[New Orleans: Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc., 1948]. [4]pp., on a single folded folio sheet. Old horizontal fold, minor wear. A rare declaration of civil rights "approved at a Conference on Civil Rights at Madison Hall, University of Virginia" in 1948 by the Southern Conference Educational Fund. The group bills..... More

[Oakland]: Voice Publishing Company, 1946. 140pp. Original tan wrappers printed in black. Some creasing and light chipping to wrappers. Internally clean. Sixth edition, revised and enlarged, with the subtitle reading "A book discussing the problems of unity and co-operation among American Negroes in those matters concerning their betterment." Barrett's work..... More

New York: NAACP, 1949. Broadside, 11 x 8.5 inches. Old folds, short separations of crossfolds, minor toning. An offprint of an article printed in The Crisis, discussing the "old phrases," "name-calling," "angled 'news' stories," "half-truths" and "whole lies" being printed by the Communist Party in their mouthpiece, The Daily Worker..... More

[Albany: NAACP Northeastern Region, ca. 1965]. Four-color broadside, 14 x 11 inches. Soft central horizontal crease, minor adhesive remnants on verso from former mounting. A striking four-color broadside produced by the New York State Conference of the NAACP in Albany to encourage African American men and women to exercise their..... More

New York: Scottsboro Defense Committee, 1937. 16pp. Original self wrappers printed in black and crimson, stapled. Minor edge wear and dust soiling to wrappers. Internally clean. A scarce pamphlet devoted to publicizing the injustices wrought by the Alabama court system on the “Scottsboro Boys,” nine African American youths who were..... More

[Memphis: ca. 1964]. 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..... More

New York: [Civil Rights Congress], 1948. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Mild toning. An uncommon ephemeral item issued by the Civil Rights Congress (1946-1956), an organization formed by a merger of the International Labor Defense and the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties. The CRC argued before the United Nations..... More

Cambridge, Ma. Harvard Society for Minority Rights, [1956]. Printed broadside handbill, 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Uneven toning, else very nice. A very rare handbill advertising a lecture and "Brotherhood Rally" delivered to the Harvard Society for Minority Rights by Dr. T.R.M. Howard, President of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership..... More

[N.p. ca. 1935]. 16pp. Tall 16mo. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Light oxidization around staples. Light wear and soiling to wraps. Light tanning. A scarce and ephemeral little handbook, published as a guide for the enrollees into Company 755 of the Civilian Conservation Corps, which worked on the McKenzie Bridge over..... More

[N.p.]: 1932. Broadside, 9 x 6.25 inches. Minor wear. Father Divine was the most prominent black religious cult leader of the 1930s, believed to be a divine messenger, the messiah, or God himself by tens of thousands of African-Americans and middle-class whites during the Great Depression. In November 1931, Divine..... More

New York: The Truth Seeker Co., 1894. [4],vii,167pp., including six full-page illustrations. 16mo. Publisher's pictorial wrappers. Wrappers chipped, worn, dust-soiled, and almost completely separated from text block, spine reinforced with clear tape. Internally clean. A rare work on the "aesthetics of suicide" by James Harden-Hickey, a Franco-American author, editor, and..... More

San Francisco: [1968]. Broadsheet on blue paper, 13.5 x 8.5 inches. Slight discoloration along top and bottom edges, minor edge wear, a few soft creases, old horizontal folds. An exceedingly rare broadsheet advertising a multi-faceted public march and rally against the Vietnam War and "racism, poverty and repression," which took..... More

[San Francisco?]: 1978. Three-color poster, approximately 17.5 x 23 inches. Several small perforations at corners where previously posted. Contemporary ink annotations in lower margins. Even toning and light dust soiling in margins. Scarce and attractive poster for "The Longest Walk," a five-month, three-thousand-mile march led by the American Indian Movement..... More