![I Am an American + An America [sic] Negro + What Does America Stand For? For Freedom...[caption...](/images/noimage.png)
Jackson, Ms. 1963. Large scroll-shaped handmade sign on art board, approximately 30 x 20 inches. Some edge wear, pinholes at corners, initialed "EL" at top left and bottom right, and inscribed on verso, "Edward Lee, July 1963, Jackson, Miss." A striking handmade sign created by Edward Lee of Jackson, Mississippi..... More
[Buffalo: 1937]. Photo-illustrated broadside, approximately 12 x 9 inches. Tanned, darker around the edges, with minor creasing. Small manuscript note at bottom, reading "Buffalo, 1937." A striking and seemingly unrecorded broadside advertising a speech by James W. Ford, the "Outstanding Negro Leader - twice Vice Presidential candidate of the Communist..... More
![The NAACP and the Communists [caption title]. African Americana, National Association for the...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2772.JPG?v=1643215769)
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
![Ford Workers Fight Company's Racism [caption title]. African Americana, United Black Brothers](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2774.JPG?v=1643215771)
Mahwah, N.J. [1969]. Handbill, 11 x 8.5 inches. Original folds, light edge wear. A rare handbill issued by the United Black Brothers, a labor union based in Mahwah, New Jersey, reacting against a recent episode in which a manager unfairly and arbitrarily dismissed an African American worker with the racist..... More
Speigner, Al. 1952. Volume 1, Number 6. [6],82,[1]pp. Folio. Original pictorial wrappers, linen spine. Light wear and soiling, contemporary presentation inscription on front cover. Internally clean. Scarce prison periodical published at Draper Prison and representing “the entire inmate body of the Alabama penal system.” The magazine began publication in September..... More
San Francisco: Jos. Winterburn & Co., 1886. 14pp., plus advertisement leaf. Original printed wrappers bound into 20th-century black quarter leather and marbled boards. Erased signature and small inked numeral to front wrapper. A rare California entry in the ongoing 19th-century and early-20th century debate over the prohibition of alcoholic beverages..... More
![Boy-Cott Stag Beer. Stop Before You Buy [caption title]. Civil Rights Movement, African Americana](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2418.JPG?v=1634928519)
[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
![Sunday June 18, in the Year of Our Lord, 1961. Freedom Rally [cover title]. Civil Rights...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3239_01.JPG?v=1652872383)
Los Angeles: Western Christian Leadership Conference, 1961. [16]pp. Quarto. Original pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and rubbing, soft vertical crease throughout. A few passages underlined within text. A rare original program for the June 18, 1961 Freedom Rally led by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., which took place in..... More
[Spokane]: 1938. 96pp. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers three-ring bound into decorative wood boards. Light wear to wrapper edges; wood boards lightly scuffed. Numerous newspaper clippings tipped onto several leaves, inside wrappers, and on title page. Occasional, slightly later manuscript annotations. Light dust soiling and toning internally. A scarce 1938 Civilian..... More
![How about the Other "Fella?" Company 755 CCC [cover title]. Civilian Conservation Corps](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1002.JPG?v=1574705087)
[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
Omaha: Klopp & Bartlett Co., 1903. 44pp. Original red cloth, cover stamped in black. Corners lightly rubbed. Text lightly toned, last few leaves with lower corner rumpled. A series of eighteen diagrams illustrating the ceremonial movements for initiation into the Degree of Honor lodges in Nebraska. The Degree of Honor..... More
Freeland, Md. & York, Pa. School of Living, 1970-1977. Volumes 8:11, 9:2-5, 34:3. Minor wear, toning. A few small edge tears. A small run of this journal published by the School of Living, “an educational organization that explores challenges of living, holds land in trust for present and future generations..... More
Oakland: 1980. Broadsheet, 11 x 8.5 inches. Previously folded and mailed. Light wear. A 1980 "Communal Grapevine" news sheet, with announcements for classes, want ads for housing in the Oakland Utopian community, and fundraising requests. More
![Shadows [cover title]. Prison Magazines, Oregon](/pictures/thumb/McBRB554_01.JPG?v=1562628870)
[Salem]: 1952-1953. Two issues, July 1952 (17:7) & April 1953 (18:4). 32pp. each. Original printed stiff wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and soiling. Two issues of the monthly magazine published by the Oregon State Penitentiary. First issued in 1936, the magazine is “Published monthly by and for the inmates of the..... More
![Sexual Economics and the Utopian Dream [cover title]. Utopias, Eve Furchgott](/pictures/thumb/McBRB378.JPG?v=1551785752)
[San Francisco? 1980? [4]pp., on a bifolium. Previously folded. Light wear and minor soiling. Entertaining pseudoscholarship on the connections between socialism and "polyfidelity," i.e. having multiple loyal partners, in communal living situations. According to the author bio, Furchgott was "a founding member of Kerista Village, an egalitarian, Utopian intentional community..... More