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New York / Buffalo: National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression / Attica Defense Committee, [1973]. Two items issued by the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Oppression and the Attica Defense Committee on behalf of the Attica Brothers. Attica: Two Years Later includes background on the Attica rebellion, state..... More
New York: National Scholarship Service and Fund for Students, 1950. An early report from the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students (NSSFNS) detailing the organization’s activities from April through September 1950. Includes a summary of the number of students funded, the types of scholarships awarded, and the services..... 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
[Cranford, NJ?], 1949. A booklet issued by the Cranford Negro History Club in Cranford, NJ, for an event commemorating 1949’s Negro History Week featuring William Ashby, Executive Secretary of Urban League of Eastern Union County as guest speaker. The booklet begins with the club’s motto, “Enthusiasm sets the embers glowing..... 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
Detroit: Allan for Council Committee, [1946]. A mimeographed campaign flyer for Communist Party member William Allan’s campaign for the Detroit Common Council. Addressed to the National Negro Congress, a Communist Party affiliated organization founded in 1935, Allan criticizes the Council for “wasting” $100,000 on the Automotive Golden Jubilee while refusing..... More
Anderson, Ind. American Opinion Library of Madison County, Inc., [ca. 1965]. An anti-civil rights brochure from an Indiana chapter of the John Birch Society, which posits five “indisputable truths” about the the true nature of the Communist-inspired civil rights movement, which is one of the most “anti-freedom, anti-American, anti-Christian hoaxes..... 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
[Memphis?]: Southern Tenant Farmers Union, [1943]. An intra-war report on the projects of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, “an inter-racial organization...founded in 1934 by a group of Negro and white sharecroppers living on a cotton plantation in Eastern Arkansas.” The report provides an introduction to the union and updates on..... More
n.p.: [Ku Klux Klan?], [ca. 1984]. A two-sided 8 ½” x 11” flyer that reprints pseudo-scientific facts concerning the stunted evolutionary development of Blacks and cites statistics from various government reports on the disproportionate number of violent attacks by blacks on white. The recto lists 10 “facts” from an unidentified..... More
New York: Young Socialist Alliance, 1969. “This resolution was written for the Young Socialist National Convention to be held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, December 27-30, 1969. It was drafted by the National Executive Committee of the Young Socialist Alliance. This draft resolution is a continuation and elaboration..... More
[Berkeley?]: Third World Liberation Front, [1969]. A pamphlet written and published by the Third World Liberation Front providing a detailed chronology, a discussion of the politics and tactics of the strike, and a proposal for an alternative Third World College. Published after the strike was temporarily suspended on March 14..... More
Chattanooga: The Tennessee Society to Maintain Segregation, [ca. 1956]. An introductory brochure to the Tennessee Society to Maintain Segregation, one of a number of Tennessee segregationist groups to emerge following Brown v. Board of Education (1954). It includes the group’s founding and objectives, a blank membership form and a short..... More
New York: Council on African Affairs, 1950; 1954. Three scarce newsletters from the Council on African Affairs, which was founded in 1937 as the International Committee on African Affairs by Paul Robeson and Max Yergan. Robeson was Chairman for most of the group’s existence and W. E. B. Du Bois..... More
Washington, D. C. Southern States Press Association, [1958]. A virtually unobtainable racist and anti-Semitic publication concocted by Eustace Mullins, but issued under the pseudonym George Thomas Adams for the fictitious Southern States Press Association. The newsletter is a compilation of horrific news clippings of Black crime against White women and..... More
Detroit: International UAW-CIO Fair Practices Committee, [1943]. “This reprint from the UAW-CIO Policy Manual is being distributed for the handy reference and use of local stewards, committeemen and officers, and for International Representatives. It presents in simplified form all of the pertinent information about the President’s Committee on Fair Employment..... More
Los Angeles: Keep America Committee, [1956]. A pro-segregation flyer compiled by the Keep America Committee, an anti-Semitic, nationalist organization primarily run by Ms. Helen W. Courtois in Los Angeles. The recto reprints an article that originally appeared in “The County Record” in Williamsburg Co., SC, by Black minister, Rev. Webster..... More
San Francisco: First African Arabian Press, 1980-1989. A collection of four books by Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour (b. Donald Warden), a lawyer and businessman with deep ties to various Saudi businesses. He founded the Afro-American Association at UC Berkeley, which attracted Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, before founding an..... More
Culver City, CA: Anti-Racist Action Publishers, 2011. First edition. Tabloid newspaper format printed in black on newsprint; [8] pp. Single issue of this ARA journal, which includes an announcement of the formation of the Brown Riders Liberation Army, a lighter shade of the Black Riders Liberation Army; also, an update..... More
n.p., [ca. 1964]. "The first in a series of discussion papers on community organizing, organization and political action." Discusses the attempt by Yonkers CORE to organize tenant councils in the Negro section of Yonkers. Proposes a continuance of community organizing in this area with the recommendation that it be organized..... More
[Berkeley?: Bay Area Blacks United]. An 8½” x 11” mimeographed sheet threatening a boycott of businesses in downtown Berkeley, which the Bay Area Blacks United accuse of being run like a plantation. The boycott began on Aug. 31, 1968, in protest against numerous instances of police brutality against black citizens..... More
[Palm Beach, Florida]: Closer Up, 1958. A ‘Special Supplement’ of the far right newsletter founded by Upton Close (b. Josef Washington Hall) and edited by Don Bell, which focuses on the mechanism of heredity and the molecular differences between the races. The mutation that causes sickle cell anemia is used..... More
Los Angeles: National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee, [1964]. First edition. Stapled wrappers (5 ½” x 8 ¼”), 49 pp, illus. Light rubbing to wrappers, else Near Fine. Argues that HUAC perpetuates the unsubstantiated claim that the civil rights movement is Communist directed and therefore buttresses the..... More
Oakland, CA: The Black World Foundation, 1987. 25.5 x 18 cm; 64 pp. Saddle-stapled wrappers are slightly rubbed with cheap paper browning, else Near Fine. This issue dedicated to "Southern Africa: A Frontline War" and includes "An American Agenda with Southern Africa" by Jesse L. Jackson; "Strategic Options for International..... More
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Pineville, LA: The Conservative Society of America, [1969]. Conservative activist and publisher, Kent Courtney, accuses the Black Panthers of being a “criminal, treasonous, Communist organization seeking to destroy the United States.” Quad-fold brochure, very faint toning to edges, else Fine. Only seven copies found in OCLC institutions. More