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 about Berkeley Tribe - Final Issue (May 1972
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 about Berkeley Tribe - Vol.3, No.26 (January 15-22, 1971
New York: The American Jewish Committee, 1969. Bibliography of books, pamphlets, magazine articles, and training materials related to police interaction and race. Third Printing. Quarto (28cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 16pp. Some trivial wear to extremities, else Fine. More about The Police and Race Relations: A Selected Bibliography
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 about Poster: You don't have to belong to a minority group to register PEACE AND FREEDOM
New York: [Allen Van Newkirk], 1968. Striking single issue of Allen Van Newkirk's ephemeral free newspaper, distributed irregularly as "a cultural supplement of Liberation News Service." Van Newkirk was a seminal figure in the Detroit radical scene of the Sixties, where he was affiliated with such groups as the Detroit... More about Guerrilla: Free Newspaper of the Streets - Vol.2, No.1
Los Angeles: Liberation Union, [ca.1970]. Flyer produced by the Los Angeles-based Liberation Union, drawing attention to the plight of Chairman Bobby Seale, who was on trial in 1970 for charges of conspiracy and inciting riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Prominently displayed are illustrations of a bound and gagged... More about Flyer: And on the U.S.A. front...Bobby Seale is being systematically fitted to the electric chair
Oakland: Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, 1968. First Edition. Early printed statement by the Black Panther Party, published seven months after their Ten Point Platform appeared in the second issue of The Black Panther. Presented at the Alameda County Peace & Freedom Party Meeting in Berkeley (Jan.31, 1968), Position is... More about Position of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense on the Seventh Congressional District...
Emeryville, CA: Black Panther Party for Self Defence, [1968]. Attractive copy of one of the most iconic posters produced by the Black Panther Party, depicting a striking portrait of Defense Minister Huey P. Newton. Newton was among the most highly-publicized personalities by the Panthers, with photographs and artistic renderings of... More about Poster: "The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease...
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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 about Stop! Don't Shop! Downtown [Original Window Decal
Plainfield, NJ: Plainfield Joint Defense Committee, [1969]. Appeal pamphlet by the Plainfield Joint Defense Committee written on behalf of the three remaining members of the Plainfield 12 - Bobby Lee Williams, Gail Madden, and George Merritt, Jr. During the summer of 1967, Williams was shot by John V. Gleason, a.... More about Speak Out! For the Release of Plainfield's Black Hostages: Bobby Lee Williams, Gail Madden,...
Los Angeles: Peace and Freedom Party, [1968]. Registration drive poster produced by the Peace and Freedom Party, prominently featuring a photographic portrait of a light-skinned, wealthy African American woman wearing a mink coat and diamonds. Presumably issued to raise awareness that voters need not belong to a particular soci-economic status... More about Poster: You don't have to be Underprivileged to register PEACE AND FREEDOM
New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1963. Contents reprinted from The International Socialist Review, October, 1963. "Text of resolution "Freedom Now: The New Stage in the Struggle for Negro Emancipation and the Tasks of the SWP," adopted by the 1963 Convention of the Socialist Party" (from copyright page). Final pages delineate the... More about Freedom Now: New Stage in the Struggle for Negro Emancipation
N.p. 1969. First Edition. Original poster, offset lithographed in black on white stock, measuring 57.5x45 cm. (22.75 x 17.75"). Fine. Poster produced after comedian and political activist Dick Gregory's failed 1968 run for presidency as a write-in candidate for the Freedom and Peace Party (splintered from the Peace and Freedom... More about NEEDED (Public Citizen #1 - President of the United States in Exile - Inaugurated 3-4-69
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1968. First Edition. Edited collection of essays on the subject of African-American representation in news media. Contributors include Ralph McGill, Armistead Pride, Charles Evers, Ray Williams, Tommy Jacquette, and others. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 86pp. Mild external rubbing; text clean, tight and unmarked; VG+ to NF. More about The Black American and the Press
London: Agitprop, N.d. (ca 1968). Corner-stapled mimeographed sheets, 13" x 8"; 7,(1)pp; illus. Mild edgewear; Very Good. How-to guide produced by members of the London Poster Workshop, offering do-it-yourself printing techniques for creating movement propaganda. Final page a diagram detailing screen-printing and drying methods. Cover illustrated with reproductions of Poster... More about How To Print Silkscreen Posters
London: Agitprop Information, [n.d. but ca.1960's]. First Edition. How-to manual for beginners on the formation of guerilla and street theatre groups, including guidance on techniques, finding audiences, making plays, improvisation, and political affiliations. The Agitprop Information Service, founded in the late 1960's in London, was operated as "a comprehensive information..... More about How To: Use Street Theatre
New York: Verso Books, 2005. Reprint. Octavo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; 403pp. Clean, tight and unmarked copy, about Fine. Reprint, with new Preface, of Ali's autobiography originally published London, 1987. More about Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties
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Dorchester, MA: United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, N.d. (ca 1969). Two pieces of related ephemera promoting the first successful strike by Latino farm workers in American history, organized by the United Farm Workers under the leadership of Cesar Chavez. The strike began in 1965 and was soon backed up with... More about Are Fruitsellers Taking A Chance With Your Health [with] Don't Shop In Stores That Sell Table...
N.p. S.i., 1967. Early edition of this epic poem by the Denver poet, activist, and former professional boxer. Originally self-published in mimeographed format in 1967, Gonazles's epic poem was a major inspiration to the Chicano movement, providing them with both a sense of nationalism and identity. The text is complimented... More about I Am Joaquin
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, [1965]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original pictorial staplebound wrappers; 112pp. Spine ends a bit chipped, some discoloration to rear wrapper, else Very Good and sound. More about Tension, Change and Liberty: 45th Annual Report
New York: Kanrom, 1964. First Edition. Collection of cartoons unflatteringly adorned with the heads of unnamed Hollywood celebrities. Not in OCLC as of January, 2015. The record for another collection published by Kanrom, Doctor Ratfink, M.D., lists a Richard Miller and Viola Ilma as the co-authors. Slim quarto (27cm.); original... More about Ratfink's Hollywood
New York: New York Civil Liberties Union, 1969. First Edition. Small quarto (28cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 159pp. Moderate cover wear, including small scuff to front cover; text clean, tight and unmarked - a Very Good copy. Highly critical evaluation of police action during the Columbia student protests of 1968. There... More about Police on Campus: the Mass Police Action at Columbia University, Spring, 1968
Pittsburgh: Know, 1969. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 10pp. Fine. Paper presented at the Symposium on Behavioral Sciences, American Psychological Association, September 3, 1969. More about Cross-Cultural Perspectives on How to Minimize the Adverse Effects of Sex Differentiation
New York: Pyramid Books, [1968]. First Thus. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers, all edges stained yellow; 302pp. Light shelf wear, else Near Fine. This edition published the same year as the first. "A Southern black boy's struggle to discover his manhood in a riot-torn northern ghetto -- explosive... Timely!"... More about The Black Wine
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N.p. [NY: Lines Press, ca 1965]. First, Limited Edition. Copy 33 of fifty hand-numbered copies, signed in ink by both poets. Broadside, 33cm x 20.5cm. Printed in red on cream laid-paper stock. Faint crease at upper left corner; light soil to extremities; Very Good Plus. FISCHER [Ted Berrigan: an Annotated... More about Noh [Issued as Linesheet no. 1
