[New York], 1974. A small grouping of internal documents related to turmoil within the Puerto Rican Studies Department at Brooklyn College - CUNY in October, 1974. The controversy started when a popular faculty member, María Sánchez, was passed over for chairpersonship of the department in favor of Dr. Elba Lugo..... More
New York: Claridad, 1975. A single issue of this bilingual Puerto Rican tabloid published weekly in the U.S. (published daily in Puerto Rico). Content for this issue includes an editorial in support of May Day, articles on Vietnam, Cambodia, Puerto Rican workers, a special supplement on the trade union movement..... More
Seattle: Rational Island Publishers, 1976-77. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (8 ½” x 11”), 16, 24 pp., illus. In Spanish and English. Both issues with some toning, but about Near Fine. A scarce publication with only three institutions holding scattered issues in WorldCat (MSU, Stanford & UC Santa Cruz, with none holding..... More
Phoenix: Communist Party of Arizona, [ca, 1946]. An 8.5” x 11” mimeographed flyer published under the auspices of the Community Party of Arizona and calling for a mass meeting to protest the discrimination faced by Mexican-American veterans during Phoenix’s post-war housing crisis. Some white Phoenicians were incensed that the proposed..... More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, 1954. First edition. Stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers, 56 pp., 13 photographs, 2 illustrations. A publication by the Communist Party-affiliated, Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, denouncing the harassment and deportation of Mexicans under “Operation Wetback,” which began on June..... More
Belmont: American Opinion, ©1969. First edition thus. Plain, stapled wrappers (6” x 9”), 12 pp, photographs. A Fine copy. Seven copies found in WorldCat institutions. A John Birch Society offprint in which the author contends that since there aren’t many blacks in the Southwest to radicalize that the Communists are..... More