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San Francisco: Freedom House, 1964. An issue 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
n.p. [Partisan Defense Committee?], [1994]. A poster announcing a demonstration organized by the Partisan Defense Committee against the Klan and other white supremacists in Springfield, IL, on January 16, 1994. The Klan was protesting the existence of Martin Luther King holiday, which was first observed in 1986. Approximately 55 white..... 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
[Fort Worth?]: Wonderful Workers of the World, [1947]. A small broadside announcing a membership drive for the Wonderful Workers of the World, an African-American benevolent association incorporated in Texas in 1920. The organization established lodges throughout the state, as well as in Louisiana and California and appears to have lasted..... More
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San Antonio: Black Truth Journal, 1987. An issue of this conservative black political newsletter with this issue mainly focusing on the deleterious effects of sanctions in apartheid South Africa and the brutality of the ANC / UDF. Other content reports on the number of blacks serving in top level positions..... More
New York: Socialist Workers Party, [1972]. A small poster featuring the election slogan of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) printed against the Pan-African flag designed by Marcus Garvey's UNIA in 1920. The flag symbolized freedom, pride and the political power of black Americans. The SWP first used the slogan Black..... More
[Columbus, Ohio?]: [Ohio State University], 1969. An unadorned pamphlet featuring the program for Black History Week at Ohio State University from February 9-15, 1969. The week featured speeches, workshops, film screenings, musical and dramatic performances, panel discussions, an art exhibit and a fashion show. Stapled, mimeographed sheets, 7 pp. +..... More
Chicago: Peoples College, 1981. A single issue of this black liberation newspaper published by the Peoples College in Chicago beginning in 1971. The theme for this issue is the “fight for liberation from the problems of oppression and exploitation,” and features a lengthy article on “Black History and Black Liberation”..... More
Raleigh: Black Workers for Justice, [198-]. A two-sided flyer calling for a boycott of Coors beer for its racist, anti-labor and anti-progressive corporate policies. The recto charges William Coors with being a slavery apologist and for propagating the theory that blacks are intellectually inferior to whites. At the bottom is..... More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., [1940]. A CPUSA campaign book that begins with biographies of candidates Earl Browder and James W. Ford. These are followed by the Preamble to the Constitution of the CPUSA, its election platform for 1940, sections on the Republican, Democrat and Socialist parties, and the..... More
Amherst: Committee for Collegiate Education of Black Students, [1973]. The second issue of this CCEBS newsletter, which primarily consists of a long “open letter to the black community” from Mike Thelwell, UMass-Amherst professor, SNCC & MFDP activist, and founding chairman of the W.E.B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies at UMass-Amherst..... More
Berkeley: Racism Research Project, 1975. A Marxist critique of the Black Nation Thesis, which the Racism Research Project contends was a misapplication of Stalin’s thesis on nationhood and the perpetuation of arbitrarily assigned racial categories. Stapled wrappers (8 ½” x 5 ½”), 32 p. A near fine copy. More
New York: MelPat Associates, 1971. Delegate was a long-running annual magazine affiliated with the National Association of Market Developers (NAMD) and published each year for its annual conference (the first issue was published in 1966). The NAMD was founded in 1953 as a "national, professional organization of specialists in sales..... More
New York: MelPat Associates, 1985. Delegate was a long-running annual magazine affiliated with the National Association of Market Developers (NAMD) and published each year for its annual conference (the first issue was published in 1966). The NAMD was founded in 1953 as a "national, professional organization of specialists in sales..... More
[Philadelphia]: Office of the District Superintendent, District One, Locke School, [196-?]. An 8 ½” x 11” mimeographed flyer announcing a talk at Locke School on the topic of “Inner Tensions and Gang Conflict in the Community.” The event was co-sponsored by the Educational Equality League, which was founded in 1932..... More
Amherst: Drum, 1984. A double issue of this long-running, irregularly published black literary magazine published by students UMass-Amherst from 1969-1988. Selected content for this double issue includes a long poem by Andrew Salkey, a long article on jazz, other articles on U.S. intervention in Central America, Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition..... More
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 Cleaver and the Oakland police, in which Cleaver was wounded and Panther Bobby Hutton was killed. The recto includes information on Cleaver’s legal status..... More
[San Francsco]: Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, [1981?]. A meeting called by the radical activist group Prairie Fire Organizing Committee around issues affecting progressives and minorities in San Francisco. Topics include crime and law and order, gentrification of third world neighborhoods, violence against women and gays, police brutality, and the rise..... More
New York: John A. Gray, Printer, 1860. A pamphlet related to the libel suit filed by the New York abolitionist, social reformer and philanthropist, Gerrit Smith, against the Vigilant Association, a group of Northern Democrats and Buchanan supporters who falsely claimed that Smith had inspired John Brown's attack at Harper's..... More
Girard, Kansas: E. Haldeman-Julius, [1938]. The second of at least 26 lecture outlines published by radical publisher Haldeman-Julius in collaboration with the Visual Education Press, of N.Y.C. These outlines were used by speakers in conjunction with large wall charts supplied by Visual Education Press for workers’ education groups. In a...... More
A tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. issued by the Chicago Sun-Times a few weeks after his assassination. The front cover features an illustration of King by Franklin McMahon and the rear cover features a photo originally published in Ebony Magazine. Inside are King's "Free at Last!" speech delivered in..... More
Brooklyn: Black Panther Party Legal Defense Fund, 1969. A mimeographed flyer accusing the "pig power structure" of killing the baby of Panther 21 defendant Curtis Powell whose wife went into labor caused by his violent arrest. The Powell's baby was born prematurely and died soon after. Also accuses the police..... More
New York: Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, [1972]. This issue of IFCO News focuses on liberation struggles in Namibia, Malcolm X Liberation University, George Jackson and criminal justice in the U.S., organizing Chicanos in South Texas, and the World Council of Churches' Program to Combat Racism. It also includes a...... More
Jackson for President Committee, 1984. A newspaper from Jesse Jackson’s 1984 Presidential campaign, which describes the various groups within his Rainbow Coalition, as well as his Presidential platform. The Rainbow Coalition was originally devised by Chicago Black Panther Fred Hampton during the late 1960s to describe the broad group of..... More
[New York]: Local 1 UPW-CIO, 1949. A folder of 17 songs distributed at the UPWA’s 1949 convention. Attendees were encouraged to “Save this Folder [to] “sing while you fight - on the picket line - on a picnic - at chapter meetings - socials - always.” The bulk of the..... More