Autograph in black ink on front cover of the "South Carolina Picture Book" (Columbia: South Carolina Film Office, ca 2004). Reads: "Randy / Peace / Jesse Jackson," dated 3/30/04. More
New York: Jewish Labor Committee / Anti-Defamation League, N.d. [ca 1948]. Edition not stated. Dated from context. 12mo, tri-fold brochure. 4pp text with cartoon illustrations. Trivial darkening to margins; Near Fine. Pressure stamp to front cover of Michigan Labor Committee to Combat Intolerance, Detroit. Post-war brochure promoting the FEPC, a...... More
San Marino, CA: The John Birch Society, 1976. Reprints an anti-busing article from the John Birch Society newspaper. McManus blames the NAACP and Brown v. Board of Education for initiating forced school busing beginning in the 1950s, and characterizes integration as a "nightmare that won't go away." Probably intended for..... More
London: The Commonwealth Secretariat, 1989. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 163pp; bibliography. Fine in lightly faded dustwrapper. Apparently unread. More
Washington DC: Repression Information Project, 1978. First Edition. Single issue in original wrappers. Staple-bound thick-paper wrappers; 56pp; illus. Bit of discoloration to covers and contents; text printed on newsprint, toned but not fragile. Organ of the Repression Information Project and the Guild Investigative Group, formed in the 1970s to monitor..... More
[Berkeley]: Campaign for Martin Luther King for President / Berkeley Free Press Offset Printing, [1967]. Campaign handbill conceived by Philip D. Roos (1936-2010), a sociologist, Vietnam veteran, and founder of the Berkeley Free Press. Roos was extremely active in campus politics while attending UC Berkeley, where he co-founded TASC (Toward..... More
Baltimore: Maryland Commission on Interracial Problems and Relations, 1955. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 32pp. Mild dusting to covers, else Near Fine. Summary report of a study undertaken in the first four months of 1955 to "determine why the Baltimore School Commissioners decided to desegregate when they..... More
Detroit: Mohawk Publishing Co., [1967]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 79pp.; photographic illus. Some foxing and shallow chips and tears to jacket extremities. Fine in About Very Good jacket. More
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1995. First Edition Thus. The Broadside Poets Theatre, established by Dudley Randall in 1980, is a weekly reading/performance series featuring the work of young Black writers. Broadside, 11" x 8.5". Printed in black on purple card stock. Broadside Poets Theater, No. 22. Fine, unworn copy. More
[Johannesburg]: Central News Agency, (1945). First Edition. Octavo. Illustrated wrappers; 71pp. Very Good. Cover artwork by J.M Leyden. Conservative plan for economic reform, with little substantive reference to apartheid. More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office / Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, [1973]. First Edition. Quarto. Printed card wrappers; 209pp. Includes bibliography. Fine, unmarked and apparently unread copy. More
New York: Aperture, 1981. First Edition. Collection of photographs and commentary from the former SNCC staff photographer, covering the Civil Rights Movement, motorcycle gangs, prison and street life, and his travels through Latin America. Wrappered Issue. Oblong quarto (22.5cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers; 142pp; illus. Modest wear and dust-soil to wrappers;..... More
London: Paul Breman, 1971. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 24pp. Slight external dusting, else fine. Volume 15 in Breman's "Heritage Series" of chapbooks by African-American poets. Major's third published collection. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 312pp. Fine, unread copy. A "dispassionate" examination of the women's movement from a male perspective, by the San Francisco journalist and prolific author on social-movement themes. More
[Berkeley: Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute], 1983. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's grey pictorial staplebound card wrappers printed in reddish-brown; unpaginated; illus. Light cockling from exposure to damp, faint crease and brief ink note to upper cover, else Very Good. Text opens with Institute President Ann Fagan Ginger's statement "From SNCC..... More
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press Book / Little, Brown and Company, [1953]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in green price-clipped dust jacket lettered in black and white, yellow topstain; x,[2],385pp.; photographic frontispiece. Jacket extremities quite heavily chipped and worn, light sunning to upper panel fore-edge, Near Fine in Good or..... More
Washington DC: by the Author, 1917. A strongly-worded attack on the Wilson administration's civil rights record. Miller writes in the wake of the Memphis and East St. Louis race riots of 1917 to complain of the untenable social status of African-Americans and their lack of representation in Wilson's government: "The..... More
N.p. by the Author, 1921. Offprint. Scarce offprint, surveying the current state and future of educational opportunities for Blacks. "...While the mass of the race remains in the South, the educational center of gravity will be shifting towrad the North. Ambitious youth will flock to the centers of the best..... More
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N.p. American Journal of Sociology, 1924. Offprint. Octavo; self-wraps, pp.499-505. Margins of outer leaves foxed else Very Good. Miller's review occupies the first 5 pages; also included in this offprint are two reviews by Robert E. Park. More
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Washington DC: National Magazine, 1905. Offprint. Offprint from the February, 1905 issue of National Magazine. Octavo. Staple-bound self-wrappers; [6]pp. Binding holes in left margin. Somewhat worn copy, with general soil to outer leaves; partial split at bound edge; still Good or better. Scarce offprint; the article attacks Thomas Dixon's anti-miscegenation..... More
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London: Minority Rights Group, n.d. [ca. 1981]. First Edition. Quarto (29.5cm.) bifolium, with order blank laid in. Light toning to extremities, else Near Fine. Mission statement of the Group, founded in 1969 by former Observer editor David Astor. More
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1974. First Edition. First book by the native Berkeley poet. "The poems that make-up my first volume...are the articulation of my vision, the illumination of my experiences they are that part of my survival kit I'm willing to reveal and share. I try to write poems that..... More
Lincoln, Nebraska: Chicago-Southern Network Study Committee on Undergraduate Education and the Education of Teachers, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 102pp. Brief (1-pp) bibliography. Contributions by Adelbert Jones, Isaiah Madison, Spurgeon McWilliams, others. More
Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1959. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed card wrappers; 17pp. Mild external dusting, else a Near Fine, apparently unread copy. More
Moscow: Novostii Press Agency Publishing House, 1974. First Edition. Narrative of a 1971 tour of the Soviet Union by an interracial delegation of American intellectuals and business leaders. The author, a 1929 graduate of Dickinson College (where he was the only African-American student at the time), was a long-time editor..... More
