[Los Angeles: Earl Newman Posters, 1969]. Psychedelic poster featuring a large, illustrated portrait of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton, surrounded by a blazing sun in the background, and the Black Panther logo printed along the lower margin. The artwork was designed by English artist Bill Olive, who moved to..... More
Berkeley, CA: Bay Area Committee to Defend Political Freedom, 1968. First Edition. Contents reprinted from articles originally appearing during the summer of 1968 in The People's World, detailing Rosebury's coverage of the Huey Newton trial beginning on July 20th and concluding on September 14th. Contains detailed reportage as the case..... More
New York: The New York Media Project, 1970. First Edition. A compelling document, consisting of an article on the Black Panther Party published in the February 23, 1970 issue of Newsweek magazine that has been critically annotated by The New York Media Project. Within a week of publication, Elbert "Big..... More
[Buffalo: Socialist Workers Party, 1956]. Broadside issued by the Socialist Workers Party toward the halfway point of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, announcing a talk by Farrell Dobbs (1907-1983), national secretary of the SWP, who had recently returned from Montgomery where he covered the boycott for The Militant. Later in life..... More
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1968. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on disarming an army base, a protest of GI's at the Presidio Army Base, election day in San Francisco and Ann Arbor, the Dodge Rebellion, the Oakland 7 trial, revolution in..... More
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1968. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on the Texas Southern Five, the Levi Strikers' Co-op, middle-class organizing, and the 1968 election. Tabloid (44cm); illustrated newsprint wrappers; 16pp; illus. Light wear and toning to extremities, faint horizontal fold..... More
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1969. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on the Presidio mutiny, the Ft. Dix Rebellion, the types of tear gas used during Berkeley protests, workers taking power in Appalachia, coverage of the Chicano Youth Liberation Conference, Venceremos Brigade..... More
[Atlanta]: The Committee on Appeal for Human Rights and The Student--Adult Liaison Committee, [1960]. Circular produced by the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR), formed in February, 1960 by a group of Atlanta University Center students who coordinated a variety of sit-ins, boycotts, and non-violent events to demand racial..... More
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1969. First Edition. This issue of the SNCC and SDS-affiliated paper contains articles on the United Farm Workers, SDS calling for a National Action in Chicago (on Oct.8-11), the frame-up of Martin Sostre, a letter from Ericka Huggins, and a large centerfold poster / article..... More
[Lancaster, PA: Lancaster Press, Inc.], 1968. Offprint. First separate printing of an address King delivered to the meeting of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (American Psychological Association) in Washington, DC in September, 1967. The address, first printed in the American Psychologist (Vol.23, No.3 - March, 1968)..... More
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1968. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on the establishment media, Black students seizing a Chicago high school, revolution in Paris, the arrest of Jerry Rubin and freeing of Eldridge Cleaver, with a substantial interview of Huey P...... More
Birmingham, AL: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1965. First Edition. Detailed summary of the SCLC's 9th annual convention, held in Birmingham, Alabama from August 9-13, 1965. Contents include introductory greetings by SCLS Secretary Rev. Fred Shuttleworth, text of the annual report by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a detailed list of..... More
New York: M.U.S.T., [1968]. First Edition. Attractive memorial booklet published by the New York-based Metropolitan Urban Service Training (M.U.S.T.) in the wake of King's assassination. Contains portraits of MLK and Coretta Scott King, a poem by Paul Engle, and tributes by Keith E. Baird, Ella Baker, Robert S. Browne, James..... More
New York: New York Committee to Free Angela Davis, [n.d. but ca.1971]. Poster produced by the NY Committee to Free Angela Davis, reproducing a well-known and often-used black & white image of Davis in a dashiki. Not separatey listed in OCLC, though we note variations of the poster in the..... More
1974. First Edition. Black and white photograph(10.5 x 12.5cm) [approx 4 x 6 inch] Date printed at lower right verso: Dec. 24, 1974. Inscription reads: "Keep on Pushing Allan - Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Nat'l President Operation PUSH." More
[Montgomery, AL: S.i.], 1987. Poster promoting the July 4th National March for Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, which drew attention to the plight of Johnny "Imani" Harris of Birmingham. On August 19, 1970, Harris was arrested on his way to work, forced into a line-up, and coerced into a confession for..... More
New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1958. First Edition. Annual report detailing the major achievements of the organization, as well as milestones within the Civil Rights movement, in 1957. Contents touch on the enactment of the Civil Rights Act, violence at Little Rock, challenging the churches..... More
[Rock Island, IL: S.i., 1965]. Well-preserved poster for an NAACP demonstration in response to the events of "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The "peaceful demonstration," sponsored by the NAACP and students of Augustana College, was one of several demonstrations and "sympathy marches" held nationwide, on March..... More
[Miami, FL]: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1966. First Edition. Succinct statement issued by the Board of the SCLC, following its annual meeting on April 13, 1966, in Miami, Florida. Addressing their position on the Vietnam War, the resolution notes: "SCLC as an organization committed to nonviolence must condemn this war..... More
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Philadelphia: Samuel H. Reading, 1937. First Edition. Rare broadside from the print shop of Samuel H. Reading, an African-American printer and publicist who briefly employed the Philadelphia artist Dox Thrash as a graphic designer (we entertained the tantalizing possibility that the current lynching graphic may have been Thrash's work, but..... More
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[Chicago]: Second Ward Times, [1938]. First Edition. Rare and fragile campaign flyer for Roscoe Conkling Simmons's failed 1938 run for U.S. Congress, to represent Illinois' 1st District (including most of South-side Chicago). Published and illustrated by Henry Brown, who had been the chief editorial cartoonist for Chicago's leading African-American newspaper..... More
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[Liverpool: 1843]. English poet and hymnist Emily Taylor (1795-1872), was the author of more than twenty books, including the book-length anti-slavery poem The Vision of Las Casas (1825). Though best-known as an author of historical works for children, she was also a prolific hymnist, contributing more than a dozen works..... More
Pittsburgh: Know, Inc., [1970]. Full text of the lecture Chisholm delivered at the Conference on Women's Employment in Chicago, Illinois, on January 24, 1970, an event sponsored by the Chicago chapter of NOW. Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005), a New York City Democratic Congresswoman, was the first major-party Black candidate to run..... More
Los Angeles: Peace and Freedom Party, [1968]. Variant registration drive poster produced by the Peace and Freedom Party, prominently featuring a photographic portrait of a young white female next to the slogan "You don't have to belong to a minority group to register Peace and Freedom." Not found in OCLC..... More
N.p. S.i., 1955. Handsome, informal color portrait of Rev. Major Jealous Divine (better known as Father Divine to his followers), dressed in a suit and seated in an armchair holding a letter. The photograph is accompanied by a typed letter from Divine to one "Miss Gentle Dove," thanking her for..... More
