N.p. S.i., 1966. First Edition. In mid-March, 1966, after a massive rally at Chicago's International Amphitheatre, King, John Lewis, and Harry Belafonte went to Europe on a fundraising tour for the SCLC and SNCC, visiting Lyon, Paris, and Stockholm. The fundraising effort took place amid significant controversy; the U.S. government..... More
Chicago: Third World Press, 1970. Chicago poet's fourth published collection. With an introduction by Gwendolyn Brooks; cover blurbs by Brooks and Sonia Sanchez. Second (1973) printing. Octavo (21cm). Stapled, illustrated wrappers; 32pp. Mild rubbing to covers; Very Good. More
New York: Angela Davis Legal Defense Fund, [1971]. First Edition. Pamphlet produced by the Angela Davis Legal Defense Fund, with an introduction by Ossie Davis, and contributions by Ralph Abernathy, John J. Abt, and Paul E. Miller. Slim octavo (21.5cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 16pp; illus. Some mild wear and handling..... 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: 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
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. First Edition. Superb documentary photobook on the Civil Rights struggle in the South, with images taken chiefly by SNCC staff photographer Danny Lyon, but also Roy De Carava, Robert Frank, David Heath, Kenneth Thompson, Don Charles, and Norris McNamara. Text supplied by African-American playwright..... More
[Richmond, IN: Paul Graphics, Inc.], 1977. First Edition. Collection of sermons by Harvey (1911-1976), an A.M.E. Church pastor and educator who, together with his wife, Claire Collins Harvey (1916-1995), were heavily active in civil rights causes in Mississippi and Louisiana. Octavo (21.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [viii],188,[4]pp; illus. Signed by editor..... More
New York: Vanguard Press, 1929. First Edition. A comprehensive and unflinching portrait of African-American life in the first decades of the Twentieth Century. In his 1929 review of the book for The Book League Monthly, Langston Hughes concluded: "...is it not almost unbelievable...that twelve million people should live in an..... 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
New York: American News Co., 1872. First Edition. Sympathetic view, by a first-hand observer, of African-American society in the South during Reconstruction. With much on the retrograde attitudes of white southerners, including some of the earliest first-hand accounts of the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. HOWES S-907. Octavo (19.5cm);..... More
Tuskegee, AL: The Negro Year Book Publishing Company, 1925. First Edition. Early edition of Work's annual compilation of statistics and facts regarding African-American life and culture (issued from 1912 to 1952). There was a simultaneous issue in wrappers. Cloth Issue. Octavo (22cm); textured cloth boards, titled in gilt on front..... 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
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
[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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[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
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
[Rockville, MD: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1989]. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; unpaginated; photographic illus. throughout. A hint of toning to spine edge, else Near Fine. Additional ephemera from the Dinner laid in, including a flyer advertising a workshop on community drug..... More
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[Los Angeles]: Civil Rights Congress, [1951]. First Edition. Volume produced by the Los Angeles chapter of the Civil Rights Congress, a national organization founded in 1946 dedicated to the defense of racial injustice. Contents include coverage of the CRC's involvement in cases related to police brutality, anti-semitism, and extradition, with..... More
![Broadside / Handbill] Monster Meeting Wednesday, April 1, 1925 ... Metropolitan A.M.E. Church...](/pictures/medium/14687.jpg?v=1529353149)
[Washington, D.C.]: American Printing Co., 1925. First Edition. Small promotional handbill for a rally and concert to benefit the Hampton-Tuskegee "Eight Million Dollar Drive" campaign. Featured speakers were R.R. Moton, Anson Phelps Stokes, and Kelly Miller; music provided by the Hampton and Tuskegee Quartettes. With halftone portrait of R.R. Moton..... 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
