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[Blaxploitation] [Black Panthers] Photo archive press kit for 1977 film Brothers, a fictionalized account of the friendship between Angela Davis and prison inmate George Jackson. Starring Bernie Casey and distributed by Warner Bros. The press kit is kept in the original illustrated 9" x 12" folder; cover contains drawn image.....
STILL, William. The Underground Rail Road. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872. First edition, first printing. Contemporary rebinding with black boards and attractive gold gilt title on spine. 9.25" x 6.5" in. 780 pages. A foundational text on freeing slaves in America written by one of the most active African American.....
"Power to the People" Original Poster, iconic imagery of the Fist raised in protest. Circa early 1970. Large color poster 32 x 25 inches; The black fist, also known as the Black Power fist, is a logo generally associated with Black nationalism, Black pride, solidarity, and socialism. The raised fist.....
Black Panthers Double-sided broadsheet "Opening Salvos from a Black-White Gun". 17 x 22 inches, printed in purple on lavender paper; with the Black panther image on tope. original folds. Berkeley, CA, 1 November 1968. A collaboration between the Black Panthers and the Yippies. One side features dueling manifestos on the.....
(BLACK POWER Original Poster titled " Soul Spirit" , Showing a muscular black man with large wings, he is raising his clenched fist, fighting for freedom against the chains of slavery, The broken chains are still on his wrists. The illustration strongly suggests the struggle for liberty and freedom through.....
DAVIS, Angela. Measuring 28.5" x 39". Black and white portrait of feminist, activist, and Black Panther Angela Davis in the early 1970s. During this period, Angela Davis was arrested and held on trial on the charges of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy. Davis had not been present but was alleged to.....
Very Scarce 4 page handwritten speech prepared for Malcolm X, African American Civil Rights leader of the 1960s, covering the African-American struggle in the United States, the joining of Muslims around the world, and the teachings of Elijah Muhammad. Speech includes 4 consecutive pages, legal size 8x14 inches. Written in.....
[BLACK PANTHERS]. I Am Somebody. poster by artist BRUCE, Herb, Chicago: Gráfica Studios, Charisma Chain Inc., 1970. 24 x 36 in. Original poster. Right side of poster features the famous poem, "I Am Somebody," written in the 1950s by Reverend William Holmes Borders, Sr. (1905-1993), Senior Pastor at Wheat Street.....
[CIVIL RIGHTS]. "Heritage Week / Sprit of '76". American Freedom Train Very Large banner. 1976. This banner measures 35 x 46 1/2. The banner is printed cotton muslin with brass grommets in each corner. There was a Freedom Train in 1947-1949 that became entangled in "Jim Crow" laws in the.....
(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Address of the Irish Unitarian Christian Society to their Brethren in America. Boston, 1846. Duodecimo, 7 pages, approximately 5" x 7.5". Many Unitarians were abolitionists. The Irish Unitarians had sent a message to their American brethren in 1844, urging them to oppose slavery, and received no response.....
BLACK PANTHERS. "Justice Amerikan Style". Vintage Double-sided photocopied flier, Folio size 14 x 8 1/2 inches, illustrated with a photograph of Ericka Huggins raising her fist; Boston: Boston Panther Defense Committee, circa April 1970. The text of the document offers a detailed and lengthy explanation of the New Haven Nine.....
[Black Panther], [Civil Rights] May Day Protest Poster from the Black Panthers New Haven Chapter, one of the most successful Black Panthers branches, featuring the music of Santana. "May 1 Rally, Music, People". Photocopied poster. New Haven, 1 May [1970]. Measures 16 1/4 x 11 inches. A poster for an.....
Archive of five issues of the The Militant. Vol. 32, No. 38, September 1968, Vol. 33 , No. 21., Vol. 33, No. 28, Vol. 35, No. 30, and Vol. 37, No. 44, November 1973. New York: Militant Publishing Association 18" x 11.25" inches. Five well-preserved copies of The Militant, a......
Guevara, Che. La Guerra de Guerrillas. Publisher: Departamento de Instruccion del MINFAR. 1960. First edition. 187 pages, 8" x 5.5." Illustrated wrappers with original staples. This Spanish-language handbook for guerilla warfare by Marxist-Leninist revolutionary Che Guevera, predates all other edition. Che Guevara here analysis the Revolution in Cuba and writes.....
[Civil Rights] It is Against the Law. New York: International Labor Defense; National Negro Congress, 1945. 6" x 9" inches. 8 pages. An important pamphlet during US history while segregation and Jim Crow laws were very much alive, and providing many African Americans valuable information in knowing their rights. The.....
[Black Panther Party] Eldridge Cleaver and Huey P. Newton. On the Constitution / Message to America / Towards a New Constitution. Oakland: Black Panther Party, 1970. Single newsprint tabloid sheet folded. The first page reprints Cleaver's 'On the Constitution'. the inner two pages "Message to America" by the Black Panther.....
[Black Panther Party] Eldridge Cleaver and Huey P. Newton. On the Constitution / Message to America / Towards a New Constitution. Oakland: Black Panther Party, 1970. Single newsprint tabloid sheet folded. The first page reprints Cleaver's 'On the Constitution'. the inner two pages "Message to America" by the Black Panther.....
May 1 Rally, Music, People. 16 1/4 x 11 inches; Original 1970's poster,horizontal fold, minor wear. New Haven, 1 May [1970] A poster for an event at the center of the New Haven May Day protests in 1970. The trial of Bobby Seale, Ericka Huggins and others was underway, and.....
[World-War II] [Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee] They Are Sending Them To Die In The Sahara!. Barsky, Edward K. New York: Emergency Committee to Stop Deportations to the Sahara Desert, 1941. Measuring 10.25" x 8". Single page brown flyer with black borders and bold black text. A scarce World War II flyer.....
The Black Panther. Vol. V, No. 24. San Francisco, 14 December 1970. Between the years of 1968-1972, this Black Panther-affiliated publication sold a hundred thousand copies a week, making it the most widely circulated Black newspaper. 20 pages. 18" x 11.5." This issue includes an op-ed on New York City.....
Archive of three transcriptions of hearings of civil rights issues. All three are first edition. Two of the Hearings are before the Committee on the Judiciary (1959 and 1963) and the third is a Hearing before the Commission on Civil Rights (1966). The first hearing was before Subcommittee No. 5.....
The Black Panther. Vol. V No. 25. San Francisco, 19 December 1970. Between the years of 1968-1972, this Black Panther-affiliated publication sold a hundred thousand copies a week, making it the most widely circulated Black newspaper. 20 pages. 17.5" x 11.5." included in this paper is a piece on "pig.....
Entwicklung Einer Revolutionaren Massenorganisation. Rote Steine Propaganda, BLACK PANTER PARTY - 1970. measures about 8" x 5.75" inches. 78 pages. Scarce first edition pamphlet in orginal yellow wrappers with a prominent Party's black panther emblem on the front cover. This pamphlet printed by German communists features a German transcription of.....
The Black Panther. Vol 4 No. 3. San Francisco, 25 July 1970. This Black Panther-affiliated publication sold a hundred thousand copies a week, making it the most widely circulated Black newspaper between the years of 1968-1972. Illustrated newspaper, 20 pages. About 18" x 11.5." This issue includes coverage of police.....
The Black Panther. Vol. V No. 15. San Francisco, 10 October 1970. Between the years of 1968-1972, this Black Panther-affiliated publication sold a hundred thousand copies a week, making it the most widely circulated Black newspaper. 20 pages. 18" x 11.5." The front page contains a blue-tone photograph of jailed.....