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 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
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
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
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., illus. with photos, wraps. More
Cat.No: 41163
Beulah Chapter no. 24 Order of the Eastern Star, Prince Hall Rite of Adoption, California and Hawaii 53rd year, yearbook 1975
Oakland: The Order, 1975. 30p., 4.5x6.25 inches, red typeface and illustrated with 6 red-printed photos of members, all but one are women; speech, list of officers, events, committees, list of other chapters. Yellow stapled wraps, badly worn, stained and handling-soiled. More
Cat.No: 175188
Black & White Men Together - SFBA: A Deck of 52 &Getting Our Act Together [two leaflets]
San Francisco: BWMTSFBA, [1981]. Two leaflets, 5.5x8.5 inches printed one side only, very good. Leaflet #1 is for a Gaymes Night & Dance and #2 is a call for joining all gay men together to fight against racism and The New Right or Moral Majority. More
Cat.No: 237103
Black Americans in the Navy
Washington DC: Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Dept. [1978]. Paperback. 48p., 9.25x6 inches landscape format, Black history, historical highlights, future trends, education and training, profiles of the fleet, February historical calendar, b&w and color photos, very good first edition booklet in stapled black pictorial wraps. An informational booklet issued by..... More
Cat.No: 207876
The Black Business Network: A Directory of Black Owned Businesses and Professional Offices in the Birmingham Area; Volume 2, 1983-84
Birmingham, AL: The Research Associates, 1983. 28p., stapled wraps, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 242245