![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: National Baptist Convention, 1954]. First Edition. Jackson's first annual address before the Convention as its sitting President - the first of many, as he would remain in the Presidency for 29 years. Jackson became controversial for his rejection of the American Civil Rights movement, but in this address --..... 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 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
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
New York: Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'Rith, [1968]. Full text of a speech delivered by the civil rights activist and organizer, delivered on May 6, 1968 to the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'Rith. A powerful speech - an appeal to Jewish people "to be a part of the coalition of..... 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 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of California, 1965. First Edition. Well-preserved, early issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on the Natchez Boycott success, Black theatre, coverage of the Delano Grape Strike and their call for a national boycott, the Farm Workers' Poverty Program, the..... More
San Francisco: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of California, 1965. First Edition. Well-preserved, early issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on the Tulare County Rent Strike/March, Tennessee Freedom Labor Union, Fannie Lou Hamer, guidelines for freedom school organizers, reports from the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union, African..... More
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1967. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on the California Center for Community Development (CCCD), the Child Development Group of Mississippi, the Watts arson case, and the Berkeley Student Strike, et al. Centerfold article by Rudolf Augstein ("America's..... 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
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. Horizontal fold at center, light wear, toning, and a...... More
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1968. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on the verdict of Huey Newton's trial (which continues and occupies the centerfold), welfare mothers and students, Tom Hayden in Chicago, Radio Free People, the New Left and the Army, Berkeley..... 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 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of California, 1966. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on Arvin workers and the Di Giorgio Fruit Corporation, agit-prop pop opera, investigating your local CIA, the role of whites in black power, coverage of the Martinsville..... More
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1967. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on taking power in Sunflower County, Elijah Turner's run for congress, an SNCC worker getting 3 years on a chain gang, an 800 black student sit-in, coverage of peasants organizing in..... More
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1968. First Edition. An SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper, with contents featuring an interview with Jerry Rubin, articles on Huey Newton, protests at Columbia University, Bob Dylan, Conspiracy 7, George Wallace, et al. Front wrapper features Frank Cieciorka's iconic illustration of a raised fist. Tabloid (44.5cm);..... More
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1969. First Edition. An SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper, with contents featuring contributions by Bob Avakian, Jim Jacobs, Bob Gabriner, Barbara Baran, Bill Drew, Stephanie Mines, Phil Frazier, and others. Front wrapper features a full-page Frank Cieciorka illustration of John Brown, beneath the quote: "I, John..... More
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1969. First Edition. An SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper, with contents featuring coverage of People's Park, the death of a Chicago Young Lords member by an off-duty policeman, raids against the SDS, the Panthers' Free Breakfast Program, Spring Offensive in New York, mental oppression, wildcat strike..... 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
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
