[Lot of Assorted Ephemera From the 1970 National Urban League Conference]
Interesting collection of documents from the 60th annual conference of the National Urban League, an African-American civil rights organization.
Interesting collection of documents from the 60th annual conference of the National Urban League, an African-American civil rights organization.
Monthly newspaper of the United Front / Collective of Black Students at Temple University, with poetry and short literary pieces alongside campus and world news.
A pair of real photo postcards capturing the locale and immediate aftermath of the November 11, 1909 lynching of William James and Henry Salzner at the hands of a mob in Cairo, Illinois, a small city on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illinois.
Handsomely printed broadside from this African-American press, operated by Dudley Randall in Detroit beginning in the mid-60s and throughout the 1970s.
In this issue: Amiri Baraka, Frank Chin, Thulani Davis, J.J
Second issue, featuring an interview with William Melvin Kelley by Reed and Quincy Troupe; Frank Chin on Amy Tan, David Hwang, and Maxine Hong Kingston; Cecil Brown on Driving Miss Daisy; poetry by Patricia Jones, E.
Handsomely printed broadside from this African-American press, operated by Dudley Randall in Detroit beginning in the mid-60s and throughout the 1970s.
Anthology of 18 writers selected from contributors to the Watts Writers' Workshop, including Harry Dolan, Leumas Sirrah, Harley Mims, and James Thomas Jackson. Edited by Schulberg, screenwriter and founder of the Workshop.
Six cabinet cards of African-American subjects at the turn of the century, photographed at various Washington, D.C. studios, including one card from the Scurlock Studio, undated but most likely from the early 1900s.
Broadside from this African-American press operated by Dudley Randall. A single poem by Coleman, from an edition of 500 copies.
20th anniversary issue of the monthly magazine of the Southern Regional Council.
An original GPO, committee print of this publication providing recipients of funds in each of the 50 U.S
Scholarly periodical devoted to criticism and pedagogical articles on Black American literature.
Inscribed first edition of this autobiography by the pastor of San Francisco's Glide Church, community leader and political activist, host to Angela Davis and the Black Panthers and onetime negotiator for Patty Hearst's release from the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Wright's influential memoir of his early years, a frequent target for censorship and subject of controversy. Introductory note by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (president of the Book of the Month Club, for which BLACK BOY was selected.)
Collects thirty-five poems by this African-American author.