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
The freedom climb; a chronology of over 400 years of history in America of the afro-American's heroic struggle to gain his rightful place in the country where he lived, fought, struggled, worked, died and loved
Dover, DE: Back Publishing Company, 1969. 64p., wraps. This 1492-1968 chronology contains an appendix of Spingarn Medalists. More
Cat.No: 121306
Freedom has no price: an anthology of poems. Festival of the revolution, March 1-13, Grenada 1980
Bridgetown: Modern Printing & Graphics, [1980-?]. 88p., wraps, photocopied forward stapled inside front cover, gift inscription. Revolutionary poetry collection; last page has one-sentence biographies of the contributors. More
Cat.No: 160363
Freedom has no price: an anthology of poems. Festival of the revolution, March 1-13, Grenada 1980
Bridgetown: Modern Printing & Graphics, [1980-?]. 88p., staplebound booklet, photocopied forward stapled inside front cover, minor foxing. Revolutionary poetry collection; last page has one-sentence biographies of the contributors. More
Cat.No: 197232
Freedom News, Vol. 4, No. 11, November 1970 advocating peace and human dignity - in our time
Richmond, CA: Freedom News, Inc., 1970. Newspaper. 40p., folded tabloid newspaper, toned, a tad of fraying, dog-ears, horizontal fold. A good copy. A cross between a Richmond, CA community paper and an underground paper. Much local news, but also includes coverage of the first anniversary of the Alcatraz occupation, a...... More
Cat.No: 245439
Freedom News, Vol. 4, No. 9, September 1970 advocating peace and human dignity - in our time
Richmond, CA: Freedom News, Inc., 1970. Newspaper. 40p., folded tabloid newspaper, toned, some fraying, dog-ears, small tears and chips, horizontal fold. A complete reading copy. A cross between a Richmond, CA community paper and an underground paper. Much local news, but also includes coverage of California water plan, the Baldwin..... More
Cat.No: 245438
Freedom now! for all our political prisoners and prisoners of war. If not now, then when?
Washington DC: Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, n.d. Four-panel brochure, 5.5x8.5 inches, folded from a single sheet. Faint fold crease. Defines political prisoner and lists activities to help, as well as resources to contact.Circa mid-1990s. More
Cat.No: 190096
The Freedom Times. No. 1 (Fall 2008)
Jamaica Plain, MA: Jericho Boston, 2008. 12p., tablpoid newspaper format, horizontal fold, very good. Issued to mark the tenth anniversary of the Jericho movement to free political prisoners. Includes contributions by Jalil Muntaqim, David Gilbert, Sundiata Acoli, Marilyn Buck, Oscar Lopez Rivera, Sarah Olson, and others. More
Cat.No: 217885
Freedomways, a quarterly review of the Negro freedom movement; third quarter, summer, 1964, vol. 4, no. 3
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1964. Trade Paperback. [166]p., wraps slightly shelf worn. A special issue on the peoples of the Caribbean, including C.L.R. James' Parties, Politics and Economics in the Caribbean, and original contributions by Paule Marshall, Rosa Guy and George Lamming, among others. More
Cat.No: 37703
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
Guide to manuscripts and archives in the Negro Collection of Trevor Arnett Library, Atlanta University
Atlanta: Trevor Arnett Library, 1971. v, 45p., wraps. More
Cat.No: 53837
Haiti: ¡La dechoukage apenas ha comenzado! Selecciones de Un Mundo Que Ganar, 1986
Coyoacán, DF: Un Mundo Que Ganar, 1996. 31p., wraps. RCP publication. More
Cat.No: 121532
Handbill - Shades of San Francisco . . . a search for the visual history of San Francisco exhibition Sunday March 29, 1998, 9am-5pm, Western Addition Branch
San Francisco: San Francisco Public Library, 1998. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet handbill printed recto-only, black text on yellow stock, very good. Flyer for the exhibition on the history of The Western Addition. A call for photos from personal albums owned by occupants of The WA. More
Cat.No: 195718
Hands off Kevin Clark [pinback button]
[San Francisco]: [2013]. 2.25 inch diameter pin, very good. Issued after video footage emerged showing San Francisco police beating the 18-year-old African American community college student. More
Cat.No: 235487
Harlem Renaissance art of black America; introduction by Mary Schmidt Campbell. Essays by David Driskell, David Levering Lewis, and Deborah Willis Ryan
New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem/Harry N. Abrams, 1987. 200p., profusely illus. with both paintings and photographs, dj. More
Cat.No: 12792
Health status of African American elders: implications for the next millennium; 1998 National Health Symposium, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, June 8 - Saturday, June 11, 1998
Washington: The National Caucus and Center on Black Aged, 1997. 11p., 8.5x11 inches, wraps. Call for presentations and abstracts. More
Cat.No: 128222