San Francisco: Performing Arts Social Society, Inc., 1987. A scarce single issue of this quarterly computer journal associated with the controversial Kerista commune. The journal’s stated purpose was to “foster the use of computers in improving the human condition in the 21st century,” but it also served to market the..... More
Chicago: The Conspiracy, [1969]. Four items in support of the Chicago Eight (later, Chicago 7), which included prominent activists Bobby Seale, Dave Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, John Froines, and Lee Weiner, who were arrested on conspiracy charges following violent protests at the 1968 Democratic National..... More
[Atlanta]: [Research Alliance], ©1936. An anti-immigration card issued during the Great Depression depicting a slovenly dressed immigrant kicking a nativist into the Atlantic with the caption, “Nine million Americans walk the streets, six million foreigners hold good jobs, why?” The verso lists immigration statistics and demands for a law requiring..... More
Nashville, Tenn. The Southern Movement Press, [1969]. An issue of the Southern Student Organizing Committee’s newspaper, which focuses on radical organizing in the South. Content is primarily organized by state and includes original and reprinted articles on SSOC activities in North & South Carolina, Florida, West Virginia, Arkansas, Georgia and..... More
Pasadena, California: Ambassador College Press, ©1968. An alarmist pamphlet on rising crime rates due to moral degeneracy and the behavior of black militants, hippies, and wayward youth. Solutions to this epidemic include a return to Christian values, parental discipline, a reliance on the police, and vigilance. Many color photographs and..... More
[Berkeley, Calif.]: [Rubin for Mayor Committee?], [1967?]. Jerry Rubin’s mayoral campaign outlines its vision of Berkeley and describes Rubin’s approach to the Vietnam war, American foreign policy, China, the draft, rents & housing, poverty & unemployment, police, education, racism, drug laws, abortion, capital punishment, etc. Beautifully designed and printed. Stapled..... More
n.p. n.p., [ca. 1918-1930]. Two unused real photo postcards captioned “Costume of Mohawk Indian Chief” and numbered 63B and 64B. Presumably issued between 1918-1930 based on Azo markings around the stamp box. We were unable to find any info on where these were issued, although they were presumably offered to..... More
Window Rock, Navajo Nation, Arizona: Navajo Times, 1994 / 2002. Nine issues of this long-running newspaper of the Navajo Nation, the first daily newspaper owned and published by a sovereign Indian Nation. Each issue with multiple sections. Includes Vol. 34, No. 49 (Dec. 7, 1994); Vol. 41, Nos. 14-21. Tabloid..... More
Nocatee, FL: Pan-American Indians, 1993-94. Four issues of the Pan-American Indian Association’s (PAIA) newspaper edited by the PAIA’s founder Chief Piercing Eyes. The PAIA was a new religious group based on Native American pantheism, but did not exclude those of non-Native American ancestry. It was primarily based in Florida, although..... More
Philadelphia: The Indian Rights Association, 1983. An issue of the bimonthly newsletter of the Indian Rights Association, which began publication in 1924. This issue focused on the IRA’s four-day conference titled “Indian Self-Rule: Fifty Years Under the Indian Reorganization Act.” Folded, bound sheets (11” x 8 ½”), 12 p., illus..... More
Reno, Nevada: Citizen Alert Native News, 1993. Two issues of this Nevada newspaper focused on Native American issues. The paper was published by Citizens Alert, a multi-issue environmental group interested in the intersection of environmentalism and Native American rights. These two issues include articles on Native American religious freedom, grazing..... More
Cherokee, NC: The Tribal Council of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, 1971. Two issues of this weekly North Carolina Native American newspaper reporting on the life and activities of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Issues include Vol. 4, Nos. 40-41. Tabloid format printed in black on newsprint, 4..... More
San Francisco: Pacific Counseling Service, 1972. The “oppressive history of Standard Oil, its involvement with the Rockefellers, its international empire, its attempt to control public policy, its history of environmental destruction, the profits it makes from the Vietnam war, its control of oil prices here and overseas, its robbery of..... More
Washington, D. C. U. S. Government Printing Office, 1976. An exhaustive Congressional report on the Wounded Knee massacre of 1890, which the U.S. Army argued was not a massacre, but “a restrained compassionate response to an Indian provocation” (p. 1). Includes opening statements, witness testimony, proposed legislation, previous legislation, contemporaneous..... More
Detroit: Black Workers Congress, [1974]. A dense critique of the Rightist tendency of the Revolutionary Union (RU) in its position on party building and the black national question, and the twin line of the Communist League who aligned itself with the RU. The Black Workers Congress originally worked with the..... More
Fletcher, Mo. Confederate Star, 1969. A special issue of the Christian Confederate Star, the newspaper of the Christian States of America (CSA) (originally the Confederate States of America), an obscure far right organization founded during the 1960s by Dan H. Brown, II, who was its first President. Brown maintained that..... More
New York: The Liberated Guardian, 1971. A significant issue of this underground newspaper, which was selected by the Weather Underground for the distribution of its lengthy communique, New Morning - Changing Weather. Composed at the end of 1970, the communique was signed by Bernardine Dohrn on behalf of the Weather..... More
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San Francisco: Freedom House, 1964. Four issues of this mimeographed newsletter issued by Freedom House, a community organizing hub established in the Fillmore District of San Francisco in March 1964 to combat a proposed urban renewal project. The organization, which was primarily staffed by white college students from San Francisco..... More
Boca Raton, Florida / Highland, MD: Five Rings Corporation / Eagle Eye Communications Group, 1987. The inaugural issue of this Native American tabloid “dedicated to indigenous cultures and issues” and to the re-introduction of the “Native World-View - one that seriously reflects [the] Earth-based cultures and the wisdom of our..... More
[Lawrence, KS]: [Reconstruction Press], [1970]. An issue of the Lawrence, Kansas underground newspaper focused on the shooting death of a black youth at the hands of a Lawrence policeman during disturbances in the community. The cover features a Wanted for Murder poster for Patrolman Garrett, part of the zeitgeist, with..... More
Seattle: Helix, [1968]. An issue of Seattle’s underground newspaper featuring bold cover artwork by the Helix’s artist and associate editor, Walt Crowley, announcing his candidacy on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket for legislator. Also includes a multi-color centerfold spread on Crowley, in which he discusses his platform. Other notable..... More
Kyle, SD: Oglala Lakota College, 1988. An issue of this Oglala Lakota College newsletter serving the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. This issue focuses on efforts to combat the increasing rise in child and spousal abuse, alcohol and drug addiction and other social problems on the reservation. Includes victims’ testimonies and..... More
Detroit: Black Workers Congress, [1974]. A document issued by the Black Workers Congress (BWC) - and primarily directed at black revolutionaries - on preparing for proletarian revolution by merging the ‘Afro-American struggle with the American workers movement.” Content includes: I. Introduction II. The National Question in the U.S. Today III..... More
Chicago: Teachers for Integrated Schools, 1962. A small format pamphlet arguing in favor of integrating Chicago’s school system. The pamphlet begins with open letters to Chicagoans and Mayor Daley on the inequality and destructiveness of segregation before describing the ghetto schools that are underfunded, overcrowded, staffed by substitute teachers, with..... More
New York City: Harlem Section, Communist Party, [1935]. A pamphlet by James W. Ford, Secretary of the Harlem Section of the Communist Party USA, on the causes behind the Harlem Riot of 1935, which one scholar called “the first manifestation of a ‘modern’ form of racial rioting” (Grimshaw, Racial Violence..... More