[New York]: [Afro American Philosophy Association]. 1983. Paperback. 4 vols. bound in 1 (as published). 168p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22cm. Light corner crease on front cover. Edited by Percy Johnston, a creative writer and a philosophy professor at Montclair State University, who founded the Afro American Philospohy Association... More
New York: Lancelot Harty, 1923. Paperback. 12p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22cm. Edges slightly discolored. Published Monthly by Lancelot Harty, an African American. OCLC locates only one holding (The Schomburg Center which holds Vol. 1, Nos. 1-11 (October, 1923-November, 19240. We don't know if additional issues were published after November..... More
San Francisco: The Black Panther Party, Ministry of Information, 1970. Tabloid newspaper format. 30 x 45 cm. Newsprint. photos, illustrations, (20)p. Later horizontal fold. Piece chewed off at top and bottom. Moderate browning. Subtitle: Black Community News Service. Appears to have a weekly in 1970. More
Dallas, Texas: Published by the Journalism Students of Booker T. Washington High School, 1942. High School newspaper. photos, 4p. 51 x 33 cm. Horizontal fold, presumably as published. Pages moderately browned, darker along edges and fold. 2 small tears and minor crease in margins near center fold. Issue folder horizontally..... More
Oakland, CA: The Voice Publishing Company. 1960. Newspaper Format. photos, 8p. 55 x 44 cm. Newsprint. Browned. Later vertical fold.. 11 cm. tear in lower edge of page 8. A weekly African American newspaper which began publication around 1920. Headline: "Calif. City Honors Negro As Top Citizen." A brief editorial..... More
Lawrence, Kansas: Printed by House of Usher, n.d. (1968). Hardcover. photos, (48) unnumbered pages. 26cm. Gluemark along front hinge. No jacket. History of the First Regular Missionary Baptist Church of Lawrence, Kansas. More
San Antonio: 1979. Hardcover. black & white photos, 4-151p. Original beige binding. 29cm. Mostly closed gouge on backstrip. Internally as new. No jacket (probably as published). This African American church was established as Macedonia Baptist Church in 1879 and changed it name to Second Baptist Church in 1890. More
Stanford: 1969. 4p. newspaper format. 37 x 29 cm. Slightly crooked horizontal fold. At head of title: Freedom or Revolution. This small format newspaper identifies itself as "Organ of Black Students of Stanford University." Ray Davis is listed as editor. We don't know how long or how many issues of..... More
Montgomery, Alabama: 1914. Four-page weekly newspaper. 41 x 28 cm. Later horizontal fold. Small split at one end of fold. Blank lower left corner torn off. Foxing in right margiong of first page. Name in pencil at top of first page ("Prof. Sibley Supt of Col. Rural Schools"). More
Chicago: Lu Palmer Foundation, Inc., 1979. Paperback. 52p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22cm. Generally sound and clean although there is visible cover foxing and wear. Julian Bond was the keynote speaker at this tribute for Jarrett, an African American journalist who started his career at the Chicago Defender and became..... More
New York. Paperback. [49]-96p. Softcover. 24 cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume).Lacks wrapper. Contents include: "What Europe Thought of the Pan-African Congress" by *Jessie Fauset (pages 60-67); and "The Virgin of Guadalupe" by *Langston Hughes (most of page 77). More
Undated [1960s]. Paperback. Broadside Poster. Undated [1960s]. 58 x 76cm. Unframed. A nice display piece for someone interested in union militancy. The Drum Slate appears to have been a group of African American members of the United Auto Workers. There is a photograph of 10 African Americans (perhaps "The Drum..... More
New York: Nesdor, (c, 1939). 1st ed. Paperback. map, 46p. Softcover in original wrapper. 21 cm. title-leaf detached. Cover almost entirely split and detached at fold (and map be completely split before anyone gets this copy). Numerous pencil line in margins. Name ("Dorothy Herzog") and telephone number in pencil on..... More
Springfield: 1944. 4-page newspaper. 38 x 56 cm. Headline, "Negro Churchmen Endorse Roosevelt: National Non-Partisan Churchmen's Committee for Re:Election of President Roosevelt. Moderate browning. Edges chipped. Later vertical crease. Two small yellow spots on front leaf. African American newspaper. First three pages mostly devoted to biographical and other information about..... More
Saddle River, N.J. Alfred P. Smith, 1894. 4 unnumbered pages. No separate wrapper. 21 cm. Browned. A couple of short tears. This little monthly newspaper was the first newspaper to be published by an African American in the State of New Jersey. While it began as an amateur newspaper, this..... More
Los Angeles: 1968. Paperback. Full size 32-page weekly newspaper published in four sections. 58cm. Folded. Some chipping and wear but complete and intact. African American newspaper. Articles in the Sports Pages look forward to O.J. in the Rose Bowl and report that the UCLA Bruins led by Lew Alcindor have..... More
[New York?]: December 12th Movement, 1997. Broadside. 28 x 22 cm. More
Olathe, Kansas: Second Baptist Church, 1987. Paperback. 34 (p). Softcover in original wrappers. 28cm. First of the two pages about the Pastor has three short underlinings with an orange marker. The exact chronology of this African American church's early history is now a bit indefinite according to the one-page "Partial..... More
Chicago: Muhammad's Mosque No. 2, 1967. Tabloid-sized newspaper format. photos, illustrated, 28p. 40 x 30 cm. Newsprint has moderate browning but is not brittle. "Dedicated to Freedom Justice and Equality for the so-called Negro. The Earth Belongs to Allah." [statement in boxed ear at left of title on front page]..... More
New London: New London County Historical Society, Inc., n.d. Reprint. Paperback. (24)p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22cm. Late 20th century reprint of an earlier edition of this uncommon slave narrative. More
New York: Negro Publication Society of America, 1942. Paperback. v, [105]-191p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Some cover wear and foxing. Light soil. A few scattered blue pencil underlinings and markings. Edited by *Angelo Herndon. This issue includes "Anti-Negroism among Jews, by Louis Harap, "Anti-Semitism among Negroes," by L. D...... More
New York: National Urban League, 1940. Paperback. illustrations, pages 34-64. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Adhesion loss along top centimeter on back cover. Includes "Dry Fields and Green Pastures - Part II" by Alain Locke (pp 41-47). More
New York: 1906. Paperback. [pp. 537-586] plus a total of [20] unnumbered pages of advetisements before and after text. Softcover in original wrapper. 26cm. Cover has edge-wear. Small sticker on front cover. A few leaves have a short tear in right margin. One of the articles in this issue is..... More
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Philadelphia: Philadelphia Independent Publishing Company, 1955. 24p. Newsprint (center and outer leaves pink). Splitting along horizontal fold (cellophane tape repair on first leaf). Moderate browning. Headline: Pastor's Wife Kills Self; Family Bitter" in this newspaper which billed itself as "The World's Greatest Negro Tabloid." More
Akron: Educatr Publishing Company. 12p. Newspaper format. 57cm x 41. Later vertical fold. Browned but not brittle. Headline in this African America weekly is all too familiar -- "Brutality Complaint Refused" above a story about police violence against a 15 year-old African American boy with the city reportedly refusing to..... More
