Langston Hughes. Signed contract authorizing use of Hughes' autobiography I Wonder As I Wander. New York, 1957. Measures 14" x 8.5". 2 pages. Contract between Hughes and Jacobo Huchnik for the publication and distribution of the book's Spanish-language translation. I Wonder As I Wander was published in 1934, twenty three.....
Archive of 8 silver gelatin press photos showing migrant workers in America. 1950-1967. Photos measure roughly 8 x 10 inches. Images show men, women and children, at home in small, one-room shanties and at work in fields. Most of the workers shown are Latino. In one image taken in 1950.....
Signed Spanish colonial free slave work contract. "Contrato Esclavo liberto." Arecibo, Puerto Rico. April 1873. Measures 12 x 8 inches. The 1873 Abolition Act ending slavery in Puerto Rico stipulated slaves apprentice under their former masters for another 3 years in exchange for food and small compensation. "In the very.....
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......
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.....
Archive of seven original press photos from 1966-86 of Cesar Chavez and the UFW advocating for farm workers. Photos range from 9" x 6.5" to 11" x 8" inches. Black and white silver gelatin print photographs. The earliest photo from 1966 depicts Chavez leading a march in a sunny field.....
Archive of 5 original silver gelatin photographs of migrant workers in locations around the Southwest such as California's Central and Coachella Valley and Las Vegas. These Press Photos range from 9" x 7" to 11" x 6" inches. The photos date from 1958-65. The first photo in the lot depicts.....
MATTHIESSEN, Peter. Sal Si Puedes: Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution. First edition. Signed. Not priceclipped. A nonfiction account of Cesar Chavez and the struggles of the United Farm Workers to form a migrant workers' union to end the dramatic exploitation of temporary farm labor prevalent in the 1960s-70s.....
Loose Woman, Poems, Sandra Cisneros. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Uncorrected proof signed by the author. The collection is a reflection on female love and sexuality through the lens of Cisneros' distinctly Chicana style. Her work is poetic social commentary on misogyny, assimilation culture and gender identity in American.....
[Hispanic Immigrants] pamphlet titled "Phases by Tigre", 1971 with poetry on the migrant laborer and Chicano Mexican identity. Tigre [aka Raymundo Perez] introduction by Magadaleno Avila ("Tigre y mas") and cover art by L. R. Teran the author, 1971. Revolutionary Tejano poet.30 pages of poetry in English with a few.....
United Farm Workers/AFL-CIO, 1971. First edition, first printing. Scarce; no copies found on OCLC Worldcat in any institution worldwide. 2 sheets, printed on both sides. 8.25 x 11 inches. A chronological history of the United Farm Workers strike and boycott, beginning July 23, 1970 and ending December 29, 1972, when.....
The Movement was one of the premier Left wing Protest publications. The Movement. Vol. 5, No. 6. Large folio format : 17" x 11.5" inches. 24 pages This July 1969's issue focuses of radical Latino formations such as the Chicano Youth Liberation Conference, an interview with Cha Cha Jimenez of.....
An original underground newspaper "Open City" covering the 1968 Chicano high school walkouts. Los Angeles: March 8-14, 1968. Issue no. 45. 16 pages. 17" x 11.5" inches. First edition, first printing. 4000 students at Garfield High (March 4) and 1000 students at Wilson High (March 1) walked out in the.....
Women political activists outside Mexican Congress. July 8, 1938. Black and white silver gelatin press photo. 7 x 9 in. Depicts a group of women representing Mexico's Feminine Political Organizations as they rallied at the Mexican Congress in hopes of attaining voting rights. Press caption taped to back: “On threshold.....
Mexican women vote in Presidential election for first time. July 6, 1958. Black and white press photo. Mexico City. 10 x 8 in. Wire caption printed on lower portion of photo. “In their first chance to vote for a president, women dominate in some lines waiting to caste their ballots.....