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, 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: 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: 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

[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

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

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

[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

[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

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

[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

N.p. [Washington, D.C.: by the Author, 1917], 1917. Brief but quite sophisticated discussion of the issue of race eugenics and whether the "professional class" of Negroes would be self-sustaining through its own reproductivity;" Miller's preliminary conclusion is that "the upper class is headed towards extinction, unless reinforced from the fruitful..... More