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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
[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
Talent Search Series, 1981. A promotional booklet for a Holiday Showcase featuring “Talent Search” Winners at Danzey’s Retreat in Hempstead, NY. A single sheet folded, 4 p. Faint soiling and light edge wear. More
n.p. [United Klans of America?], [1967?]. An 8 ½” x 11” broadside reprinting text from the “Washington Observer Newsletter” trumpeting the damaging revelations found in MLK’s FBI file, including “involvement with Communist conspirators” and his “unsavory personal conduct in Washington hotels and elsewhere.” Although there is no identifying information as..... More
[New York: ARM 14], 1970. Tabloid format printed on newsprint, [8] pp, illus. Center fold, newsprint slightly browning, tiny splits at fold, about Near Fine. Three copies found in WorldCat (Univ. of VA, Wisconsin and Kansas). Scarce. A presumably one-off anti-drug publication by the unidentified ARM 14 in New York..... More
n.p.: n.p., [196-?]. An unattributed racist NAACP membership application very similar to one we’ve handled for the National Association for the Abolition of Caucasian People (NAACP). Questions include “Number of children claimed for relief check,” “Number of illegitimate children (if known),” “List of white schools you would like to attend,”..... 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
[Los Angeles]: Peace and Freedom Party, [1968]. A flyer for the Peace and Freedom Party’s 1968 campaign, which ran Eldridge Cleaver for President and Peggy Terry for Vice-President. Cleaver was left off the ballot since he didn’t meet the age requirement, so the party encouraged voters to vote for Terry..... 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
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
Buffalo: Attica Brothers Legal Defense, [1974?]. A detailed chronology of events pertaining to the Attica rebellion beginning with the uprising at NY State’s Auburn Prison in August, 1970, and ending with the April 1, 1974 indictment against Nelson Rockefeller by Attica Defense for “various crimes, including murder, against the people..... 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
Philadelphia: Journalists for Mumia, 2008. The second issue of this Mumia support publication started in 2007 by Philadelphia journalist Hans Bennett and German linguist Michael Schiffmann. Provides international coverage of support for Mumia with many articles on the legal aspects of his case. Contributions by Linn Washington, Jr., J. Patrick..... 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
n.p. n.p., [1966]. A presumed early and unrecorded draft of what is arguably the most important black power essay of the twentieth century: Stokely Carmichael’s “What We Want,” first published in the New York Review of Books on September 22, 1966. Published three months after Carmichael popularized the concept of..... 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
New York: Lyle Stuart, ©1960. “This Is What We Found began as a history assignment for Carl Creger, a seventeen-year-old white student of Little Rock’s Central High School. Ralph Creger is his father, chief train dispatcher in Little Rock for the Rock Island Railroad. Both father and son became so..... More