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: Angela Davis Legal Defense Fund, [1971]. First Edition. Pamphlet produced by the Angela Davis Legal Defense Fund, with an introduction by Ossie Davis, and contributions by Ralph Abernathy, John J. Abt, and Paul E. Miller. Slim octavo (21.5cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 16pp; illus. Some mild wear and handling..... More
New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1967. A widely-reprinted pamphlet, first published a month after Malcolm X's assassination, containing Breitman's speech delivered to the Friday Night Socialist Forum at Eugene V. Debs Hall in Detroit on March 5, 1965. Fourth Printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 24pp. Trivial wear to extremities..... More
New York: American Youth for Democracy, [1946]. First Edition. "Recruiting pamphlet by the executive secretary of the Southern Negro Youth Congress, asserting that no young American can be truly free until white supremacy has been destroyed and the oppression of 13,000,000 Negroes ended. (American Youth for Democracy was the post-World..... 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: Freedomways Associates, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Special issue on Mississippi. Contents include contributions by Fanny Lou Hamer ("Life in Mississippi: An Interview with Fannie Lou Hamer"), George W. Crockett, Jr., Tom Dent, Mike Kellin, Joanne Grant, Staughton Lynd, Eric Morton, and Jim Williams, with an investigation of the..... More
[Richmond, IN: Paul Graphics, Inc.], 1977. First Edition. Collection of sermons by Harvey (1911-1976), an A.M.E. Church pastor and educator who, together with his wife, Claire Collins Harvey (1916-1995), were heavily active in civil rights causes in Mississippi and Louisiana. Octavo (21.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [viii],188,[4]pp; illus. Signed by editor..... More
New York: Freedomways Associates, Inc., 1968. First Edition. Special issue commemorating the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with a photographic portrait of the civil rights leader on the front cover, beneath the quote "I have climbed to the top of the mountain." Contents include a moving editorial (Farewell..... 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: Wendell Malliet and Company, 1942. First Edition. Attractive copy of Powell's semi-autobiographical novel, drawing heavily on his youthful experiences as a petty criminal, drunkard and womanizer, and pointing out "the evils and hypocrisy in organized religion, including his own denomination" (from rear flap). Powell (1865-1953) was a member..... 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
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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
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
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[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
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 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
