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.
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The black presence series; the arts, history, folklore, sports, music, literature, education, invention, the military
New York: Pepsico, [198-?]. 24p. including ten pages of reproductions of the posters from the series (Robeson, Tubman, Bethune, etc., second version, wraps. This version adds the poster of Madame C. J. Walker. Could Clarence Holte, who worked for Pepsi, have inspired this series. More
Cat.No: 114659
Black prison movements USA; the NOBO journal of AfricanAmerican dialogue, volume II, number 1
Trenton: Africa World Press, 1995. xii, 184p., illustrations, lightly worn wraps. More
Cat.No: 68468
A black quartet; four new black plays by Ben Caldwell, Ronald Milner, Ed Bullins and Leroi Jones, with an introduction by Clayton Riley
New York: Signet/New American Library, 1970. Mass Market Paperback. xxiii, 158p. + 8p. photos, first printing, wraps; worn and acidic, with a dampstain that affects the first dozen leaves. Paperback original. More
Cat.No: 137992
The Black Scholar Volume 2, numbers 6 and 7 (Feb. and March 1971). Pan-Africanism I and II
Sausalito: The Black World Foundation, 1971. 64p. each, very good in wraps; parts I and II in two separate issues. Contributors include Julius Nyerere, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Sekou Toure, Amiri Baraka and others. More
Cat.No: 179664
The Black Scholar Volume 3, number 6, February 1972
Sausalito: The Black World Foundation, 1972. 64p., very good in wraps, Malcolm X cover. Issue on "The Black Colony, USA" with contributions by Imari Abubakari Obadele, Charles C. Diggs Jr. on why he dropped out of the American delegation to the UN (opposition to official US policies on apartheid and... More
Cat.No: 179665
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The Black Scholar [26 issues of the journal]
San Francisco: The Black World Foundation, 1970-1988. Magazine. Twenty-six issues of the monthly journal, spanning March 1970 to January/February 1988. Issues present are: Volume 1 Number 5, Volume 2 Numbers 2 and 4, Volume 3 Numbers 5 and 9, Volume 5 Number 8 and 10, Volume 6 Numbers 1, 2... More
Cat.No: 227641
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The Black Scholar [48 issues of the journal]
San Francisco: The Black World Foundation, 1969-1988. Magazine. Fourty-eight issues of the monthly journal, spanning December 1969 to January/February 1988. Issues present are: Volume 1 Numbers 2, 5, and 8, Volume 2 Numbers 2, 4, and 6, Volume 3 Numbers 1, 3, 5, and 9, Volume 4 Numbers 8-9 [combined... More
Cat.No: 227634
The Black Scholar; special summer issue, volume 6, number 9, June 1975
Sausalito, CA: The Black World Foundation, 1975. 96p., wraps. Arts & literature issue, with poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks, Linda Brown Bragg, David Henderson, Joyce Carol Thomas, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Adam David Miller, Alice Walker and Michael Harper, and prose contributions by Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Catlett, Marvin X, Cecil Brown... More
Cat.No: 123076
Black/Out: the magazine of the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays vol. 2, #1, Fall 1988
Washington: National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays, 1988. Magazine. 60p., 8.5x11 inches, staplebound magazine with mild handling wear. This issue marks the tenth anniversary of the NCBLG. More
Cat.No: 194280
Blacks and Hispanics in the United States; sixth in a series of reports which compile and interpret statiscal information of direct concern to life insurance executives
Washington: American Council of Life Insurance, 1979. 46p., wraps. DataTrack 6. More
Cat.No: 53582
" Blacks in flicks" at Knoxville, Tennessee 1969-1970
Knoxville: Knoxville College, 1969. 8-panel brochure for a film-study project on the African American in the film industry at Knoxville College. More
Cat.No: 154988
Blacks in the federal government
Chicago: Empak Publishing Company, 1991. 32p., illus., wraps. Educational pamphlet . A gift of heritage 9. More
Cat.No: 167411
Blacks:USA:1973; the New York Cultural Center in association with Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2 Columbus Circle, September 26 to November 15, 1973
New York: the Center, 1973. [27]p., wraps, 11 x 8.5 inches. Profusely illus. exhibition catalog of works by African American artists, including Betye Saar, Kassan, and many others. More
Cat.No: 20508
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Blessed Martin De Porres, OP. An American Negro. Apostle of Charity / Prayer for conversion of the Negroes [prayer card]
[Alabama]: Mother Mary Missions; imprimatur: T.J. Toolen, Bishop of Mobile-Birmingham, 1942. 2.75x3.75 inch card, color portrait of De Porres one side, text of the prayer on the other; very good. De Porres, who died in Lima in 1639, is the patron saint of people of interracial ancestry and and seekers... More
Cat.No: 191669
The Blues aesthetic: Black culture and Modernism; publicity packet for the touring exhibit
San Diego: The Museum of Photographic Arts & American Express, 1989. Glossy 9x12 inch publicity folder containing press materials for the traveling exhibit including artist list and brochure. From a collection of Pele DeLappe, theatre and arts writer for The People's Daily World. More
Cat.No: 157082
Blues unlimited: all blues all the time; number 107, April/May 1974
London: Blues Unlimited, 1974. Magazine. 32p. including covers, 8.25x11.75 inches, photos, ads, reviews, interviews, very good magazine, newsprint, stapled pictorial wraps. Mighty Joe Young, nPee Wee Crayton, Lloyd Glenn, Little Boyd and more New Orleans. UK Blues periodical. More
Cat.No: 183366
Bolshevik revolution. No. 5 (August 1980)
New York: Bolshevik League of the United States, 1980. Single issue of the journal, 16p., very good in wraps, 8.5x11 inches. Includes a report on the Black United Front congress, a report on two "traitors" on the BL central committee being discovered and purged, and more. More
Cat.No: 177110
The Boneyard Examiner, Vol. 1, No. 12, December 13,1971
Urbana, IL: n.p., 1971. 8p., folded tabloid, a few spots on front wraps, light toning at spine. An underground newspaper published in the home of the University of Illinois. Cover has a large photo of Vietnamese guerillas with the headline "Happy Anniversary NLF." Articles on a Graduate Assistants' Union, Angela... More
Cat.No: 162049
Breaking racial barriers; African Americans in the Harmon Foundation collection, preface by David C. Driskell, introduction by Tuliza K. Fleming
Washington and San Francisco: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution and Pomegranate Artbooks, 1997. 126p., profusely illus. with color portraits of Black trailblazers, 8.5x11 inches, first printing, wraps. More
Cat.No: 38985
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Bring Yanks Home / Yank the Cops from Harlem / Vote Socialist Workers [pinback button]
Richmond Hill, NY: SWP; mfg. by Columbia Advertising, [196-]. 1.5 inch diameter pin, black and white, very good. More
Cat.No: 207323
Brother man no. 3
Irving, TX: Big City Comics, 1991. [24]p. black/white comix, wraps. Drawn by African American cartoonist Dawud Anyabwyle under his previous name, David Sims. Big city comics no. 2. More
Cat.No: 112283
Bubbling brown sugar! A musical revue, Harlem 1910-1940
New York: MCM Ventures, [1978?]. 20p. illus. playbill for the Loften Mitchell musical, 12x9 inches, wraps. More
Cat.No: 44170
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The Buffalo Soldiers: November 16, 1993 - May 29, 1994, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Inst. [brochure]
Washington DC: National Museum of American History, 1993. Six-panel folded brochure 4.75x8.5 inches, illustrations including line drawings of the insignia, brief texts on history of the Buffalo soldiers, very good. More
Cat.No: 214731
Burial Ceremony for Eastern Stars of International Masons, Inc.
Detroit: International Masons, Inc., n.d. Paperback. 12p., 4x5.75 inches, stiff wraps mildly toned at edges, staplebound, signature of former owner on inside cover, else very good. 4-page Syllabus of additional Eastern Star material from Ezra A Cook, Publisher laid in. Burial Ceremony for the Eastern Star affiliated with the International..... More
Cat.No: 224282
BWMTSC News: two issues
no place: Black & White Men Together Southern California, 2007. Two issues, single 8.5x11 inch sheets printed both sides, events, news, members, illustrations, very good. Issue number one, February 2007 and the April 2007 issue, unnumbered. The organization was mainly represented by online web site information. More
Cat.No: 230084
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