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
Atlanta: S.i., [1961]. Jailhouse letter by Leroy Washington, freedom rider, a member of the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights and a student at Brown Morris, a historically black college in Atlanta. Washington, together with Leon Green and 17 others, was arrested on February 7, 1961, for participating in a...... 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
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
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1973. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 228pp. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Else clean, bright copy in very good dustwrapper. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 556pp. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Else a clean, sharp, tight copy in crisp, Fine dustwrapper. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 435pp; includes bibliography. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Else a clean, sharp, tight copy in clean, VG dustwrapper. More
[Washington, D.C.]: S.i., 1924. First Edition. Summary of details regarding the salary scale for the academic faculty of Howard University, presented to their Board of Trustees. Includes extracts and correspondence from faculty to members of the board, including the full text of Dean Kelly Miller's letter to Dr. Michael O...... More
Buffalo: Afro-American Historical Association of the Niagara Frontier, Inc., 2005. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm); printed card wrappers; 96pp. Light wear to extremities, else Near Fine. With contributions by James H. Rigali, John C. Walter, Michael Boston, Ralph Crowder, A.J. Williams-Myers, Melvin Douglass, and Charles Banner Haley. More
St. Louis: W.C. Maxwell, N.d. (ca 1910-1915). Attractive early 20th-century portrait of a young African-American woman, seated and formally dressed. Maxwell was an African-American photographer who catered to a primarily African-American clientele. In her memoir At the Elbows of My Elders, author Gail Milissa Grant mentions Maxwell as one of..... More
N.p. [Washington, D.C.: by the Author, 1917], 1917. Brief but quite sophisticated discussion of the issue of race eugenics and whether the "professional class" of Negroes would be self-sustaining through its own reproductivity;" Miller's preliminary conclusion is that "the upper class is headed towards extinction, unless reinforced from the fruitful..... More
N.p. [Washington, D.C.: by the Author], 1913. Offprint. Scarce offprint, detailing the imnportance of a moral curriculum in higher education, and outlining some possible approaches to its achievement. "Moral pedagogy...can not be stated, at present, in terms of as definite program as can the development of the other parallel faculties..... More
New-York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., 1835. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's green blind-embossed cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, unadorned spine; xii,120,[7](ads)pp. Spine ends chipped, minor cracks along upper joint cloth; a few leaves slightly creased, else textblock sound. Very Good. Inscribed "Rev T. Mason / with the respects of..... More
New York: Minton, Balch & Company, [1934]. First Edition. Sensationalist history of Haiti and voodoo, published during the American occupation in part as a sequel to the author's Black Baghdad (1933), advertised on the rear panel of the present dust jacket as "The Arabian Nights Adventures of a Marine Captain..... More
Cambridge, MA: Africa Research Group, 1971. An expose of the repression experienced in Ethiopia, by the Ethiopian Students Union in North America. "Ethiopia is often portrayed as a country with a glorious tradition of rich and enduring civilization...But this image leaves out too much. Beneath the picturesque medievalism of kings..... More
Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1953. First Edition. Covers criticisms of the then-current system for native education in South Africa, the aims of Bantu education, proposed schemes for the re-organization of Bantu education, and schemes of educational development for the period 1952-1962. Part of the Donaldson Blueprint Series..... More
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987. First Edition. Scholarly volume illuminating "the vigorously creative traditions of Yoruba art in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and shows how the city's secret societies have made these traditions an integral part of life in urban West Africa" (from front flap). First Printing. Octavo..... More
London: Africa Bureau, 1966. First Edition. "The overwhelmingly important question in the Rhodesian crisis is now Rhodesia's vulnerability to economic sanctions. It is difficult to be exact in economic terms; we can only make rough estimates. It is even more difficult to say what the political effect of the economic..... More
Boston: Boston University, [1977]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue pictorial card wrappers printed in black and brown; [4],90pp. Some light wear and toning to wrapper extremities, title page slightly soiled, else Very Good and sound. Collected papers presented at a symposium held at Boston University, April 12, 1975. More
Windsor: by the Author, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers; 174pp. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Author's inscription to front endpaper has also been "X'd" with black ink. Else a tight, VG copy with unmarked..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1969]. Octavo (21.5cm.); original leatherette in grey price-clipped dust jacket lettered in black and white; xxii,471pp.; 32 leaves of photographic illustrations, almost all printed on rectos and versos. Small soil spot to upper jacket panel, light rubbing to extremities, spine a hint toned, else Very Good..... More
Old Westbury, NY: Clearinghouse on Women's Studies--an Education project of the Feminist Press, SUNY/College at Old Westbury, [1973]. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 20pp.; text in double columns. About Fine. List of resources including works on sexism in education and a directory of "Feminist Booksellers" in the country. More
[Kaduna, Nigeria]: Ahmadu Bello University, 1969. First Edition. Small quarto (24cm.); publisher's green pictorial staplebound card wrappers; [4],56pp.; photographic illus. Wrappers a bit worn at extremities from handling, faint dampstain inside rear cover only just affecting facing leaf, else Very Good and sound. Only a couple of issues were ever..... More
London: Anti-Apartheid Movement, [1963]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original red pictorial staplebound wrappers; 31pp. Fine. Small leaflet laid in requesting "Technical and scientific books and magazines for Cuba." More
