound journal in 9x6 inch plain printed wraps; generally very good with external rubbing and mild shelfwear. Featured articles: "The Negro in American Films" by Carlton Moss; "And Then Came Baldwin" by Julian Mayfield; "The..... More
Cat.No: 238344
FS: Feminist studies; vol. 8, #2, Summer 1982
College Park: Feminist Studies, Inc., 1982. Paperback. 231-456p. [i.e., 225 pages of text] plus appended materials, very good trade paperback journal in white pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 251538
The Gater. Vol. 97, no. 51 (Dec. 7, 1967). Campus Rampage
San Francisco, CA: San Francisco State University, 1967. Newspaper. 4-page tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, paper toned. This issue of the student paper is devoted to the campus takeover the previous day by black revolutionaries. "The great number of black people recruited from ghettos and other campuses came in for..... More
Cat.No: 251861
George Washington Carver Foundation / Tuskegee Institute [six perforated stamps]
Tuskegee, AL: the Foundation, n.d. Group of six stamps of the same type, not yet separated along perforations, depicting Carver with chemistry lab equipment. Issued for use in fundraising rather than as postage, this type of stamp is known as a "cinderalla." Very good condition, each stamp 1.5x2 inches. Undated..... More
Cat.No: 180182
GLHS Events [8 handbills]
San Francisco: Gay & Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California, 1999. Eight 8.5x11 inch handbills printed one side only on white stock all very good. Two versions of Making a Case for Community History, Asian & Pacific Islander Queers Looking Back with Pride, Transit Case - Estate of Louis Sullivan..... More
Cat.No: 242306
Go down Garvey curriculum guide
Palo Alto: TheatreWorks, 1991. 53p., 8.5x11 inches, holepunched wraps attached by brads. Study guide for the musical. More
Cat.No: 74432
The Goodwin Family Reunion 1982
San Diego: the family, 1982. [8p], photocopied booklet in staplebound wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, food stain to back cover. African American family's reunion program, including a poem by Carmen K. Wadley. More
Cat.No: 197790
Granada: el mundo contra el crimen
Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 1983. 325p., illus. with numerous photos, wraps. More
Cat.No: 85757
The great American Negro calendar 1977
San Mateo, CA: Patterson & O'Connell, 1977. Calendar. 28p. calendar, each month illus. with 8-10 panels depicting the life of a prominent Black American (Frances Harper, Duke Ellington, James P. Beckwourth, Charles Spaulding, etc.). Calendar sponsored by Patterson & O'Connell, a San Mateo California funeral home. More
Cat.No: 42287
Great Black inventors: card pack & poster
Oakland: Quilombo ICM, 1995. Small box of ten cards with images of the ten inventors on front, biographical information on verso, a folded poster with the ten inventors' portraits, cover card with publication information, all very good. 4x5.5 inches, poster folds out to 12.25x16 inches, all b&w. More
Cat.No: 206840
The Great Film Malcolm X... Benefit to help pay for the KPFA broadcast of the Hard Times Conference [handbill]
San Francisco: KPFA, 1976. 8.5x11 inch handbill with portrait of Malcolm X; very good. More
Cat.No: 187975
Grenada is not alone; speeches by the People's Revolutionary Government at the first International Conference in Solidarity with Grenada, November, 1981
St. George's, Grenada: Fedon Publishers, 1982. Paperback. 147p., wraps, old price sticker on rear wrap else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 241536
Growing up Negro; in American Child, vol. 45, no. 1, January 1963
New York: National Committee on Employment of Youth, 1963. Issue title for the journal, with contributions by Otis E. Finley, Je., Kenneth B. Clark and others. More
Cat.No: 96896
Guaguancó Salsa newsletter: March,1994
Berkeley: Guaguancó Productions, 1994-1995. 16p., 4.25x11 inches, articles on salsa music and dancing, Afro-Brazillian culture, list of band contacts, events etc., very good in tall stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 240150