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
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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
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
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
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
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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, 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
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1967. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on Stokely Carmichael's visit to Cuba (by Julius Lester), Gary Rader's letter from jail, Fidel Castro on Stokely & Black Revolution, and a centerfold dedicated to the Dixie Hills community in..... 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 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
San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1968. First Edition. Well-preserved issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on the verdict in the Huey Newton trial, welfare mothers and students, Tom Hayden in Chicago, the New Left and the Army, and a large Panther centerfold. Tabloid (44.5cm); photo-illustrated newsprint..... 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, 1967. First Edition. An SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper, with contents featuring a lengthy interview with community organizer Fannie Lou Hamer, articles on organizing "liberal" Minneapolis, Native Americans against the war, theater troupes in Chicago, a Vietnam War centerfold, the Tennessee Freedom Labor Union, and putting..... 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]: Press of the Alabama Journal, 1846. First Edition. A high-spot (if such a thing may be said to exist) of antebellum pro-slavery literature. Historian John Ashworth finds in Estes "the fullest expression" of the menial theme in pro-slavery literature: "He [Estes] was prepared to 'state it as a...... 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. 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
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
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
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
