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 about Unions and Civil Liberties: Claims vs. Performance (Institute of Industrial Relations Reprint no. 74
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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 about Bayard Rustin: Goals and Strategies [Signed
Philadelphia: Merrihew and Gunn, 1838. First Edition. An appeal to the people of Pennsylvania, attempting to persuade them "to vote against the ratification of a new constitution for Pennsylvania in 1838 because the word "white" had been inserted prior to "freemen" as a qualification for voting" (Reader, David. The Encyclopedia... More about Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens, Threatened with Disfranchisement, to the People of Pennsylvania
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 about Let's Go Some Where. Introduction by Gwendolyn Brooks
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 about Voo Doo / Love Magic
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Orwell, OH: by the Author, 1896. Account of the activities of the Underground Railroad in Ohio, told through semi-fictionalized narratives of escaped slaves. The author, a resident of northeastern Ohio, was a Civil War veteran and a Methodist clergyman. Most of the stories collected in the present volume were originally... More about From Dixie to Canada. Romances and Realities of the Underground Railroad. Vol. 1 [all published
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 about Attention America This Is Move
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 about Black America
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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, would serve as chairman of the... More about Poems [Inscribed and Signed
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 about The Black Man of the South, and the Rebels; or, The Characteristics of the Former, and the Recent...
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1968. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on the arrest of H. Rap Brown and the charges laid on him in Louisiana and Virginia, a statement by Bobby Seale, portions of an interview with Huey Newton, coverage of... More about The Movement - Vol.4, No.3 (April, 1968
Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards (hardcover); 272pp. Fine, unread copy, lacking jacket (as issued?). Scarce in cloth. More about Race For Justice: Mumia Abu-Jamal's Fight Against the Death Penalty
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 about Negro National Colonial Question
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 about Black Politics in Philadelphia
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 about Entrance Souvenir Journal 1884-1970 - Good Street Baptist Church, 3110 Bonnie View Road - Dallas....
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 321pp; includes bibliography. An ex-library reading copy, with typical indications including shelf label, card pocket, and accession stamps. Moderate edgewear and rubbing to jacket; small nicks to upper edges; else textual unmarked copy in good dustjacket. More about Confrontation: Black and White
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 about Confrontation: Black and White
New York: Pageant Press, Inc., 1966. First Edition. The author argues against intergration, forseeing "reactions so violent that daily living will be shadowed by terrorist tactics, anarchy, and perhaps even a second Civil War." Chachas believes the solution is to give African Americans their own states in which they could... More about Americans Save America: Solution to America's Racial Dilemma: Separate and Equal Negro States
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 183pp. 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 dustjacket with adhesive residue to front right corner; appears unread; tight copy in very... More about A Black Physician's Story: Bringing Hope in Mississippi
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1978. Reprint. Octavo. Cloth boards; 249pp; includes bibliography. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Else a sharp, unmarked copy, lightly soiled on covers. More about James Shepherd Pike: Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882
Durham: Duke University Press, 1977. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 221pp; includes bibliography. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy in a very good dustwrapper. More about The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership: Gordon Blaine Hancock 1884-1970
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 140pp. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Price-clipped; aged toned jacket; clean, crisp copy with unmarked text. More about Children of Longing
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth boards; dustjacket; 205pp. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Minor tear to upper spine edge; else clean, crisp copy in very good dustjacket. More about With All Deliberate Speed: Civil Rights Theory and Reality
[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 about 14th Annual Freedom Fund Dinner Saluting Black Youth, Our Key to the Future
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 about The American Negro Academy: Voice of the Talented Tenth
