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: 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., 1974. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [289]-384pp; illus. Light wear and dustiness to wrappers; Near Fine. Contents include a short story by Alice Walker ("The First Day: A Fable After Brown), and contributions by Tony Monteiro, John Conyers, Donald Bogle, Brumsic Brandon, Jr...... 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
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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
[Buffalo: Socialist Workers Party, 1956]. Broadside issued by the Socialist Workers Party toward the halfway point of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, announcing a talk by Farrell Dobbs (1907-1983), national secretary of the SWP, who had recently returned from Montgomery where he covered the boycott for The Militant. Later in life..... 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, 1968. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on the Texas Southern Five, the Levi Strikers' Co-op, middle-class organizing, and the 1968 election. Tabloid (44cm); illustrated newsprint wrappers; 16pp; illus. Light wear and toning to extremities, faint horizontal fold..... 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, 1969. First Edition. This issue of the SNCC and SDS-affiliated paper contains articles on the United Farm Workers, SDS calling for a National Action in Chicago (on Oct.8-11), the frame-up of Martin Sostre, a letter from Ericka Huggins, and a large centerfold poster / article..... More
[Lancaster, PA: Lancaster Press, Inc.], 1968. Offprint. First separate printing of an address King delivered to the meeting of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (American Psychological Association) in Washington, DC in September, 1967. The address, first printed in the American Psychologist (Vol.23, No.3 - March, 1968)..... More
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1968. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on the establishment media, Black students seizing a Chicago high school, revolution in Paris, the arrest of Jerry Rubin and freeing of Eldridge Cleaver, with a substantial interview of Huey P...... 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
[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: 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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Philadelphia: Samuel H. Reading, 1937. First Edition. Rare broadside from the print shop of Samuel H. Reading, an African-American printer and publicist who briefly employed the Philadelphia artist Dox Thrash as a graphic designer (we entertained the tantalizing possibility that the current lynching graphic may have been Thrash's work, but..... 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
