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
Democratic circus comes to Harlem
Harlem, NY: Harlem branch of the Progressive Labor Party, [1967]. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet printed both sides, creased from folding into quarters, worn and soiled; not found in OCLC. Addresses for two political contacts have been penned in the margin. Criticism of Adam Clayton Powell, probably written by Bill Epton..... More
Cat.No: 147704
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Demonstrate! Boycott classes April 29 Janss Steps UCLA 1:30 [handbill] re: Bakke Decision etc.
Los Angeles: no publisher noted, 1978. Single 8.5x14 inch sheet handbill, fold crease at bottom otherwise very good on yellow stock with bold, black text. Other text reads -Ransacking of BSA Office, Bill Davis Controversy, Irresponsible Journalism by Daily Bruin, TA Cutbacks, Racism in Law School, Racism! with an 11-line..... More
Cat.No: 205737
DENISE ANDERSON, WILLIAM ANDERSON, ROBERT W. CASTLE, ARLENE LATKO, JOEL MYRON, ADRIAN TENHOR AND JERSEY CITY BRANCH OF NAACP, INDIVIDUALLY AND ON BEHALF OF THOSE PERSONS AND ORGANIZATIONS SIMILARLY SITUATED, PLAINTIFFS, v. ARTHUR J. SILLS, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NEW JERSEY, STEVEN NESTOR, POLICE CHIEF OF JERSEY CITY, GEORGE N. BONELLI, SHERIFF OF HUDSON COUNTY AND GEORGE WHELAN, POLICE DIRECTOR OF JERSEY CITY, INDIVIDUALLY AND IN THEIR OFFICIAL CAPACITIES AND AS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CLASS OF POLICE CHIEFS, COUNTY SHERIFFS, MUNICIPAL, COUNTY AND STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS OF NEW JERSEY, DEFENDANTS. Opinion.
n.p. Superior Court of New Jersey; Chancery division, Hudson County, 1969. 11p., 8.5x14 inch sheets stapled together at upper left corner, very good. Civil rights organizers in Hudson County filed the lawsuit against police for tracking their activities and creating secret files; the court finds that the police activities did..... More
Cat.No: 194214
Detroit Reporter: the black and white newspaper. Sept. 4, 1974
Detroit: Detroit Reporter, 1974. 16p., tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, pages toned. Includes an article incorrectly theorizing that Huey Newton, whose whereabouts were unknown at the time, had been killed by white "mafia types." More
Cat.No: 242434
Directory of black Americans in political science, 1977
Washington: The Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession, The American Political Science Association, 1977. Trade Paperback. [vii], 106p., keyboard-set text, first edition, wraps. More
Cat.No: 105810
Directory of historically black colleges and universities in the United States
Washington: National Alliance of Businessmen, 1977. 107p., 8.5x11 inches, wraps. More
Cat.No: 116192
Does American Nurses Association (ANA) have conservative color schemes? [handbill]
[New York]: ANA Chapter, CSAE Local 1707, AFSCME AFL/CIO, 1969. 8.5x11 inch handbill, mimeographed on green paper, lightly fold-creased else good condition. States that two months after negotiating an agreement with the ANA to hire nurses from minority communities, several of the new nurses were being terminated. Outlies the case..... More
Cat.No: 187554
Down for revolution; the RW interview
[Berkeley?]: [Revolution Books], [1990?]. 23 8.5x11 inch sheets, printed single side, light stain on front cover else very good condition. Contains an interview with an imprisoned African American leader of the RCP, reprinted from three 1990 issues of the Revolutionary Worker. More
Cat.No: 128175
The dream lives on [Martin Luther King supplement to The Call newspaper, calling for January 15 to become a national holiday]
Chicago: the Call, [1980]. Four-panel tabloid newspaper format brochure, evenly toned, horizontal fold, otherwise very good. More
Cat.No: 237146
Dreamgirls
New York: The Dreams Company/Raydell Publishing, 1981. 16p., 9x12 inch playbill from the show, profusely illus. with color and black/white photos, wraps. More
Cat.No: 147967
Dynamic, February-March 1990: Special Issue-African American History Month
New York: Young Communist League, 1990. 15p., newsprint magazine, evenly toned else very good condition. Official bimonthly publication of the YCL junior branch of the CPUSA. Articles in this issue include Michael McGarry on the 30th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins, a review of the movie "Glory," and unrelated pieces..... More
Cat.No: 123322
East Bay Cosmotologists Association presents their Eighth Annual Competition. Hairstyles, fashions, Miss East Bay Contest, Prize winning contest for 1974
Berkeley: The Association, 1974. [12p.] 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with ads for local Bay Area African American owned business, photos of members, program for the fashion show and ceremonies, bottom corner bumped and slightly dog-eared otherwise very good in blue stiff wraps with silver printed cover. More
Cat.No: 175191
East Bay Cosmotologists Association presents their Eighth Annual Competition. Hairstyles, fashions, Miss East Bay Contest, Prize winning contest for 1974
Berkeley: The Association, 1974. [12p.] 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with ads for local Bay Area African American owned business, photos of members, program for the fashion show and ceremonies, stiff blue wraps, phone numbers written on an internal page. More
Cat.No: 181340
The Ebony handbook; by the editors of EBONY
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1974. Hardcover. 553p. More
Cat.No: 75016
The economic situation of Negroes in the United States
Washington: U.S. Department of Labor, [196-?]. iii, 32p., scattered pencil underlining, wraps. More
Cat.No: 99092
EdCentric: No. 22 (March 1973)
Washington: National Student Association, 1973. 31p., 8.5x11 inches, very good in wraps. Cover story is "The killings at Southern University: A case of political assassination?" Alleges that the killing of two Black students in Baton Rouge was no accident, but part of an attempt to silence activists. More
Cat.No: 197474
Education for southern citizenship. Plans for study of region's special problems
Atlanta: Conference on Education and Race Relations, 1938. Pamphlet. 8 page pamphlet, 9x6 inch wraps, staples have a touch of rust and the outer corners are slightly bent; a very good copy. Outlines local programs in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and Alabama. More
Cat.No: 178943
El dulce abismo Cartas de amor y esperanza de cinco familias cubanas. Presentatción de Alice Walker, Prólogo de Nancy Morejón
La Habana: Editorial José Martí, 2004. Paperback. 192p., snapshot photos scattered throughout, text entirely in Spanish. Softbound first edition paperback original in 7.5x4.5 inch trade wraps; slight edgewear, a very good copy. The Cuban Five. Alice Walker's introduction (no translator credited) runs to eight pages; she compares their incarceration to..... More
Cat.No: 168522
El Negro no es un color es una saya
La Paz: Gobierno Municipal de La Paz, 1993. [20]p., illus., wraps. More
Cat.No: 48726
El negro no es un color es una saya.
[La Paz, Bolivia]: Gobierno Municipal, [1992]. [15p.], staplebound photoreproduced pamphlet, very good. Text in Spanish. On the Black community in Bolivia, descended from slaves brought in the 16th century. Cover blurb quotes graffiti from Quito: “White men send black men to fight with brown men to defend the land they..... More
Cat.No: 231199
Electrum; the quarterly poetry magazine; no. 35, Winter 1984
Tustin CA: Medina Press, 1984. 52p., staplebound 8.5x7 inch self-wraps, edge-trimmed two-color cover, clean sound copy with mild signs of handling. Otto Rene Castillo, Wanda Coleman, Laurel Ann Bogen, Lyn Lifshin, Ray Lopez, Robert Peters, Jack Hirschman, for starters. The rather thorough vitae list reminds us that Otto Castillo was..... More
Cat.No: 158820
Emergency school aid act of 1970. Extract of Hearings before the General Subcommittee on Education. of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-first Congress, second session on H.R. 17846 and related bills.
Washington DC: GPO, 1970. pp. 333-477, lightly worn wraps. "Bills to assist school districts to meet special problems incident to desegregation in elementary and secondary schools and to provide financial assistance to improve education in racially impacted areas, and for other purposes." More
Cat.No: 197006
The episcopal address to the thirty-seventh quadrennial session of the General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church meeting in Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 5 - 18 nineteen hundred sixty-four
N. pl. the AME Church, 1964. 66p., [vi], errata slip taped to rear wrap. With material on the history of the AME church, its officers, and its positions. More
Cat.No: 102338
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Equality & empowerment [Part 1 and Part 2]. Proceedings from the Communist Party, USA, national conference on African-American Equality and the Struggle Against Racism, held in New York City on October 13-14, 1990
New York: Communist Party USA, 1990. Two 8.5x11 inch pamphlets, 32 and 22 pages respectively, corner of front cover torn off on part I (affecting three words in the table of contents, still discernable from context). Includes the main report, contributions by workshop discussants, the conference summary and resolutions, and..... More
Cat.No: 245706
Ethnic studies journal; spring 2001 issue, volume I, issue 1
San Francisco: College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University, 2001. 164p., very good in wraps. Critical theory, poetry, immigration, and more. Three of fourteen studies are on Filipino Americans, several more on Chinese Americans and other Asia. More
Cat.No: 148210