[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
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
[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
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
[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
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
n.p. [Progressive Party, [1952?]. A statement by the Progressive Party on enfranchisement for “the Negro people” who are “leading the hardest hitting movement for the full freedom, welfare and peace of our nation.” The Party argues for the election of blacks to local, state, and national offices and concludes with..... More
Oakland: Uhuru House, [1983]. A flyer documenting the dispute between the African People’s Socialist Party and their landlord Asher Levine, who they accuse of being a slumlord. Following Levine’s neglect of Uhuru House, the APSP began withholding rent and demanding reparations. Levine countered by “harassing” the group and numerous APSP..... More
[Detroit?]: [1977?]. A poster that appears to be part tribute to pioneering black activist Paul Robeson and part campaign material for Erma Henderson who ran for President of the Detroit City Council in 1977. Henderson was the first black woman elected to the Detroit City Council in 1972 and a...... More
New York: [Communist Party], [1972?]. A small piece of campaign literature for Communist Party member and Vice Presidential candidate, Jarvis Tyner, who ran alongside Gus Hall in both 1972 and 1976. We assume this is from 1972 since no previous campaigning is mentioned in the men’s biographies. The internal pages..... More
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Paterson, N. J. United Front National Youth Day Committee, [1933]. A flyer for National Youth Day, a Young Communist League-sponsored event provocatively held on Memorial Day, 1933 to “demonstrate against the danger of Bosses’ War, against the growing unemployment, against wage cuts and discrimination of Negro workers.” Although advertised as..... 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
[Los Angeles]: [Los Angeles County, Educational Department, Communist Party], [1954]. An article by Communist theoretician Herbert Aptheker, in which he extols the revolutionary spirit of the black liberation movement and its loyalty to the concept of freedom. He compares this with the imperialist and racist doctrines of the ruling class..... 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
[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
Philadelphia: Black Panther Party, [1970]. A two-sided flyer distributed by the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party following the death of Harold Brown, a young Black man, killed by two Philadelphia police officers. The recto juxtaposes a statement by the notorious Philadelphia police commissioner, Frank Rizzo, exonerating the two..... More