Los Angeles: University of California, 1958. Reprint. Octavo (25cm). Staple-bound self-wrappers; 12pp. Scattered and inobtrusive red ink marginalia, else VG. Reprinted from the Northwestern University Law Review, Mar-Apr 1958. More
![Bayard Rustin: Goals and Strategies [Signed]. AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, LITERATURE](/pictures/medium/44214.jpg?v=1562105435)
Brunswick, ME: Tragos Press, 1964. First Edition. Fine-press broadside, printing the text of Rustin's 1964 speech at Bowdoin College, produced at Thomas Cornell's Tragos Press. Following the March on Washington, Bowdoin College invited Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bayard Rustin - one of the chief organizers of the March -..... 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
Chicago: Third World Press, 1974. First Edition. The Mississippi poet's first published collection. First Printing. Octavo (22cm). Staple-bound, illustrated wrappers; 23pp. Fine. More
[New York: American Missionary Association, 1888]. First Edition. Essay later expanded in the author's collection of the same title, published in 1890. Cable, though himself born into a slaveholding family, describes the deteriorating conditions for African-Americans in the South following the end of Reconstruction. BAL 2348. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's..... More
N.p., n.d. [ca 1985]: International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal. Rare, locally-distributed poster, presumably issued during the protests immediately following the 1985 bombing of MOVE's headquarters by the Philadelphia Police Department in 1985. In the moments immediately preceding the siege, Philadelphia's police commissioner Gregore Sambor had famously..... 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
![Poems [Inscribed and Signed]. AFRICAN AMERICANA, J. E. SPINGARN](/pictures/medium/44184.jpg?v=1559164454)
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1924. First Edition. Poetry collection by the co-founder of Harcourt, Brace and Company, in 1919, and an early member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Spingarn, the first Jewish leading member of the NAACP, served as chairman of the board..... 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
New York: New York Committee to Defend the Panther 21, [1970]. First Edition. Informative document produced and circulated by the NY Committee to Defend the Panther 21, supplying background on the defendants' arrest, charges, bail, and indictments, including details about the pre-trial hearing, the use of wire-tapping, and D.A. Hogan..... More
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1968. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on movement activity at San Francisco State, the roots of revolt in France, the Oakland 7 trial, the sentencing of H.Rap Brown, Bobby Seale getting 3 years probation, an early piece..... 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
[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
Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards (hardcover); 272pp. Fine, unread copy, lacking jacket (as issued?). Scarce in cloth. More
n.p. Communist League, 1973. First Edition. Anonymously written Marxist-Leninist analysis of the ongoing economic enslavement of African Americans under capitalism. The Communist League was a predecessor to the Communist Labor Party, which it formed by alliance with the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in the mid-1970s. Quarto (27cm). Staple bound..... 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
Dallas: Good Street Baptist Church, 1970. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Pictorial textured card wrappers; 112pp; illus. Clean, Near Fine copy. Souvenir program distributed upon the erection of the church's new edifice, May 3rd, 1970, under the leadership of the long-serving pastor and civil rights leader Dr. Caesar Clark, who led..... More
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 321pp; includes bibliography. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Slight rubbing to jacket; else textual unmarked copy in very good dustjacket. 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
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1981. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 327pp; 5 inserted leaves of black and white photographs; includes bibliography. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Minor tears to dustjacket along edges; else..... More
![Stop! Don't Shop! Downtown [Original Window Decal]. AFRICAN AMERICANS, CAF-SNCC](/pictures/medium/37943.jpg?v=1554414998)
[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
Atlanta: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1972. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of the official SCLC journal, which began as a newspaper in February 1968, and gradually moved to a smaller magazine format. The publication's title was taken from Martin Luther King Jr's ultimatum of "meeting physical force with soul force." A...... More
Boston: House of Edinboro, 1952. First Edition. Biography of Major Richard Robert Wright, highest-ranking African-American military officer during the Spanish-American War and first President of Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth (now Savannah State University). The author was herself a major figure among African-American feminists, and was the first..... More
Nashville & Boston: Southern Student Organizing Committee & New England Free Press, N.d. [ca 1967]. Reprints an essay by Julius Lester which originally appeared in the November 1966 issue of Sing Out. This copy in pink wrappers, with SSOC co-publication statement - presumably the second printing (preceded by the SSOC..... More
![The Civil Rights Congress Tells the Story...[Signed]. AFRICAN AMERICANS, William PATTERSON, CIVIL...](/pictures/medium/41362.jpg?v=1555174561)
[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
