San Francisco: International Committee to Release Eldridge Cleaver, [1968]. An information sheet and petition demanding the release of Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver following a shootout between the Panther and the Oakland police, in which Cleaver was wounded and Panther Bobby Hutton was killed. The recto includes information on Cleaver’s legal..... More
Glendale, California: [1969]. McBirnie, the pastor and radio personality, investigates “The Black Conspiracy,” the Communistic or anarchistic arm of the civil rights movement most responsible for the violence, racial tension, and destruction. This includes the “savage, frenzied extremism” of the Black Panther Party, the Black United Front, SNCC, the Black..... More
Glendale, CA: A Voice of Americanism Publication, [1967?]. Two Christian evangelical pastors dispute the notion that conservatives are racists and point to the real racists: black Muslims, black anti-Semites, anti-black blacks, and white extremists such as the Ku Klux Klan and the “left wing” [???] American Nazi Party. They then..... More
Tulsa: Christian Crusade Publications, 1970. First edition. One of a number of publications distributed by the Far Right intent on discrediting the Panthers by painting them as Communist subversives. Includes the Panthers' origins and demands, their red and criminal tendencies, their educational objectives to "indoctrinate the minds of Black people,"..... More
Chicago: Institute of Positive Education, 1972-1978. A collection of pamphlets from the Institute of Positive Education, an Afrocentric organization founded in Chicago in 1969 by Don Lee (Haki Madhubuti) and others. In 1974, the group established the New Concept Development Center (now, New Concept School) to promote African centered education..... More
Cambridge, MA: New Departures, Inc., 1990. The first issue of this magazine “concerned with providing a forum for uninhibited commentary on African-American politics, society and culture.” Founded & edited by controversial Harvard law professor, Randall Kennedy - with the assistance of his wife, Yvedt Matory, this issue features contributions from..... More
Pasadena: The Network of Patriotic Letter Writers, [1966]. A small two-sided poster distributed by the right wing Network of Patriotic Letter Writers reprinting two articles from the Congressional Record on Communist Plans for Guerrilla Warfare in the United States, an article from Frank Capell’s Herald of Freedom on The Black..... More
Washington, D. C. Blacks Against Nukes, Inc., 1983. An issue of B.A.N.’s newsletter, published to “be an educational center of information for Black, Third World, and poor people to make them aware of the serious implications of nuclear power and weapons.” This issue reprints excerpts of a letter from a...... More
New York: Angela Davis Legal Defense Fund, [1971]. A support appeal for an imprisoned Davis following her alleged role in the Marin Co. Courthouse debacle. The pamphlet includes an introduction from actorvist, Ossie Davis, who helped found Davis’ Legal Defense Fund, followed by Rev. Ralph Abernathy’s “I Bring an Indictment..... More
Reedy, West Virginia: Liberty Bell Publications, [1977?]. A separate edition of an article originally appearing in the June 1977 issue of the white power magazine, The Liberty Bell, and according to the editor’s note, “the complete and unabridged rendition of the author’s manuscript.” Peterson compares forced racial integration in the..... More
New York: The Alliance, Inc., 1958. First printing. The author contends that race hatred in the U.S. is fomented by Communists through groups such as the NAACP, but that Marx himself believed blacks to be inferior as evidenced by his letters to Engels. He concludes by positing that Communists don’t..... More
Dallas: American Nazi Party, [196-]. An American Nazi Party flyer urging the repatriation of all American blacks as the “greatest blessing to the Negro and white races in the years to come.” The group quotes Marcus Garvey (“A Negro world is what we want”) and concurs with his desire for..... More
Washington, D. C. The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., [1947?]. In this pamphlet, the Jewish Marxist Herbert Aptheker documents the involvement of black soldiers in the Civil War to counter the view of at least one historian that “The American negroes are the only people..... More
n.p. Fighting American Nationalists, [196-]. Unused letterhead from the Fighting American Nationalists (FAN), an American Nazi Party (ANP) front group formed by ANP leader George Lincoln Rockwell in Chicago in late 1960. The group, which had chapters in numerous cities, adopted the street fighting tactics of the ANP and often..... More
New York: International Labor Defense, 1935. An appeal for the release of Angelo Herndon, a black Communist organizer sentenced to 18-20 years in an Atlanta prison after being charged under a pre-Civil War law for insurrection. Herndon had been organizing black & white workers in Atlanta in July 1932 when..... More
Washington, D. C. National Council of Negro Women, Inc., [1967]. A detailed annual report for 1967 outlining the goals, activities, and membership of the National Council on Negro Women, which was founded in 1935 by Mary McLeod Bethune to advance the opportunities and the role of black women in their..... More
New York: National Education Dept., Communist Party, U.S.A., 1953. The CPUSA looks to the Soviet Union and the writings of Joseph Stalin to “state or rather re-state our position on a number of propositions which are currently the subject of unclarity, confusion and, in some cases, deviations, bearing upon our..... More
Chicago: New University Conference, 1970. A compilation of articles by NUC members on various aspects of the black liberation movement and the role of white radical activists. Unbound, folded sheets (11” x 8 ½”), 34 p., illus. Some toning along the fore-edge, else Fine. More
New York: The Sperry and Hutchinson Company, 1973. Revised Edition. A quiz devised by two NYU Institute for Afro-American Affairs instructors highlighting the contributions and achievements of African descended peoples, primarily in the U.S. The quiz is organized into four sections: Part I - People and Their Work; Part II..... More
San Francisco: National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, [1972]. A pamphlet celebrating the acquittal of Angela Davis and detailing the grassroots campaign that led to her release. Includes a lengthy preface by the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis followed by the closing defense argument of Davis’ attorney..... More
Richmond: The Patrick Henry Group, [1963?]. 50 profiles compiled from HUAC data showing the Communist sympathies of officers, members of the board of Directors, legal, health and other committees of the NAACP, as well as to certain members of the organization’s executive staff. Implicated figures including W. E. B DuBois..... More
La Jolla, Calif. Constructive Action, Inc., [1966]. A two-sided newsprint poster published by the right wing Constructive Action, Inc. chronicling the increasing expressions of black violence stoked by civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., black nationalists such as the Revolutionary Action Movement, and militant & moderate civil..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1996. Collector's Edition. Scuff mark to the gilt on the bottom edge of vol. II, else a Fine set. Bookplates laid in to both volumes. More
Washington, D. C. Resources for Community Change, 1976. A resource guide for community activists involved in anti-capitalist, anti-racist, pro-labor, and pro-women’s rights organizing. The guide is divided into three sections: articles, which provide analysis, strategies, and an overview of the problem; groups, which provide examples of how people are working..... More
Los Angeles: Federation of Parents & Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Inc., 1982. Later printing. A booklet published by a parental gay & lesbian advocacy group “to help change attitudes and create an environment of understanding so that our Gay children can live with dignity and with respect” (p. 3)..... More