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San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1967. First Edition. Tabloid (44.5cm); photo-illustrated newsprint wrappers; 12pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, modest toning to wrappers, with a few tiny nicks and tears; Very Good+. Well-preserved issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on Stokely Carmichael's visit to Cuba (by Julius Lester), Gary Rader's letter from jail, Fidel Castro on Stokely & Black Revolution, and a centerfold dedicated to the Dixie Hills community in Atlanta. Lengthy "Stop the Draft Week" article on rear cover.

San Francisco: The Movement Press, 1968. First Edition. Tabloid (44.5cm); photo-illustrated newsprint wrappers; 12pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, moderate wear along spine-fold, with a horizontal fold at center; Very Good+. Well-preserved issue of this SNCC and SDS-affiliated newspaper. Contents include articles on H.Rap Brown's life and activities while under house arrest, the Peace & Freedom Party, Chicago police agents exposed, Arthur Kinoy's speech to the SDS convention, and the battle for San Francisco State College, organizing white workers.

[Atlanta]: The Committee on Appeal for Human Rights and The Student--Adult Liaison Committee, [1960]. Handbill, with text offset printed in black on white stock, measuring 14cm x 22cm (5.5" x 8 10/16"). Fine. Circular produced by the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR), formed in February, 1960 by a group of Atlanta University Center students who coordinated a variety of sit-ins, boycotts, and non-violent events to demand racial desegregation in Atlanta. The present handbill would have been distributed within the Black community, calling for residents to boycott businesses in the downtown area - essentially a call to keep Black dollars within the Black community. After listing some data regarding the boycott, they conclude with two bullet-points under "This You Should Do: continue to refuse to pay to be segregated, and call 10 of your friends every day and impress upon them the importance of our sacrifice for success in '61.

New York: Jewish Currents, 1968. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.75cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; 46pp; illus. Light wear and handling to wrappers, with a tiny stain and a small abrasion to lower rear wrapper; Very Good+. A lengthy response by King to an inquiry addressed to him after a New Politics Convention in Chicago, IL, asking him to "disassociate himself publicly" from anti-Israel and anti-Semitic manifestations at the Convention. He responds (in part) quite emphatically: "SCLC has expressly, frequently and vigorously denounced anti-Semitism and will continue to do so. It is not only that anti-Semitism is immoral - though that alone is enough. It is used to divide Negro and Jew, who have effectively collaborated in the struggle for justice" (p.8). Additional contributors include Anatol Rapoport, Louis Harap, and Daniel N. Stone. An uncommon appearance, not cited in Pyatt (Martin Luther King, Jr. An Annotated Bibliography).

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); grey paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xii,146,[2]pp. Gentle sunning to upper board edges, previous owner's ink name to upper front endpaper, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.50), showing moderate rubbing, a few small tears to front panel, and faint dampstaining along the flap folds; just Very Good. A collection of 17 sermons preached during the time of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, touching on various social problems, with an emphasis that love is the imperative. PYATT 0047; BLOCKSON 4117.

Washington, 1864. Three sheets, each 7 1/4 x 5 inches. Loose sheets. Two slits at gutter margins for intended binding. A couple of small creases at corners. Very good. Three interesting General Orders from the War Department at the end of 1864 relating to freedman and the organization of black troops in the Union Army. Two of the orders authorize transportation of supplies and books by the United States Army on behalf of the United States Commission for the Relief of the National Freedmen, as well as for the American Freedmen's Friends Society and the Executive Committee for the Relief of Freedmen of Iowa. The third order reorganizes black troops in the Union Army from Virginia and North Carolina into the 25th Corps.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1976. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); dark brown cloth, with titles stamped in pale yellow on spine; dustjacket; [xii],[2],3-82pp, with eight inserted pages of photographic illustrations. A few faint spots of discoloration to cloth along upper and lower edges, and some ink underlining and marginalia scattered throughout the first chapter; Very Good. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, with some mild surface wear and a short tear at lower front panel; Very Good+. Authoritative analysis of the successes and failures of the Civil Rights movement by Rustin (1912-1987), a leading strategist of the movement, avowed pacifist, and member of the War Resisters League. He begins at the early years of the movement, with the formation of the NAACP, the first March on Washington (1941), and the foundation of CORE, though a substantial portion of the volume is dedicated to the 1963 March on Washington, and his assessment that successful protests are "the product of… Read More

Vicksburg, Ms, June 6, 1865.. 4pp., on a small bifolium. Slight chips at upper right corner, two slits at gutter margin for intended binding. Faint foxing at edges. About very good. A brief report on the courts-martial of two officers in the 58th Colored Infantry in Vicksburg, two months after the surrender of the Confederacy. Col. Simon M. Preston, the commanding officer of the regiment, was convicted of several charges relating to a false muster roll and intentionally reporting another officer as absent with leave; he was cashiered. Lieut. W.B. Brinkerhoff was found not guilty of drunkenness on duty and joining an expedition without authority. Not located in OCLC.

[Memphis, TN], 1864. 4to. One-page; docketed verso. The manuscript shows that S. H. Cobb, Superintendent of Colored Schools, received $438.25 in tuition for the month. Old fold lines, very good.

Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, 1963. Later Printing. Slim octavo (22.75cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 15,[1]pp. Modest handling, faint tidemark to lower right margin, with eight tiny green ink marks in the text; Very Good. King's eloquent assertion of the principles of non-violent resistance, which would become one of the key documents of the American civil rights struggle, and one of the most significant 20th century works written by a political prisoner. King's letter was written as a response to "A Call for Unity," an open letter by eight white clergymen in Birmingham (published April 12, 1963) in response to the civil rights demonstrations taking place there at the time. The local ministers were opposed to the events "directed and led in part by outsiders" (a thinly-veiled reference to King) and declaring his activities "unwise and untimely," and while they agreed that racial and social injustices existed, they urged negotiations with the local establishment, and for those… Read More

New York: Jewish Currents, 1963. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; 48pp; illus. Light wear and handling, tiny stain to lower edge of front wrapper; Near Fine. Contents include UN correspondent David Matis's lengthy article "Birmingham Diary: A Reporter's Observations," which contained on-the-ground coverage of the SCLC's Birmingham Campaign. Couched within the article is a full-page excerpt of "Letter from Birmingham City Jail," Martin Luther King's eloquent assertion of the principles of non-violent resistance, which would become one of the key documents of the American civil rights struggle, and one of the most significant 20th century works written by a political prisoner. The text appears on p.12, under the title "The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. To His Fellow Ministers." This appearance is not mentioned in Pyatt's MLK bibliography, but chronologically ranks among its earliest periodical apperances.

Atlanta: The Student Voice, Inc, 1964. First Edition. 4to, each a single sheet folded, folded sheet measuring 8 1/2 x 11. Minimal wear, fine condition. Fine. The Student Voice was the weekly publication of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, during the height of the Civil Rights era. Because of the pace and volume of publications that SNCC was responsible for during the period, the SNCC's in-house printing operations were incorporated separately as The Student Voice, Inc., in 1963 after a donation of $15,000 allowed them to expand their productions. Mark Suckle and Wilson Browne, who had done most of the production work themselves up to this point, were then able to hire a full staff to assist with the production. The Student Voice was a highly important publication, providing information to SNCC allies, mostly in the north, of news events that local papers would not cover, and also assisting in the protection of SNCC workers and their local collaborators by exposing the… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Third Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); light and dark grey paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [5],6-496 + [16]pp of photographs. Inscribed on the half-title page to Puerto Rican editor, translator, and literary critic Roberto Marquez: "To Bob, With faith and hope, keep your eyes on the prize / Best wishes / John Lewis / 8-28-98." Spine ends gently nudged, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $26.00), with light wear to spine ends and extremities; Near Fine. Sharp copy of this critically acclaimed Civil Rights memoir by the American politician and former chairman of the SNCC.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Quarto (27.5cm); charcoal grey paper-covered boards and white cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; [9],10-127,[1]pp; illus. Hint of sunning to spine, small patch of sticker residue to front endpaper, else a clean, Near Fine copy, lacking the dustjacket. Superb documentary photobook on the Civil Rights struggle in the South, with images taken chiefly by SNCC staff photographer Danny Lyon, but also Roy De Carava, Robert Frank, David Heath, Kenneth Thompson, Don Charles, and Norris McNamara. Text supplied by African-American playwright Lorraine Hansberry, among the last works she would contribute to prior to her death in 1965.

Congressional Committee report on the Fort Pillow Massacre, 38th Congress. First edition. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1864. Measuring 6" x 9", 128 pages plus 42 unpaginated pages. This book contains two reports concerning the Fort Pillow Massacre, an American Civil War incident. The Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow massacre, was fought on April 12, 1864, at Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River in Henning, Tennessee, during the American Civil War. The battle ended with soldiers commanded by Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest massacring U.S. Army soldiers (many of them African Americans) attempting to surrender. Military historian David J. Eicher concluded: "Fort Pillow marked one of the bleakest, saddest events of American military history." The first section is an investigation and includes haunting testimony from witnesses "Most of the men that were killed on our side were killed after the fight was over... they were wounded, and could not walk. They… Read More

New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); bluish-grey paper-covered boards and turquoise cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and authors initials embossed onto front cover; light blue topstain; dustjacket; [4],xvi,198,[6]pp. Topstain faded, with a faint, tiny splash mark to heel; contents fresh; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.95), showing light wear and a hint of sunning to extremities, with a few tiny nicks and tears, and a faint, corresponding splash mark to base of spine; Very Good+. A major work by Carmichael and Hamilton, first published by Random House in 1967, delineating the political framework and ideology of Black Power, which they felt represented "the last reasonable opportunity for this society to work out its racial problems short of prolonged guerrilla warfare. That such violent warfare may be unavoidable is not herein denied. But if there is the slightest chance to avoid it, the politics of Black Power as described… Read More

[Memphis, 1964. Near fine.. Broadside handbill printed on orange paper, 9 x 5.75 inches. Light edge wear, short closed tear. An exceedingly-rare handbill calling for a boycott of Stag Beer in Memphis in the early-1960s. The impetus for the boycott was the lack of African American representation in A.S. Barboro Distributing, the distribution company that delivered Stag Beer around Memphis. The text of the flyer reads: "Boy-Cott Stag Beer. Stop Before You Buy. Are You a Stag Beer Drinker? If You Are, You are Drinking Segregation. Don't Drink Segregation - Fight It!! The NAACP is Fighting It. Why don't we all Join in the fight. 80 Per Cent of us Drink Stag Beer. But how many Negro Salesmen do they have? None. A.S. Barboro Dist. of Stag Beer has about twenty Beer Trucks Rolling Everyday. We should have about Ten Negro Salesmen on some of those Trucks. We the Negro People of this city that Drink Stag, We must Stop to Get Some Action. LOOK AROUND AT THE TABLE NEXT TO YOU. WHAT DO YOU SEE? STAG BEER. THAT… Read More

1860s. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth, morocco backstrip; folio (400x260mm); approx. pp. 100 full of manuscript entries by a single hand, with permanent instructions and headings in ink, and crew member names and station designations in pencil; numerous additional blanks at rear. (Nonetheless, a trove of information.) Lined paper, listing the 614 men aboard, assigning each a number, gun, and location (Fore Castle Port, Main Top, Mizzen Top, etc.); listing division and stations; and recording details of every situation that might occur on the ship (see examples below). The ship is unnamed, but it appears to be a ship of the Line or a Frigate, which had 3 masts as well as some minimal amount of steam power. There were 6 African-American members of the crew, all of whom were Union Sailors during the Civil War (Edward Turner Joseph Davis, and Thomas Mills from Maryland; Henry Andres from the West Indies; Joseph Gordan from New York; Samuel R. Whittaker from Buenos Aires). Three of these men served on… Read More

Chicago: International Labor Defense, 1936. Flier measuring 8 ½ x 11 ½ inches, with ticket measuring 4 x 2 inches. Some light wear and toning, near fine. Near Fine. A pair of items relating to Angelo Herndon and the International Labor Defense's efforts on behalf of the Scottsboro Boys in 1936 in Chicago. The flier advertises an appearance by Herndon at the Metropolitan Community Church at 4100 South Parkway. The flier urges readers to send protest telegrams to President Roosevelt and Governor Bibb Graves of Alabama demanding the Scottsboro Boys' release. It adds" The United Action of all people, black and white will stop Jim Crowism, lynching and frame-up of innocent workers." The second item, a ticket for a separate event involving Herndon on Sept 14th, where he appeared alongside Clarence Norris and an unidentified speaker with the last name Moore at a mass meeting. The ticket gives free admission to "Unemployed Marcher to Neighborhood." An interesting pair of items documenting Herndon's… Read More

[Way Key, Fl, 1865. Very good.. Partially-printed muster roll completed in manuscript, approximately 21 x 31 inches. Old folds, some separations at crossfolds (as usual), minor wear and soiling. A rare muster roll recording details of the service of an African-American infantry company while stationed in Florida during the final year of the Civil War. The roll details pay from February to June 1865 for thirty-five privates, one bugler, and nine officers, including name, rank, location and date, the date each "joined for service," "mustered into service," and last date of payment, plus the name of one discharged soldier. Except for the commanding officer Capt. Oliver Ireland and First Lieutenant Solomon Whiting, all of the soldiers have "signed with an X" which was witnessed by Whiting. The privates generally received eighty-eight dollars for the four-month period, including twenty-four dollars in back pay; the officers, of course, received greater compensation. Most of the enlisted soldiers here… Read More