Boston: Beacon Press, 1963. First Edition. Transcripts of interviews by Clark, an African American psychologist, originally produced for Public Television Station WGBH, Boston, in 1963. With an added Afterword by Henry Morgenthau III. BLOCKSON 3571. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); blue paper and cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on..... More
New York & Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); white cloth, with titles stamped in blue on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [iv],v-xii,196pp. Spine ends gently nudged, hint of sunning to upper board edges, with a brief gift inscription to half-title page; Near Fine. Dustjacket..... 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
![Stop! Don't Shop! Downtown [Original Window Decal]. AFRICAN AMERICANA, CAF-SNCC](/pictures/medium/37943.jpg?v=1642553044)
[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 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
[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
![My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr. [Review Copy]. AFRICAN AMERICANA, Coretta Scott KING, CIVIL...](/pictures/medium/57083.jpg?v=1646098317)
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
N.p. [San Francisco?]: S.i., 1956. First Edition. Complete text of King's 1956 address to the NAACP, delivered at a critical juncture in the midst of the ongoing Montgomery Bus Boycott, just a few weeks after the Federal Court ruling in Browder v. Gayle which declared Alabama's racial segregation laws for..... More
![Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement [Inscribed]. AFRICAN AMERICANA, John LEWIS,...](/pictures/medium/58232.jpg?v=1654727887)
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
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: 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
New York: The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc., 1965. First Editions. Complete year of this long-running African American magazine and official publishing organ of the NAACP, conceived by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1910, which under his editorial hand quickly became "the most influential monthly magazine in black America...Throughout the years, the..... 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: New Century Publishers, 1960. First Edition. Slim octavo (18.75cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 24pp. Trivial wear, else a Fine copy. Pamphlet containing the abridged text of a report delivered by Davis (as National Secretary of the Communist Party) at the meeting of the National Committee in Chicago, IL, March..... 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: Angela Davis Legal Defense Fund, [1971]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 16pp; illus. Some trivial wear, else Near Fine. 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...... 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
New York: New Century Publishers, 1950. First Edition. 16mo (12.75cm.); original printed wrappers, stapled; 15pp. Trivial wear to extremities, some dust-soil to rear wrapper, else Near Fine. "Text of an address delivered at a banquet sponsored by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, November 10, 1949. Argues that the Soviet..... 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
![The Civil Rights Congress Tells the Story...[Signed]. AFRICAN AMERICANS, William PATTERSON, CIVIL...](/pictures/medium/41362.jpg?v=1641872390)
[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
