New York: New Century Publishers, 1952. First Edition. "An appeal to American Negroes to defend the Negro communists indicted under the Smith Act. The author, a Negro communist, states that the author of the Smith Act is one of the most vicious and powerful enemies of the Negro people. The..... 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

[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: New Century Publishers, 1952. First Edition. Slim octavo (19.5cm); original printed wrappers, stapled; 24pp. Light wear and rubbing, some oxidation to staples, with two ink marks to margins; Very Good. "A call for unrestricted Negro suffrage and representation, and for the smashing of Jim Crow in our political..... 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

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's promotional photograph of the author laid in. Octavo (23.5cm); cream cloth, blocked and titled in black and gilt on spine, with the author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on front cover; dustjacket; xii,372pp..... More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Third Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); light and dark grey paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [5],6-496 + [16]pp of photographs. Inscribed on the half-title page to Puerto Rican editor, translator, and literary critic Roberto Marquez: "To Bob, With faith and hope..... More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1976. First Edition. Authoritative analysis of the successes and failures of the Civil Rights movement by Rustin (1912-1987), a leading strategist of the movement, avowed pacifist, and member of the War Resisters League. He begins at the early years of the movement, with the formation..... 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

[Montgomery, AL: S.i.], 1987. Poster promoting the July 4th National March for Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, which drew attention to the plight of Johnny "Imani" Harris of Birmingham. On August 19, 1970, Harris was arrested on his way to work, forced into a line-up, and coerced into a confession for..... More

[New York: S.i.], 1968. First Edition. Bifolium (38cm); pictorial newsprint wrappers; 4pp; illus. Horizontal fold at center, else a fresh, Fine copy. Memorial issue of The Worker, a weekend paper circulated between 1958-1968 after The Daily Worker ceased operations. Released in the wake of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, this..... 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

[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