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
American Documentary Films: 1972 Media Catalogue
New York: American Documentary Films, 1972. Pamphlet. 46p., stapled wraps, 5.25x8.25 inches, address label on rear wrap else very good condition. Advertises leftist films on topics including the Vietnam War, labor history, women's liberation, Black liberation, Mexican-Americans, and much more. More
Cat.No: 272395
American labor history: Race and ethnicity in the working class
Somerville: New England Free Press, [1973]. Pamphlet. 48p., wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps lightly worn and soiled else very good condition. Short book reviews and bibliography. A Radical American Pamphlet. 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
Analysis, Lest we forget
Belmont, MA: The Review of the News, 1968. Pamphlet. 8p., stapled wraps, 5.5x7.5 inches, very good condition. Reprint of "Analysis" article from the April 24, 1968 issue of Review of the News, as a separate pamphlet. John Birch Society viewpoint. John Birch Society perspective arguing that Martin Luther King Jr...... More
Cat.No: 179776
Analysis, Lest we forget
Belmont, MA: The Review of the News, 1968. Pamphlet. 8p., stapled wraps, 5.5x7.5 inches, very good condition. Reprint of "Analysis" article from the April 24, 1968 issue of Review of the News, as a separate pamphlet. John Birch Society viewpoint. John Birch Society perspective arguing that Martin Luther King Jr...... More
Cat.No: 271075
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 American studies, address label on rear wrap else 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 district Espicopal Church
Wilberforce: the Conference, 1944. 12p. program, including a 2p. Who's Who, very good in stapled wraps. More
Cat.No: 121304
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Answer the critics of F.E.P.C. Try this quiz at home [cover title, caption title -] Arguments most frequently used for and against Federal permanent FEPC legislation.
Washington, D.C. National Council for a Permanent F.E.P.C., [1945]. Pamphlet. 15p., illustrated wraps, 6x9 inches, very good condition, fundraising leaflet for the group by Dorothy Norman laid in. Pamphlet supporting S-101 and H.R. 2232, laws intended to make the wartime Fair Employment Practice Committee legislation (prohibiting discrimination against Black and..... More
Cat.No: 168168
An anthropologist looks at the race question; in Social Action, volume xi, no. 2 February 15, 1945
New York: Council for Social Action, of the Congregational Christian Churches, 1945. 48p., very good in wraps with a photo of Joe Louis in uniform on the front; cover story by Hortense Powdermaker. The issue, devoted to ''significant intercultural and interracial experiments" includes material on Jewish Americans and African Americans..... More
Cat.No: 145335
The Assassination and Significance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Being addresses delivered at Trenchard Hall, University of Ibadan, 11 April, 1968.
Ibadan, Nigeria: Martin Luther King Memorial Committee, 1970. Pamphlet. 30p., staplebound booklet, mild smudging to the cover. Collection of speeches, mostly by university officials. More
Cat.No: 270667
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
Attica… did not start here nor will it end here! No. 1 (November 1971)
Buffalo, NY: National Lawyers Guild, Buffalo Chapter, 1971. 4p. newsletter in tabloid newspaper format, evenly toned, horizontal fold, very good. “The National Lawyers Guild, Buffalo Chapter, is publishing this newsletter in an effort to provide a link between community and prison. A link that can add strength to movements inside..... More
Cat.No: 270386
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
August 8, 1978: story of the MOVE 9
Cambridge: Revolution Books, [1996?]. [16]p., stapled wraps, photos in text, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good photocopied zine. More
Cat.No: 121226
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
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
Berkeley Public Library's Annual Lesbian & Gay Author Reading: a unique and comfortable opportunity for cross-cultural dialog between the gay and straight communities [handbill] Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Darieck Scott & Canyon Sam
Berkeley: Friends of the Library, no date. Single 11x8.5 inch handbill in landscape format on lavender stock with photos of the three authors and event information, lightly-stained otherwise good. More
Cat.No: 229999
Bethany's Church Choir annual day, Sunday, September 26, 1993 5400 Adeline Street, Oakland, CA [souvenir program]
Oakland: Bethany's Church, 1993. Four panel souvenir program, 8.5x11 inches, list of deceased members, program for the event, officers and committees, single song sheet "We've Come This far By Faith" by Albert A. Goodson laid-in, very good. More
Cat.No: 207141
Bethel Baptist Church: seventeenth annual scholarship awards program, Sunday, June 18, 1978
Oakland: the Church, 1978. 24p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, illus. with photos, wraps lightly worn, small stain on rear wrap else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 41163