Berkeley: Red Mountain Tribe, 1972. The final issue of this radical left newspaper from Berkeley, published by a contingent who left the Berkeley Barb in 1969. According to the collective, the paper was a "victim of overwork, bourgeois individualism movemment slump, stale format, transient work force, no pay, declining circulation..... More
Berkeley: Red Mountain Tribe, 1971. A radical left newspaper from Berkeley, published by a contingent who left the Berkeley Barb, and containing a mix of politics, sex, and drug-related content. This issue contains a center spread calling for support of The White Panther Defense Fund, as well as a list..... More
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1969. First Edition. Single poem by the Chicago poet and member of the Nommo circle, issued as No.31 by Dudley Randall's Broadside Press, which issued nearly 100 poems (roughly one per month) in its Broadside Series. Broadside, with text printed in blue on white cardstock, measuring 6.75"..... More
New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1967. A widely-reprinted pamphlet, first published a month after Malcolm X's assassination, containing Breitman's speech delivered to the Friday Night Socialist Forum at Eugene V. Debs Hall in Detroit on March 5, 1965. Fourth Printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 24pp. Trivial wear to extremities..... More
New York: Freedomways Associates, Inc., 1968. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Loyle Hairston, Cheddi Jagan, C.E. Wilson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and others, with cover art by Charles White. Octavo (23cm); pictorial card wrappers; [4],5-96pp; illus. Gentle sunning to spine, light shelfwear, with several lower page corners creased; Very Good+..... More
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New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1966. First Edition. The African American author and sculptor's second and best-known book, a tragic coming-of-age novel that served as the basis for Joseph Manduke's 1975 film Cornbread, Earl and Me, starring NBA star Jamaal Wilkes and Laurence Fishburne in his film debut..... More
Washington DC: Federal Bureau of Investigation, December 13, 1968. First Edition. Scarce, large-format issue of FBI Wanted Flyer No.447, issued on December 13, 1968, and signed in facsimile by J. Edgar Hoover, three days after a Federal warrant was issued in San Francisco, "charging Cleaver with unlawful interstate flight to..... More
New York: American R.D.M. Corporation, 1966. First Edition. Brief, early biography of the Nobel Prize-winning pastor and civil rights leader, published during his lifetime, two years prior to his assassination. Slim octavo (21cm); pictorial card wrappers, stapled; [ii],[6],7-73pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, printed price at upper right corner of..... More
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1967. First Edition. An early work by the Cleveland poet and sculptor, issued as Broadside No.9 by Dudley Randall's Broadside Press, which issued nearly 100 poems (roughly one per month) in its Broadside Series. Broadside, with text printed in purple on pale gray stock, measuring 5.75" x...... More
Chicago: Jamaa Scenes Inc., 1971. First Edition. Promotional poster for Jamila-Ra's The Good Book, a volume of black revolutionary poems by the Chicago-born poet and member of the Nommo group. OCLC notes 2 holdings (Yale, U.Delaware). Original illustrated poster, offset printed in two colors on white stock, measuring 35.5cm x...... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First Edition. The author's third novel, a provocative satire set in New York "that lays bare the abiding racism and the legacy of slavery on the psyche of white America" (Penguin Random House). Kelley (1937-2017) was an African-American novelist and short story..... More
New York: Freedomways Associates, Inc., 1968. First Edition. Special issue commemorating the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with a photographic portrait of the civil rights leader on the front cover, beneath the quote "I have climbed to the top of the mountain." Contents include a moving editorial (Farewell..... More
New York: Freedomways Associates, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Contents include contributions by J.H. O'Dell, Julius E. Thompson, Julius K. Nyerere, Keith Baird, Jim Williams, Rosa Marshall, Constance E. Berkeley, and Lily Golden, et al. Octavo (23cm); pictorial card wrappers; pp.[iii],100-192; illus. Light shelfwear and dustiness; Very Good+. More
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1967. First Edition. An early poem by Randall, issued as No.8 by his Detroit-based Broadside Press, which issued nearly 100 poems (roughly one per month) in its Broadside Series. Broadside, with text printed in black on cream cardstock, measuring 5 13/16" x 11.5". Light wear and dustiness..... More
New York: Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'Rith, [1968]. Full text of a speech delivered by the civil rights activist and organizer, delivered on May 6, 1968 to the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'Rith. A powerful speech - an appeal to Jewish people "to be a part of the coalition of..... More
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[Chicago: Chicago Area Friends of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1963]. Attractive, ephemeral relic of the 1963 "Stop! Don't Shop Downtown" Campaign, coordinated by the Chicago Area Friends of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (CAFSNCC) in conjunction with the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO). The Campaign called for the..... More
San Francisco: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of California, 1965. First Edition. Well-preserved, early issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on the Natchez Boycott success, Black theatre, coverage of the Delano Grape Strike and their call for a national boycott, the Farm Workers' Poverty Program, the..... More
San Francisco: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of California, 1965. First Edition. Well-preserved, early issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on the Tulare County Rent Strike/March, Tennessee Freedom Labor Union, Fannie Lou Hamer, guidelines for freedom school organizers, reports from the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union, African..... More
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1967. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on the California Center for Community Development (CCCD), the Child Development Group of Mississippi, the Watts arson case, and the Berkeley Student Strike, et al. Centerfold article by Rudolf Augstein ("America's..... More
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1968. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on H.Rap Brown's life and activities while under house arrest, the Peace & Freedom Party, Chicago police agents exposed, Arthur Kinoy's speech to the SDS convention, and the battle for San..... 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, 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, 1967. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on taking power in Sunflower County, Elijah Turner's run for congress, an SNCC worker getting 3 years on a chain gang, an 800 black student sit-in, coverage of peasants organizing in..... More
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1968. First Edition. An SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper, with contents featuring an interview with Jerry Rubin, articles on Huey Newton, protests at Columbia University, Bob Dylan, Conspiracy 7, George Wallace, et al. Front wrapper features Frank Cieciorka's iconic illustration of a raised fist. Tabloid (44.5cm);..... More
