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
First world news: The diversity newspaper of the Lehigh Valley [four issues]
Allentown, PA: Lehigh Valley Black Interest Coalition, 1993-1995. Four issues of the tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, paper toned, otherwise very good. Issues present are vol. 1 nos. 1 and 2, and vol. 3 nos. 1 and 2. "Highlighting the positive aspects of the under-represented ethnic groups in the Lehigh..... More
Cat.No: 239471
Free Angela Davis [poster]
New York: NY Committee to Free Angela Davis, [1971]. 16.75 x 21.5inch poster, very good, with portrait of Angela speaking. More
Cat.No: 240640
Free Billy Dean Smith - Free all of us [pinback button]
n.p. [1972?]. 1.75 inch diameter pin, portrait of Smith in uniform, very good. Smith was eventually acquitted of charges that he had fragged two white officers in Vietnam. More
Cat.No: 267043
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Abolish the racist death penalty!
New York: Spartacist Publishing Company, 1998. 47p., 8.25x11 inches, wraps. Black history and the class struggle 15. More
Cat.No: 139862
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Abolish the racist death penalty!
New York: Spartacist Publishing Company, 1998. 47p., 8.25x11 inches, wraps, very good condition. Black history and the class struggle 15. More
Cat.No: 236838
Free the Camp Pendleton 14. End racism
n.p. Camp Pendleton 14 Defense Committee, [1978]. Six-panel brochure, very good. Includes a blurry photo of demonstrators from the Committee Against Racism hitting David Duke at Camp Pendleton, Calls for demonstrations in support of the fourteen Black marines then in the brig for protesting KKK activities on the base. More
Cat.No: 267703
The Freedom Climb: a chronology of over 400 years of history in America of the afro-American's heroic struggle to gain his rightful place in the country where he lived, fought, struggled, worked, died and loved
Dover, DE: Back Publishing Company, 1969. Pamphlet. 64p., stapled wraps, 4x9 inches, wraps evenly browned and lightly worn else very good condition. This 1492-1968 chronology contains an appendix of Spingarn Medalists. More
Cat.No: 121306
Freedomways, a quarterly review of the freedom movement. Vol. 21 no. 4
New York: Freedomways Associates Inc., 1981. Single issue of the staplebound journal, pp. 228-288, wraps lightly worn, date penned on cover else very good condition. 20th Anniversary issue. Includes an article on the genocide of Native Americans and a series of cartoons on Ronald Reagan. More
Cat.No: 253327
Freedomways, a quarterly review of the freedom movement. Vol. 22 no. 2
New York: Freedomways Associates Inc., 1982. Single issue of the staplebound journal, pp. 66-127, very good. Includes "The South since Memphis" by JH O'Dell, a profile of Civil Rights veteran Anna Devine, and more. More
Cat.No: 253176
Freedomways, a quarterly review of the freedom movement. Vol. 25 no. 1
New York: Freedomways Associates Inc., 1985. Single issue of the staplebound journal, 63p., wraps lightly worn, date penned on front wrap else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 253330
Freedomways, a quarterly review of the freedom movement. Vol. 25 no. 3
New York: Freedomways Associates Inc., 1985. Single issue of the staplebound journal, pp. 130-240, wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Includes poetry by Aaron Kramer, gale jackson, Horace Mungin, and Richard Davidson. Cover is a drawing of Paul Robeson by Vivian R. McDuffie. More
Cat.No: 253328
Freedomways, a quarterly review of the freedom movement. Vol. 15 no. 2
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1975. Single issue of the paperback journal, pp. 84-144, traces of a coffee cup ring on the cover. Includes an editorial, "Joanne Little: America goes on trial," Alice A. Lewis describing an appearance by Angela Davis in Port Gibson, Mississippi to call for the release of..... More
Cat.No: 253183
Freedomways, a quarterly review of the freedom movement. Vol. 9, no. 2 (Spring 1969)
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1969. pp. 101-192., paperback journal, mild handling wear. Cover art by Carles White. More
Cat.No: 253012
Freedomways, a quarterly review of the freedom movement. Vol. 9, no. 3 (Summer 1969)
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1969. pp. 197-288., paperback journal, mild handling, very good. Cover art by John Biggers. Includes Kathryn Jackson on "LeRoi Jones and the New Black Writers of the Sixties," George Fishman on "Paul Robeson's student days and the fight against racism at Rutgers," and more... More
Cat.No: 253010
Freedomways: a quarterly review of the freedom movement. vol. 10, no. 4 (Fourth quarter, 1970)
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1970. pp. 308-399, paperback journal, mild shelfwear. Includes Porter Kirkwood's "America's youth culture: a revolutionary potential?" as well as "Art and liberation" by Richard G. Hatcher, and a symposium on the GI movement against the war, with Ralph David Abernathy, Howard Levy, and J.H. O'Dell, and..... More
Cat.No: 253006
Freedomways: a quarterly review of the freedom movement. vol. 12, no. 2 (Second quarter, 1972)
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1972. pp. 100-176., paperback journal, light shelfwear, very good. Includes a speech by Shirley Chisholm, a piece by Communist VP candidate Jarvis Tyner, and much more. More
Cat.No: 253008
Freedomways: a quarterly review of the freedom movement. vol. 12, no. 4 (Fourth quarter, 1972)
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1972. pp. 268-359., paperback journal, very good. Cover art by Cliff Joseph. Includes several items on the Paul Laurence Dunbar centennial, Jesse Jackson on challenges to organized labor, and more. More
Cat.No: 253009
Freedomways: a quarterly review of the freedom movement. Vol. 8 no. 4 (Fall 1968)
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1968. Paperback journal, pp. 301-424, light shelfwear. This issue is devoted to the theme of "The crisis in education and the changing Afro-American community," with contributions from Horace Mann Bond, Brumsic Brandon, Doxey A. Wilkerson, and many others. More
Cat.No: 253013
Freedomways: A Quarterly Review of the Negro Freedom Movement. Vol. 6, no. 4, Fall, 1966 (Fourth quarter)
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1966. 293-396p., wraps slightly shelfworn else very good condition. Cover art by John Devine. Includes Jack O'Dell's "Colonialism and the Negro American experience," Tim Black's "Chicago Negro labor and civil rights," Special section in memory of Eslanda Robeson, Cartoons by Brumsic Brandon, and more. More
Cat.No: 211221
FS: Feminist studies; vol. 8, #2, Summer 1982
College Park: Feminist Studies, Inc., 1982. Paperback. 231-456p. [i.e., 225 pages of text] plus appended materials, very good trade paperback journal in white pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 251538
George Washington Carver Foundation / Tuskegee Institute [six perforated stamps]
Tuskegee, AL: the Foundation, n.d. Group of six stamps of the same type, not yet separated along perforations, depicting Carver with chemistry lab equipment. Issued for use in fundraising rather than as postage, this type of stamp is known as a "cinderalla." Very good condition, each stamp 1.5x2 inches. Undated..... More
Cat.No: 180182
Glad Rag: news of your community & beyond [two issues]
Oakland: Glad Rag, 1985. Two issues of the 12-page tabloid format newspaper, vol. 7 nos. 5 and 7, both with horizontal fold, paper toned. Largely focused on local issues of importance to Black residents, but also the broader Oakland community, including a profile of Rev. Gordon Kwong-Sum Lau. More
Cat.No: 262108
Go down Garvey curriculum guide
Palo Alto: TheatreWorks, 1991. 53p., 8.5x11 inches, holepunched wraps attached by brads. Study guide for the musical. More
Cat.No: 74432
Granada: el mundo contra el crimen
Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 1983. 325p., illus. with numerous photos, wraps, lightly worn else very good condition. Text in Spanish. More
Cat.No: 85757
The Great American Negro Calendar 1977
San Mateo, CA: Patterson & O'Connell, 1977. Calendar. 28p. calendar, each month illus. with 8-10 panels depicting the life of a prominent Black American (Frances Harper, Duke Ellington, James P. Beckwourth, Charles Spaulding, etc.), wraps lightly foxed along edges else good condition. Calendar sponsored by Patterson & O'Connell, a San..... More
Cat.No: 42287