Durham: North Carolinians Against Racist and Religious Violence, 1987 / 1989. Two issues of the newsletter of the Durham, NC-based watchdog group. Each issue reports on racist activity around NC and the counter-demonstrations to oppose it. The Christian Knights are profiled in the Fall 1987 issue and white nationalist Harold..... More
Nashville, Tenn. The Southern Movement Press, [1969]. An issue of the Southern Student Organizing Committee’s newspaper, which focuses on radical organizing in the South. Content is primarily organized by state and includes original and reprinted articles on SSOC activities in North & South Carolina, Florida, West Virginia, Arkansas, Georgia and..... More
New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1930. A report on the violence perpetrated against organized workers in Gastonia and Marion, NC during labor struggles in 1929, in which 7 strikers were killed, 24 wounded, 7 sentenced to long prison terms and 7 kidnapped. Key events and participants are summarized. The..... More
New York: New Century Publishers, 1961. Two essays from Communist Party leaders on the Freedom Riders in Alabama and what Aptheker terms the “new secession,” or the South’s defiance of federal laws against Jim Crowism and segregation. Stapled wrappers (7 ¾” x 5 ¼”), 16 p. Some rubbing to wrappers..... More
Richmond, Va. The "Southern Clinic" Press, 1907. First edition. Slim 12mo. Half blue, half grey ribbed cloth stamped in gilt; 102 pp.; frontispiece + one illustrative plate executed by the author's daughter, Mildred. A love story set in the post-Civil War South concerning the titular Kitty Dixon, "a Yankee girl..... More
New Orleans: Faruk von Turk, 1976. Third Edition. A reprint of two George Cable articles that were originally published in the February and April 1886 issues of The Century Magazine. This edition was printed by Faruk von Turk (Justin Winston), a New Orleans-based jazz aficionado and sci-fi fan involved in..... More
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1969. First edition. Octavo; marbled wrappers printed in red; vii, 123 pp. A collection of letters from middle and upper middle class denizens of Athens to their loved ones fighting for the Confederacy. Very slight wear to wrapper edges, but Near Fine. More
New York: New Century Publishers, 1960. The abridged text of the report delivered by Benjamin Davis, National Secretary of the Communist Party, at the meeting of its National Committee, held in Chicago, March 25-27, 1960. Davis reports on the heroic efforts of Southern blacks in resisting Jim Crow and demands..... More
Lawrence, Kansas: The University of Kansas Libraries, 1962. Octavo; plain, stapled wrappers; 57 pp.; frontispiece of Fraser, one illustration. A long introduction contextualizing Col. Fraser's imprisonment at C.S.M Prison in Columbia before reprinting his petition. Some light foxing to wrappers, but about Near Fine. More
Cherokee, NC: The Tribal Council of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, 1971. Two issues of this weekly North Carolina Native American newspaper reporting on the life and activities of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Issues include Vol. 4, Nos. 40-41. Tabloid format printed in black on newsprint, 4..... More
Natchez, Miss. Printed by Tom L. Ketchings Co., [1942]. A fold-out brochure advertising the 1942 Natchez Pilgrimage, a tour of antebellum houses in Natchez, Mississippi, which began in 1932 under the aegis of the Pilgrimage Garden Club. Evening activities included the Confederate Ball Tableaux and the singing of Negro spirituals..... More
Atlanta: Atlanta Historical Society, 1979. 4to.; perfect-bound, illustrated wrappers, 149 pp., illus. A special issue of “The Atlanta Historical Bulletin” on the personal perspective of Atlanta in the Civil War, which was also a major 1979 exhibition of the Atlanta Historical Society. Includes, “Life at the Crossroads of the Confederacy..... More