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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Boston School Bus Union Victory, USW 8751, side by side...
Boston: Workers World Party, c2015. 83p., 5.5x8.5 inch staplebound pamphlet; in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 346368
Boycott Oneita
Oakland: Oneita Strike Support Committee, [1973]. Four-panel brochure, 7x8.5 inches, mild toning. Asks the reader to boycott Oneita underwear to protest the company's crackdowns on union organizing among the largely Black workforce in rural South Carolina. More
Cat.No: 344246
Brentwood: a film revue magazine; #4: Don't Tease Me film...
San Francisco: Brentwood, [1970s]. Magazine. [32p] includes covers, 8.5x11, very little text, all color stills from the pornographic film, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Interracial action between two roommates. More
Cat.No: 297754
Bring Yanks Home / Yank the Cops from Harlem /...
Richmond Hill, NY: SWP; mfg. by Columbia Advertising, [196-]. Pinback Button. 1.5 inch diameter pin, black and white, very good. More
Cat.No: 207323
The Broad Ax. Vol. 1 no. 4 (July 1974)
Salt Lake City: Black Studies Institute, University of Utah, 1974. Newspaper. 12p. tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, paper evenly toned, otherwise very good. Radical paper published by Black students. Cover story, and additional content, criticizing the Fourth of July. More
Cat.No: 304011
The Broad Ax. Vol. 1 no. 5 (August 1974)
Salt Lake City: Black Studies Institute, University of Utah, 1974. Newspaper. 16p. tabloid format newspaper, horizontal fold, paper evenly toned, otherwise very good. Radical paper published by Black students. This includes much discussion of racism in the LDS community, both historical and contemporary, with a cover story on discrimination against..... More
Cat.No: 304010
Bubbling brown sugar! A musical revue, Harlem 1910-1940
New York: MCM Ventures, [1978?]. 20p. illus. playbill for the Loften Mitchell musical, 12x9 inches, stapled wraps, lightly worn, a few small stains on front wrap else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 44170
Buck Sheet: along the Ledo Road. Vol. 2 no. 169...
n.p. Special Services, 1944. Newsletter. Single issue of the mimeographed newsletter produced for servicemen along the Ledo Road in the India-Burma-China theatre. 8.5x14 inches, fold-creased, reverse somewhat smudged but still legible. Updates on the war effort against Germany and the Japanese forces in the Philippines, with an article celebrating Ross..... More
Cat.No: 273230
Building black community through struggle;negro history week/black liberation month (February...
Santa Barbara, CA: [Center for Black Studies, UCSB], 1977. 12p., folded tabloid style format; Coverage on the clack power struggle at the University of California Santa Barbara. "Building Black unity through struggle is a special supplement prepared by the Santa Barbara Black community with the assistance of the Center for..... More
Cat.No: 331612
The Burning Spear (May 1989)
Oakland: African People's Socialist Party, 1989. 28p. tabloid newspaper, folded, with address label on front cover. PanAfricanist perspective on local and national issues, including a cover story on the arrest of APSP members in Tampa, Florida. More
Cat.No: 348408
The Burning Spear; voice of the international African revolution. Vol...
Oakland: African People's Socialist Party, 1991. Newspaper. 20p. folded tabloid newspaper, illustrated with photos and cartoons, evenly toned. Cover headline: "“Party-led struggle frees Kerano Hawkins from the State, after she defends her family by killing a white man who attacked her in Wilmington, Delaware. Party defeats the State's attempt to..... More
Cat.No: 304469
The California DWB report; a report from the highways, trenches...
San Francisco: American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of California, 2002. 56p., 8,5x11 inches, printed cover letter laid in, a few small stains else very good in wraps with subtitle, "Driving while black or brown" More
Cat.No: 160965
California minority business enterprises directory. March 1978, with limited out...
Emeryville, CA: Source Publication, 1978. Paperback. 12, 29, 8, 8, 1, 306p., wraps with pen notes on front wrap, some check marks and x's in text otherwise in good condition, 8.5x11 inches. More
Cat.No: 346387
California Speaks: Language Diversity and English Proficiency by Legislative District
[Los Angeles]: Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California / Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, [c2000]. Paperback. 190p., wraps, tables, wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Uses data from the 2000 census. More
Cat.No: 303878
A Call to the 22nd Annual Conference of the Los...
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Committee for Defense of the Bill of Rights, 1972. Four-panel brochure, 8.5x11 inches, bilingual text in English and Spanish. Neatly fold-creased for mailing, otherwise very good. "1972: The Dirty War Goes On. The horror of our prisons remains a living reality, both the outer prisons called..... More
Cat.No: 339126
Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, Louann, Arkansas, Rev. J.E. Johnson. Dedication...
[Louann, AR]: Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, 1983. Ephemera. 1983. [8] pages, illustrations, wraps. 11.25 x 8.5 in. Good. Edge worn, with corners bumped and creased on covers. Long inscription on page [7] signed Alma Elliot. Church brochure with service schedule and dinner menu. Alma Elliot, the Church Clerk, has written..... More
Cat.No: 301797
Cancer among blacks and othe minorities: statistical profiles
Rockville, MD: National Cancer Institute, USDHHS, 1986. ix, 273p., 8.5x11 inches, slightly worn wraps. Almost entirely charts and graphs, with more of African Americans and whites than other ethniciteis. More
Cat.No: 108116
The Case of the Atmore-Holman Brothers & the IFA: Murder...
Birmingham, AL: Inmates For Action Defense Fund, [1975]. Newspaper. Four-page pamphlet in tabloid newspaper format, horizontal fold crease, "Rec'd Feb. 1975" penciled in lower right corner, otherwise very good. Not found in OCLC as of March 2023, but an example is held among the Southern Patriot files at the Auburn..... More
Cat.No: 300525
Castro Street Fair: The Official Guide to the 30th Annual...
San Francisco: The Fair Committee, 2003. Magazine. 32p. 5.5x8.5 inches, articles, event schedule, map, ads, photos, very good digest-size event program in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 330524
Cathedral School for Boys 2003; yearbook
San Francisco: Cathedral School for Boys, 2003. 44p., 8x11 inches, b&w photos, pictorial boards. More
Cat.No: 145375
Celebrating the drum; 4th annual Eddie Moore Festival, August 1-8...
Oakland: Jazz In Flight, 1993. Magazine. [24p] 8.25x10.75 program for the festival, illustrated with photos and ads, very good in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 134627
Central America alert: Vol. II, No. 6, October 1984
San Francisco: USOCA, 1983. Newsletter. 11p., folded tabloid newspaper format, evenly toned, lightly worn, small stain on front wrap else very good condition on newsprint. Articles on Reagan's reelection and its consequences for Central America, African Americans, and the Cold War, the elections in Nicaragua, and more. USOCA was a...... More
Cat.No: 252196
Challenge, the Revolutionary Communist Newspaper Extra (May 12, 1969)
Brooklyn: Progressive Labor Party, 1969. [4]p. folded tabloid format newspaper; evenly toned, slightly misfolded, rubberstamp on front cover, otherwise very good. Cover story on "Auto Workers Rebel! fight wage-cuts, speed-up, racism, sellouts." On wildcat strikes at Chrysler started by African-American workers. More
Cat.No: 349374
Challenge: official publication of the Young People's Socialist League [four...
New York: Young People's Socialist League. 1958-1959. Newspaper. Four issues of the newspaper, perhaps all published; vol. 1 nos. 1 and 2 and vol. 2 nos. 1 and 2; 4 pages each, tabloid format on toned newsprint. Much coverage of civil rights: Volume one, number 1 has an approximately 19..... More
Cat.No: 178863
The Challenger: the newsletter of Men of All Colors Together...
Philadelphia: MACT, 1992. Newsletter. Four issue broken run of the newsletter, various pagination, 8.5x11 inches, stapled sheets, information, events, services and resources, ads, good condition. Issues include: April, June,September & November 1992. More
Cat.No: 343004
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