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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
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
The Journal of Afro-American issues; a quarterly journal devoted to theoretical and empirical Afro-American issues. Volume 1, no. 3 (Winter-Spring 1973)
Columbus, OH: Educational and Community Consultants Associates, 1973. pp. 265-339, staplebound booklet format, mild edgewear, staples rusted, else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 238004
Journal of American ethnic history; volume 1, number 1 - volume 4, number 1
New Brunswick: Transaction Periodicals Consortium, 1981-84. First seven issues of the journal, which lasted through eight volumes, each issue approximately 120p., very good in wraps. More
Cat.No: 114818
Journal of Negro Education: a quarterly review of problems incident to the education of Negroes [15 issues]
Washington: Howard University Press, 1945-78. Paperback. Fifteen issues of the paperback journal, many from the dawn of the Civil Rights era with much coverage of desegregation efforts and legal challenges. Numbers present are winter, spring and summer 1945 (the summer issue from Herbert Aptheker's library), winter and fall 1946, fall..... More
Cat.No: 218653
The journal of Negro history; founded by Carter G. Woodson, Volume 24/1939
New York: United Publishing Corporation, 1969. 501p., bound reprint of all issues for the year, very good hardcover. More
Cat.No: 130246
Journal of proceedings of the Forty Ninth session of the Atlanta, GA. Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, held with St. Mark AME Church, Atlanta, Georgia, November 9, 10, 11, 12, 1949
Rome, GA: the Church, 1949. 33p., staplebound pamphlet, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps evenly toned otherwise very good. Includes discussion of issues hindering missionary work in southern Africa. More
Cat.No: 212869
Journal of the History of Sexuality: vol. 4, #1, July 1993
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993. Paperback. 174p., very good trade paperback journal in gray wraps. Articles include "Catholic Moral Discourse on Male Sodomy and Masturbation in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," "African Americans and Sexual Victorianism in the Social Hygiene Movement, 1910-1940," and "Women, War, and History: Debates..... More
Cat.No: 265568
Journal of the new African literature a biannual International Publication; the 4th, fall 1967
Stanford: Journal of the new African literature, 1967 (1968). Paperback. 90p. poetry, plays, art, fiction, literature by African students studying in the US, very good in wraps. Light general soiling and rubbing to covers. Actually published in June 1968 according to a stamp near bottom of first page of at..... More
Cat.No: 214259
Just schools: a special report commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Brown decision. Southern Exposure, Vol. VII, no. 2
Chapel Hill, NC: Institute for Southern Studies, 1979. 160p, lightly shelfworn wraps, 8.5x11 inches. More
Cat.No: 144101
Justice at home and peace abroad: Jesse Jackson's challenge
Oakland, CA: Line of March Publications, 1984. 16p., 8.5x11 inch pamphlet on newsprint, paper toned. "These articles were collectively developed by members of the Line of March Black Liberation Commission"--p. 2. More
Cat.No: 152740
The Kawaida Groundwork Committee (Us)
Los Angeles: Kawaida Community Center, 1981. Six-panel brochure, mild soil and handling wear, pen notation on rear wrap, highlighter mark on front wrap. The US Organization was co-founded by Ron Karenga, creator of Kwanzaa. This brochure introduces the theory and goals of the Groundwork Committee. More
Cat.No: 254049
The Kawaida Groundwork Committee (Us). Weekly Forum Series. July, 1982
Inglewood, CA: Kawaida Publications, 1982. Six-panel brochure, mild soil and handling wear. Overview of upcoming events. The US Organization was co-founded by Ron Karenga, creator of Kwanzaa. More
Cat.No: 254050
Keep the Peace 2003, A Nonviolence Resource Directory
Oakland: Alameda County Public Health Department and the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center, A Joint Publication, 2003. Paperback. xii, 55p., professionally-printed on alkaline paperstock, 8.5x5.5 inch softbound. A fine clean copy. More
Cat.No: 220854