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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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: 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
The Challenger: the newsletter of People of All Colors Together...
Philadelphia: PACT, 2019. Newsletter. Two issues, 8p. & 6p., 8.5x11 inches, stapled sheets, information, events, services and resources, ads, good condition. More
Cat.No: 342947
The Chancel Choir of the North Oakland Missionary Baptist Church...
Oakland: the Church, 1988. [12]p., 8.5x11 inches, stapled wraps with biblical quotation, faint fold-crease else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 107467
The Chancel Choir of the North Oakland Missionary Baptist Church...
Oakland: North Oakland Missionary Baptist Church, 1987. [8]p., 8.5x11 inches, wraps, very good condition. Cover title: "Praise the Lord, o my soul" More
Cat.No: 107466
Changing patterns in the new south; a unique record of...
Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1955. Staplebound. 116p., second printing, very good in wraps. More
Cat.No: 39591
The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Los Angeles Lay District presents...
Los Angeles: The Church, 1965. [16p] includes covers, 8.75x11.25 inches, program for the event, photos, local business ads, soiling to covers and the letters I.D.W. in ink on cover otherwise a good souvenir program booklet in stapled white printed wraps. African American church and Lay District organization as well as..... More
Cat.No: 224654
Civil Rights
npl: npub, [c1964?]. [3p]., corner stapled 8.5x11 inch sheets; two essays the second being 1 page and reprinted from the New York Daily in 1964. First essay source is unknown. Some rubbing on pages, slight edgewear, else very good. "If the so-called Civil Rights Bill passes in the Senate, bid..... More
Cat.No: 328231
The Civil War centennial and the Negro; slavery, Civil War...
Los Angeles: Vanguard Society of America, 1961. 56p., first printing, staplebound pamphlet. Rear cover unevenly toned. An attempt to establish the key role played by blacks during the Civil War, and to combat the Confederate/White supremacist view of history. More
Cat.No: 27544
Claude Lightfoot and Jack Kling: a tribute, May 17, 1987
Chicago: State Committee, Illinois District, Communist Party, USA, 1987. Pamphlet. [24]p. program, stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition with addendum sheet laid in. Commemoration of the two Chicago-area Communist activists, done after their retirement. More
Cat.No: 108592
Claude Lightfoot and Jack Kling: a tribute, May 17, 1987
Chicago: State Committee, Illinois District, Communist Party, USA, 1987. Pamphlet. [24]p. program, stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. Commemoration of the two Chicago-area Communist activists, done after their retirement. More
Cat.No: 160233
Clear Kenneth Johnson
Buffalo, NY: The Kenneth Johnson Defense Fund, [1976]. Pamphlet. Six-panel brochure, 4.75x8.5 inches, very good. On the case of an African American community activist in prison for rape; alleges that he has been framed and lists cases from the past of false rape charges against African American men. More
Cat.No: 177697
[Collection of 22 handbills by and pertaining to the Black...
Ann Arbor, MI: [Black Action Movement & related groups], [c1970]. In March 1970, the student organization Black Action Movement asked the University of Michigan to increase the number of black students on campus to reflect the population of the state and to increase the number of black faculty, among other..... More
Cat.No: 342285
[Collection of 4 gay cards from Black is More Than...
Los Angeles: B.M.B., Inc., 1984. Four 5x7 inch folded pictorial cards featuring black models by Black Is MORE Than Beautiful. All items are in very good condition, with clean and unmarked interiors. More
Cat.No: 345019
[Collection of 7 gay cards from Black is More Than...
Los Angeles: B.M.B., Inc., 1984. Six 5x7 inch folded pictorial cards featuring black models by Black Is MORE Than Beautiful and one by Snapshot Cards of Sausalito, California. All items are in very good condition, with clean and unmarked interiors. More
Cat.No: 345017
The color purple; a gala premiere benefitting the San Francisco...
[San Francisco]: n. pub. 1985. 24p., illus., 8.5x11 inches, very good condition. Program for the benefit opening of the film version of Alice Walker's novel. More
Cat.No: 19573
Columbia Trustee and District Attorney Hogan: Drop the racist frameup...
New York: Columbia-Barnard SDS, [1970]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch mimeographed handbill printed both sides, very good. Asserts a long history of discriminatory behavior by District Attorney Hogan, accusing him of having "picked up every Panther he could find" and charging them with "all kinds of heinous things. They have been sitting..... More
Cat.No: 313430

























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