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
Afrikan Student Literary Magazine. Spring 1993
Berkeley: ASLM, 1993. 50p., slender paperback, very good. Published by students at UC Berkeley. More
Cat.No: 220443
Afrikan Student Literary Magazine. Vol. 1 Book II (Spring 1990)
Berkeley: ASLM, 1990. 34p., staplebound wraps, neatly ex-library, couple of small coffee splatters on front cover. Published by students at UC Berkeley. Features an interview with Barbara Christian. More
Cat.No: 220441
Afro-Americans in American history; brief biographies of nine outstanding men and women, drawings by Carl Owens
New York: Pepsi-Cola, [1970?]. [12p] 4.75x6.75 inches, illustrated biographical sketches, creased vertically otherwise a very good pamphlet in stapled white pictorial wraps. Crispus Attucks, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass et al. More
Cat.No: 139782
Afro-centric xwordz & puzzlez; crosswords & puzzles based on African American history & culture, volume 1, issue 1
Mililani, HI: Kane Publications, 1998. Magazine. 84p., wraps. Various word games. More
Cat.No: 106411
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
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'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
America's tenth man; a brief survey of the Negro's part in American history
Atlanta: Conference on Education and Race Relations, 1940. 16p., later printing, wraps. SRC #2. More
Cat.No: 38621
America's tenth man; a brief survey of the Negro's part in American history
Atlanta: Conference on Education and Race Relations, 1937. 15p., fifteenth edition, wraps, small private ownership stamp on front cover. SRC #2. More
Cat.No: 196124
American Jazz Ensemble featuring William O. Smith, Clarinet, John Eaton, Piano, Friday, March 4, 1966, auditorium-gymnasium, 8:30 pm
[Baton Rouge]: Southern University, 1966. 4p. program for the Southern University Lyceum series concert. More
Cat.No: 42289
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
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
Answer the critics of F.E.P.C. Try this quiz at home
Washington, D.C. National Council for a Permanent F.E.P.C., [1945]. 15p., illustrated wraps, very good. Pamphlet supporting S-101 and H.R. 2232, laws intended to make the wartime Fair Employment Practice Committee legislation (prohibiting discrimination against Black and other minority workers) permanent. Lists common objections to the law ("Conflicts and even race..... More
Cat.No: 168168
Aperture: number one hundred twenty-six, Winter 1992: Haiti: feeding the spirit
New York: Aperture, 1992. Oversized Paperback. 76p., profusely illus. with both color and black/white photos, 9.5x11 inches, first edition, wraps, somewhat worn with handling. More
Cat.No: 47851
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
Atlanta weeps for its children [handbill]
Oakland: Allen J. Gandy, [198-]. 14x8.5 inch handbill, one side a photocopy from a magazine of photos of 18 of the 21 Atlanta children murdered around 1980, the other side with Gandy's address and call to bible study; fold creases, good copy. More
Cat.No: 120649
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
The availability of education in the Negro separate school; in the Journal of Negro Education, vol. XVI, no. 3, summer 1947
Washington: Howard University Press, 1947. Paperback. 216p., wraps, 4p. mimeo'd news release laid in. The entire issue, devoted to a survey of segregated school systems in 17 states and DC, contains articles on legal and institutional factors, the availability of education in the southern states, and availability at the different..... More
Cat.No: 78040