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
Alabama Blacks in the Mirror: January 1975 [cover title Alabama Black in the Mirror]
Birmingham, AL: The Mirror, 1975. Magazine. [20p]8.5x11 inches, photos, articles, news, ads, resources, events, lightly-foxed magazine in stapled white pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 206128
ALD '94. African Liberation Day. Africa called, Libya answered! Revolution and religion are acts of culture, and must be used as weapons of liberation! [poster]
Washington DC: All-African People's Revolutionary Party, 1994. 17x23 inch poster for a symposium at Howard University and an affiliated rally; several staple holes, small tears from having been pulled down after posting. More
Cat.No: 260003
Ambrosia; volume I, number I (April-May 1980)
Berkeley: Common Sense Company, 1980. [16p.], staplebound wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. Edited by Joyce Carol Thomas. First issue of the literary "newsletter in celebration of Black women." More
Cat.No: 239606
America -Love it enough to change it
Philadelphia: National Organization for an American Revolution, [1984]. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, 8.5x11 inches, contact info for the San Francisco branch of NOAR rubberstamped at the end. By James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs' organization. Beginning with a portion of Langston Hughes' poem "Make America America Again," laments the results of..... More
Cat.No: 260317
America's Black Heritage Calendar; a continuing strength in our society [1987 calendar]
Oakland: Baker Mortuary, Inc., 1987. Calendar. [28p] includes covers, 8.75x9 inches, illustrations, photos, biographies, historical information, 12 month wall calendar, stapled pictorial covers. More
Cat.No: 214649
American labor history: Race and ethnicity in the working class
Somerville: New England Free Press, [1973]. Pamphlet. 48p., wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. Short book reviews and bibliography. More
Cat.No: 59935
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American Negro reference guide; volume I, number 4 [5 and 6], December 1960
New York: World Mutual Exchange, 1960-1. 45 sheets printed single side, 8.5x11 inches, small stain at lower right front wrap which also has some pen markings; some pen notations throughout. Includes a 1960-1 directory of US Negro newspapers, magazines and publications and separate annotated listings; Negro publications in Canada and..... More
Cat.No: 141832
The American Negro; in THE ANNALS, volume cxxxx, November 1928
Philadelphia: American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1928. Hardcover. viii, 359p., with block print front., wraps issue cased into green library buckram gilt-titled and -ruled, both of the original grey printed paper covers are bound in, new casing is fine, textblock and wraps are in near pristine condition. This..... More
Cat.No: 29381
The American Negro; in THE ANNALS, volume cxxxx, November 1928
Philadelphia: American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1928. Hardcover. viii, 359p., with block print frontis, hardcover issue in AAPSS series binding (ribbed maroon cloth panelled in blind, spine titles gilt), a bit shelfworn with minute fraying, a light paint smear on back cover, endsheets darkened by something long ago..... More
Cat.No: 139946
Anarchist Black Cross Network Newsletter. Issue #1, December 2002
Homewood, IL: South Chicago ABC Zine Distro, 2002. 57p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good zine-format newsletter, Updates on anarchist prisoners, prison abolition activism, and related topics. Includes a statement by former Black Panther Lorenzo Komboa Ervin regarding the newly formed network. More
Cat.No: 256779
Announcing .... 2nd annual post Easter conference on preaching; Friday, April 20, 1979 ... featuring ... Dr. Gardner C. Taylor
Detroit: Hartford Baptist Church and Metropolitan Church of God, 1979. Six-panel brochure, printed two sides, with Taylor's photograph, very good. More
Cat.No: 147685
Announcing vital information on America's two largest ethnic groups
Detroit: Gale Research, 1991. Paperback. 28p., 8.5x5.5 inches oblong, illustrated with photos of book covers, catalog of titles available from Gale in the areas of African American and Hispanic Americ studies, very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 169251
Annual meeting; the Tawawa School of Religion and Ministers' Conference, Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio, August 7-11, 1944, Third Episcopal districal Espicopal Church
Wilberforce: the Conference, 1944. 12p. program, including a 2p. Who's Who, very good in wraps. More
Cat.No: 121304
Anti-Bakke Decision Coalition / Smash Bakke / Demonstrate! / Nationwide Spring Offensive [pinback button]
San Jose, CA: the Coalition; mfg. by Ho-Sale Ent. [197-]. 1.75-inch diameter pin, black design on red background. Very good. More
Cat.No: 203695
The arts; a reflection on culture, Black History Month, February 1988
Detroit: Detroit Free Press and Michigan Bell, 1988. 16p., 11x14 inch supplement to the Detroit Free Press, with articles on music, theater, cancer, literature, film and art. More
Cat.No: 137184
Association re-affirms its position on race
Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1961. Two-sheet 8.5x11 inch press release, punch-holed and stapled. On the American Anthropological Association's repudiation of racism. Report L-29. More
Cat.No: 138850
Aswan '91: the first African Nubian Festival in Egypt
Brooklyn: Alken Tours - Africa Division, 1991. [9p.], staplebound 8.5x11 inch packet, very good. Itineraries for tours advised by Yosef A.A. Ben-Jochannan ("Master Ben"), a Black nationalist pseudohistorian. More
Cat.No: 251117
Attica Is / Free the Brothers Now [pinback button]
n.p. [197-]. 2.25 inch pin, very good. More
Cat.No: 247902
Auch ich bin Amerika; dichtungen Amerikanischer neger, übertragen von Stephan Hermlin
Berlin: Verlag Volk und Welt, 1948. Paperback. 140p., wraps. Poetry in German translation faces English language originals, from Frances Harper to Sterling Brown. More
Cat.No: 70775
Azania will be free! Down with South Africa! Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Pan African Congress of Azania [poster]
San Francisco: [John Nyata Pokela Tour], n.d. 17x22 inch poster featuring a crowd of demonstrators with fists raised, small golden outline of the African continent; edgeworn. Issued to promote the national tour of John Nyata Pokela; lengthy sponsorship list at bottom. More
Cat.No: 183558
BAHSES News: an HIV education & prevention program serving people of all colors in the Bay Area; vol. 2, #2, February 1992
San Francisco: Bay Area HIV Support and Education Services, 1992. Single 8.5x11 inch pink sheet printed both sides, 3-hole punch on left side, light wear. BAHSES was a component of Black & White Men Together/Men of All Colors Together. More
Cat.No: 244491
Baptist Pathfinders: study guide for middle and senior adult groups, ages 35 and above; Nurture for Baptist Churches, series four vol. 80, #1
Nashville: Sunday School Publishing Board, 1990. 32p., 5.5x8.5 inches, introduction, very good booklet in stapled tan wraps. More
Cat.No: 214677
Bay Area cultural workers celebrate Labor Day and the 20th anniversary of the historic March on Washington
[San Francisco?]: n. pub. [1983]. 8.5x11 inch printed sheet with quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and a list of participants, including Angela Davis, Decca Truehaft (Jessica Mitford), Nina Serrano, Teatro Latino and many others. More
Cat.No: 162546
BeatBox: for the hip hop mind. Issue 4
San Francisco: BeatBox, 2000. Four-page newsletter, 8.5x11 inches, horizontal fold. Political hip hop updates, with brief notes about Michael Franti, Dilated Peoples, Invisibl Skratch Pickls, Makeba Mooncycle and others. More
Cat.No: 249897
Before Columbus Review [two issues]
Seattle: Before Columbus Foundation, 1989-1990. Two issues of the slender journal, 8.5x11 inches, 23 and 32 pages respectively, first issue on unevenly toned newsprint, later issue on better paper. Numbers present are vol. 1 nos. 1 and 3/4. Multicultural literary review. Contributors include Ishmael Reed, Bob Callahan, Amiri Baraka, Frank..... More
Cat.No: 236104