![Item #10627 A-2 Stand [Fillmore Stand] (four issues](/pictures/thumb/10627.jpg?v=1676643794)
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
Los Angeles: American Christian Freedom Society, 1969. The American Challenger’s editor was the Rev. Uriah Fields who helped found the Montgomery Improvement Association in 1955, which coordinated the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Fields worked closely with Martin Luther King, Jr. before falling out with him over King’s alleged sympathy for Communism..... 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
![Item #10531 The Black American Truth Journal: Voice of the Black Silent Mayority [sic] Committee](/pictures/thumb/10531.jpg?v=1674588725)
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
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
Various cities: Pan-African Association, et al. 1990s. A collection of material from the Memphis branch of the Pan-African Association of America, one of ten regional groups under the aegis of the Pan African Movement Worldwide. According to business records the Memphis branch was officially incorporated in March, 1995, by Dr..... 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. Faint soiling to bottom of pages..... More
Berkeley: Independent Socialist Club, [1968]. “The ghetto uprisings which have turned cities throughout America into blazing battlefields are a natural, long-expected and entirely justified counterattack against the police and slum merchants who daily oppress the ghetto.” The ISR argues for a more organized approach to militant action, which should encompass..... 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
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
[Washington, D. C.]: The Ad Hoc Committee to Honor Julius Hobson, [1972]. A souvenir program for an event held on November 14, 1972 at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D. C. to honor the civil rights leader Julius Hobson (1922-1977). The event was initiated by the Washington Area Peace Action..... More
[Chicago]: B & W Printing Company, [1972]. A striking poster featuring a photograph of shirtless, barefoot, enchained Republic of New Afrika (RNA) prisoners being perp walked under the RNA slogan, “Free the Land!!” The public nature of the humiliating spectacle is clearly redolent of slave iconography and the choice of..... 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
n.p. n.p., [196-?]. An unused, gummed sticker featuring the slogan, “Freedom Is As Freedom Does,” which was the name of Corliss Lamont’s 1956 book on civil liberties. We were unable to determine who produced these, but they presumably preceded the passage of the Civil Rights Act (1964), although Jim Crow..... 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
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
[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
[New York]: [Communist Party USA], [1956]. An important internal document issued by the Harlem Regional Committee in response to the controversial Draft Resolution for the 16th National Convention of the Communist Party, U.S.A.. This report from the Harlem Committee states that “the Draft Resolution must state unequivocally that only a...... More
Communist Party, [1965?]. The Communist Party describes the characteristics and importance of the Negro revolution and situates it within the broader context of American political life directly following the assassination of President Kennedy. Corner-stapled 14” x 8 ½” sheets mimeographed on rectos only, folded (8 ½” x 7”), cover sheet..... 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
![Item #10690 "The Party and the Struggle for Negro Rights" [in] The Party Review, Number 2](/pictures/thumb/10690.jpg?v=1679481016)
San Francisco: California state organization of the Communist party, U.S.A., [195-]. An issue of the CPUSA’s pre-convention discussion bulletin featuring issues of interest to the California party members. The two internal pages feature two articles under the heading “The Party and the struggle for Negro rights.” In “Deep are the..... 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
Re-Evaluation Counseling, [197-?]. A poster advertising a screening of the 1970 documentary King: A Filmed Record…Montgomery to Memphis at UC Davis and sponsored by the controversial peer counseling group, Re-evaluation Counseling. The documentary was directed by Sidney Lumet and featured newsreel footage of King from 1955 until his assassination with..... More
Southern California District Communist Party, U.S.A., 1959. A reproduction of the 1946 Resolution, which formalized the Communist Party’s commitment to black liberation and civil rights. As stated at the outset, “Defense of Negro rights has became an imperative and inescapable task of the American labor-progressive coalition in the struggle against..... More