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
CSERA News: A bi-monthly newsletter from the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America (CSERA), University of Colorado at Boulder; Volume 7, No. 1, November 1993
Boulder, CO: CSERA, 1993. 7p., self wraps secured by folding, 8.5 x 11 inches, creased from being folded in half for mailing, address label on rear wrap else very good condition. The Center encompessed the Afroamerican, American Indian, Asian American, and Chicano Studies departments at the University. More
Cat.No: 251017
Cuba: Country Free of Segregation / Pays Sans Discimination Raciale
Havana: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, [1960s]. 20p. + [12]p. of black and white photos, stapled wraps, 9.5 x 6.25 inches landscape format, wraps worn and soiled else good condition. Text in English and French. Not dated, but quotes several speeches given by Cuban politicians in the '60s, the latest of..... More
Cat.No: 247761
Cultural Correspondence new series #2 (Winter 1983)
New York: Cultural Correspondence, 1983. Magazine. 96p., 8.5x11 inches, illus., wraps slightly edge worn else very good condition. Includes C.L.R. James at Black Ink: on Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange. Other contents include a special section on radical humor and an arts roundup. More
Cat.No: 130470
Curriculum for Social Change
Cambridge, MA: [authors], 1969. [43p.], dittoed 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled together at upper left corner, very good. A course project undertaken by radical students at Harvard; cover sheet identifies the course as "T-102, Dr. Belanger;" the group submitting this project was Group A. "The objective of the community self training..... More
Cat.No: 195415
Dance Black America April 21-24, 1983
New York: Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1983. 47p, 8.5 x 10 inches, wraps, illustrated with black & white photos, program for festival on the roots of black dance including African and Caribbean slave dances through hip hop, not in OCLC. This festival was captured on film by D A Pennebacker..... More
Cat.No: 169614
De Colores: Newsletter of the Bay Area Lesbians of Color Summer 1988
San Francisco: BALOC, 1988. 8p., 5.5x8.5 inches, articles, events, illustrations, services and resources, very good newsletter on lavender stock. Includes discussion of Jesse Jackson’s second campaign for president. More
Cat.No: 225631
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De negers en de nieuwe president; [cover title]; Presidents-verkiezing en het Neger-probleem* in AO, 9 Nov. 1956
Amsterdam: AO-reeks Stichting IVIO, 1956. 16p., illus. wraps decorated in red white & blue with stereotype portrait of Aunt Jemima type. The president referred to was Dwight Eisenhower; article discusses Jim Crow laws. More
Cat.No: 33969
Delegate 1986
New York: Delegate, 1986. Oversized Paperback. 228p., illus., 8.5x11 inches, wraps. For two decades, Delegate served as a guide to the meetings and activities of African American leadership organizations. More
Cat.No: 42231
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. 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 and asks the..... 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, containing an interview with an imprisoned African American leader of the RCP, reprinted from three 1990 issues of the Revolutionary Worker. More
Cat.No: 128175
Draft REB Perspectives Thesis: War and Revolution
Detroit, MI: News & Letters, 1971. 17p., wraps somewhat smudged and soiled, mimeographed interior pages clean. Pre-Plenum Bulletin no. 2. Critique of Trotskyism, particularly its role in the black struggle. "The more they 'glorify' black 'leaders,' the less they work for unity with the Black masses in the anti-Vietnam War..... More
Cat.No: 129632
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 [April-May 1990]
New York: Young Communist League, 1990. 15p., newsprint magazine. Official bimonthly publication of the YCL, junior branch of the CPUSA. Articles in this issue include Joe Sims, "Under attack and fighting back: African American youth today," Jim Badger, "Hands off Cuba," and an interview with Gus Hall. More
Cat.No: 123325
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