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.
Freedomways: a quarterly review of the freedom movement; Vol. 19...
New York: Freedomways Associates Inc., 1979. Magazine. Single issue of the staplebound journal, pp. 132-176, ex-library with "withdrawn" stamp on verso of rear wrap, else very good. Handbills advertising "Paul Robeson: The Great Forerunner" and "A Freedomways Reader" laid in. Includes a series of short critical essays, "Black writers' views..... More
Cat.No: 293626
From children with love
Berkeley: Columbus Intermediate School, Berkeley Unified School District, 1970. Pamphlet. 92p. staplebound booklet, very good but for child's ownership inscription inside front cover. "An anthology of children's poetry based on the study of Black history and culture." More
Cat.No: 275117
From Soledad to San Quentin
San Francisco: Prison Solidarity Committee, [1972-?]. Pamphlet. 28p., 8.5x11 inch staplebound pamphlet, printed on newsprint. Same internal contents as the version with a two-color card cover depicting armed prison guards; this cover instead depicts a prison silhouette and barbed wire. Minor soil to lower left corner of front cover, otherwise..... More
Cat.No: 299586
From Soledad to San Quentin
San Francisco: Prison Solidarity Committee, [1972-?]. Pamphlet. 28p., 8.5x11 inch staplebound pamphlet, two-color wraparound cover illustration; interior pages on newsprint. Very good. Issued in support of the San Quentin Six, with a history of California prison struggles that led to the death of George Jackson, profiles of the Six and..... More
Cat.No: 299653
From some friends [birthday card for a Black activist in...
n.p. n.d. Ephemera. A standard manila folder has been turned into a greeting card for a recipient identified only by his nickname, "Beast." The front panel shows a group of five friends carrying a giant birthday cake as they attack the walls of the prison. The card opens up to..... More
Cat.No: 295495
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
Garter Parade: #30
New York: S & G Pub. 1962. Magazine. [36p] includes covers 5.25x8.25 inches, entirely b&w semi-nude photos of young women in garters, corsets and stockings, very good digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Includes a centerfold set of an African American woman. More
Cat.No: 313452
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
Ghetto rebellions
New York: W. E. B. DuBois Clubs, [1967]. Pamphlet. Five mimeographed 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at corner, year penciled at bottom, minor toning and foxing. The issuing group was the youth organization of the Communist Party USA. We have seen another example typed on a different machine but with identical..... More
Cat.No: 280737
GI press service; Vol. 3 no. 1 (February 1971)
Washington DC: Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, 1971. Newspaper. [4]p., single issue of the tabloid-format newspaper targeted to antiwar GIs; evenly toned, otherwise very good. Includes an article on black GI's march to free Angela Davis. More
Cat.No: 306253
Go down Garvey: curriculum guide
Palo Alto: TheatreWorks, 1991. 53p., 8.5x11 inches, hole punched wraps attached by brads, very good condition. Study guide for the musical. More
Cat.No: 74432
Golden Gate Performing Arts, Inc. presents San Francisco Gay Men's...
San Francisco: San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, 2001. Pamphlet. [20]p., stapled wraps, 8.5x11 inches, very good program for the performance. More
Cat.No: 319838
Golden Gate Quartet, USA; Programmheft mit Liedertexten. Clyde Riddick.. 1...
Hamburg: n.d., 1980s. Pamphlet. Concert program with lyrics in English (only), no music notation, surrounding text in German (exclusively), features a number of b&w group photos with (over the decades) a various cast of always four persons. A tall stapled pamphlet, 11.5x8.5 inches, colorphoto cover with two color portraits. A...... More
Cat.No: 308157
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.), wraps lightly foxed along edges else good condition. Calendar sponsored by Patterson & O'Connell, a San..... More
Cat.No: 42287
The Great Film Malcolm X... Benefit to help pay for...
San Francisco: KPFA, 1976. 8.5x11 inch handbill with portrait of Malcolm X; very good. More
Cat.No: 187975
The Great Speckled Bird: vol. 8, #14, April 3, 1975
Atlanta: Atlanta Cooperative News Project, 1975. Newspaper. 16p., folded tabloid newspaper, articles, columns, reports, resources, services, ads, photos, evenly toned, a few spots of foxing on front wrap, else good on newsprint. Cover story on school segregation, plus articles on Argentina, the murder of two prison inmates and activists in..... More
Cat.No: 306077
The Green Pastures, souvenir program; pulitzer prize play of 1930
New York: [Al Greenstone], [c1930]. Pamphlet. 16p., pictorial wrappers in purple and green, 8.5x11.5 inches; b&w photos., wrapper edges sun-faded and slightly edgeworn, else in very good condition. Printed by the Gordon-Baker Printing Corp. More
Cat.No: 282247
Guía didáctica: Papa Roncón - historia de vida
Quito: Fondo Documental Afro-Andino, 2003. Pamphlet. 47p. staplebound booklet, very good. Teaching guide for use with the biography of the Afro-Ecuadorian musician Guillermo Ayoví Erazo, better known as Papá Roncón. More
Cat.No: 295875
Guide to scholarly journals in Black studies. Introdution by Gerald...
Chicago: The Chicago Center for Afro American Studies and Research, 1981. Paperback. 71p., wraps, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 292917
The Guild Practitioner [58 issues]
Berkeley: National Lawyers Guild, 1965-1982. Magazine. Fifty eight issues, spanning the period between Winter 1965 and Fall 1982. Issues present are Vol. 24 Nos. 1-4, Vol. 25 Nos. 2-4, Vol. 26 Nos. 1-4, Vol. 27 Nos. 1-4, Vol. 28 Nos. 1, 2, and 4, Vol. 29 Nos. 1-4 (No. 3/4..... More
Cat.No: 290868
The Guild Practitioner: Volume 24, Number 3, Summer 1965
Berkeley: National Lawyers Guild, 1965. Magazine. pp57-84., stapled wraps, 5.25x8.25 inches, very good condition. Includes a brief on the Watts riots. More
Cat.No: 283746
The Guild Practitioner: Volume 26, Number 3, Summer 1967. Special...
Berkeley: National Lawyers Guild, 1967. Magazine. pp65-118., stapled wraps, 5.25x8.25 inches, wraps sunned along edges, staples rusted, else very good condition. Includes an article on Black draftees. More
Cat.No: 283744
The Guild Practitioner: Volume 26, Number 3, Summer 1967. Special...
Berkeley: National Lawyers Guild, 1967. Magazine. pp65-118., stapled wraps, 5.25x8.25 inches, very good condition. Includes an article on Black draftees. More
Cat.No: 283745
The Guild Practitioner: Volume 38, Number 2, Spring 1981
Berkeley: National Lawyers Guild, 1981. Magazine. pp33-64, stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. Includes an article about Black tenants and their landlord who were harassed by a white neighbor. More
Cat.No: 283736
The Guild Practitioner: Volume 39, Number 4, Fall 1982
Berkeley: National Lawyers Guild, 1982. Magazine. pp97-128, stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, front wrap slightly creased, else very good condition. Includes a critique of the NLG's workshops on racism by Fania E. Davis and an oral history of a woman lawyer in the depression. More
Cat.No: 283730
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