Item 1831Tiger in the Honeysuckle
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. Jacket design by Applebaum and Curtis. First printing. Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, black spine titles, brown endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, 306 pp.
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Item 3842The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1967. Jacket by Roy Schlemme. First Edition. Hardcover octavo in printed dust jacket. Black cloth with titles stamped to spine in gilt. Red end papers. 594pp. First Edition, first printing, of this simultaneously celebrated and controversial polemic assessing the struggle of black activists, artists.....
Item 920The King God Couldn't Save
New York: Coward-McCann, inc., 1970. Jacket design by Bob Reed. First Edition. 8vo, quarter bound in black paper with gilt lettering to violet cloth spine and front boards in photographic jacket, 221 pp.
Item 3330Burning Down the House: MOVE and the Tragedy of Philadelphia
New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1987. Hardcover octavo in dust jacket. Gray paper-covered boards backed in black cloth, titles in gilt to spine. xv, 409pp.
Item 3696Man Alive [carbon typescript on Jack Johnson and Sam Langford with holograph corrections]
n.p. n.p., [ca 1940]. Carbon-copy typescript (8-1/2 x 11 inches) with holograph corrections in pencil. Typed to recto only. 3pp. Draft typescript from Civil Rights leader and longtime director of the National Urban League, Lester B. Granger (1896-1976) on African-American boxing legends Sam Langford and Jack Johnson. After a childhood.....
Item 960American Socialist Triptych
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2017. Perfect-bound in glossy pictorial wraps, 8vo, 390 pp.
Item 2902Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. First Edition. Hardcover octavo in pictorial dust jacket. Mustard paper-covered boards half-backed in black cloth with lettering stamped in gilt and red to spine. Publisher's mustard endpapers. 209pp. Stated First Edition of King's fourth book, written during a period.....
Item 3468A Colored Woman in a White World
Washington, D.C. National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc., 1968. Hardcover octavo (5-3/4 x 8-3/4 inches) in photo-collaged dust jacket. Red cloth with titles stamped in gilt to spine. [10], 454pp. Scarce republication of activist, educator, and writer Mary Church Terrell's (1863-1954) groundbreaking autobiography, originally published in 1940.
Item 3288Visions of the Black Belt
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2015. Hardcover quarto (11-1/4 x 11-1/4 inches) black cloth boards with stamped black spine and cover titles, black endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, [v], xx, [1], 244 pp.
Item 2899The Black Experience
New York: Thomas A. Hearn, 1972. Perfect-bound (8.5 x 11 inches) in black illustrated wraps. x, 114pp. Scarce, profusely-illustrated text regarding the African-American experience "striving for their rights, equality, and personal dignity." Co-authored by Tuskegee Airman Roscoe C. Brown, who helmed many radio and television programs on the subject of.....
Item 2829My Daddy's People were Very Black
Newtown, MA: EDC Open Education Follow Through Project, 1976. Illustrations by Jeanne Johns. Saddle-stapled (5.5 x 8.5 inches) in illustrated wraps. [16]pp. Scarce poetry chapbook featuring work regarding James Van Der Zee, "Negro" spirituals, Arthur Ash, Arrow shirts, Negritude, family and friends, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and folkways records.....
Item 3185The Continuing Crisis: An Assessment of New Racial Tensions in the South
Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1966. First Edition, May 1966. Saddle-stapled (6 x 9 inches) in printed red wraps. 40pp. May, 1966 report from the Southern Regional Council, comprised of two parts. The first, "The South's Temper: 1964-1966", is an explicative report on the state of racial tensions and violence in.....
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Item 3839Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers [signed]
New York: Abrams, 2016. Photographs by Stephen Shames. First Edition. Hardcover quarto in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Yellow photo-illustrated boards with titles in black to spine. Yellow endpapers. 254pp. Beautiful, double-signed monograph depicting the visual and written history of the Black Panther Party through the lens of two of its crucial.....
Item 3933Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America
New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition, First Printing, stated. Hardcover in dust jacket. Gray blindstamped paper-covered boards backed with blue cloth. Gilt titling stamped to spine. Publisher's blue topstain. xii, 198pp.
Item 1025Stranger at the Gates
New York: Hill and Wang, 1966. Jacket illustration by Tracy Sugarman; jacket design y Erik Blegvad. First edition. Hardcover, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 8vo, 240 pp. Sugarman's illustrated memoir of civil rights organizing in Oxford, Mississippi during the summer of 1964. Introduction by Fanie.....
Item 565Yeah 7
New York City, NY: Birth Press, 1963. Cover design by Tuli Kupferberg; front cover drawing from Yankee Notions (NYC), October 1852. Softcover octavo, saddle-stapled in illustrated orange paper wrappers with brown lettering and decoration, 22 pp. The brain child of Sylvia Topp and Tuli Kupferberg's Birth Press, Yeah was the.....
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