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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); light blue cloth, titled and blocked in gilt and dark blue on spine; dustjacket; 276pp; illus. Scattered foxing to upper edge of textblock, else Near Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine dustjacket, with a hint of sunning to spine, and some faint foxing on verso. History for children of African American life after the Civil War, authored by the poet, novelist, and member of the Harlem Renaissance Arna Bontemps.
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100 Years of Negro Freedom
by BONTEMPS, Arna
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14th Annual Freedom Fund Dinner Saluting Black Youth, Our Key to the Future
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND BRANCH OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE (NAACP)
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[Rockville, MD: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1989]. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; unpaginated; photographic illus. throughout. A hint of toning to spine edge, else Near Fine. Additional ephemera from the Dinner laid in, including a flyer advertising a workshop on community drug abuse prevention; a staplebound pamphlet "Tribute to Youth: Additional Recognitions of Outstanding Montgomery County Black Youth"; and a staplebound pamphlet "Special Appreciation Extended to Purchasers of Full Tables." Though OCLC notes several such local Freedom Fund Dinner publications, we find none issued for the Montgomery County chapter of the NAACP as of October, 2018.
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The 4th World - Vol.1, Nos.1-2 [Complete Run]
by [WOMEN] [OAKLAND]
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Oakland: Fourth World Publications, 1971. First Edition. Two tabloid issues (44cm); illustrated newsprint wrappers; 8; 20pp; illus. Old folds (as issued), with some mild toning to extremities, else Near Fine. Complete run of this short-lived Bay Area feminist newspaper. Contents include the lengthy two-part "Dialog on Black Women," articles on waitressing, race, self-defense & the liberation of the body, birth control and healthcare, and the Gay Women's West Coast Conference, with poetry by Mari Evans, Andrea Wyatt, Yolanda Lorca, Sonia Maya, Pat Parker, and others. OCLC notes 8 locations holding physical copies.
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The 51% Minority: An Address by Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) Delivered at the Conference on Women's Employment
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [WOMEN] CHISHOLM, Shirley
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Pittsburgh: Know, Inc, [1970]. Slim octavo (21.5cm); pale yellow printed wrappers; [i],7pp. Mild toning to extremities, with contemporary pencil price at upper right corner of front wrapper; Near Fine. Full text of the lecture Chisholm delivered at the Conference on Women's Employment in Chicago, Illinois, on January 24, 1970, an event sponsored by the Chicago chapter of NOW. Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005), a New York City Democratic Congresswoman, was the first major-party Black candidate to run for President of the United States. OCLC notes 6 holdings (UC Davis, UC Irvine, Northwestern, LSU, U.Michigan, BL).
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The Absent Man: The Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chesnutt
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] DUNCAN, Charles
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Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xxii,214,[4]pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket, with some pinpoint wear to extremities. "The first book-length study to explore the impact of Charles Chesnutt's sophisticated, innovative narrative..." (from front flap).
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Absolutely Nothing To Get Alarmed About
by WRIGHT, Charles
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. Quarter maroon cloth over yellow textured boards; dustjacket; maroon top-stain, 215pp. Fine condition. African-American author's third book, covering "poverty, drug addiction, prostitution, venereal disease, murder, bureaucratic indifference, race riots..." (upper jacket flap).
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An Address to the Quarterly, Monthly, and Preparative Meetings and the Members Thereof, Composing the Yearly Meeting of Friends, Held in Philadelphia, By the Committee appointed at the late Yearly Meeting to have charge of the subject of slavery
by [ANNUAL YEARLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS] JACKSON, John
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Philadelphia: John Richards, 1839. First Edition. 12mo (12cm.); unadorned tan wrappers; 12pp. Rear wrapper a bit dust-soiled, faint dampstain at bottom textblock edge, else Very Good or better. Address signed in text "John Jackson," and "Extracted from the Minutes of the Yearly Meeting of Women Friends" by Deborah Fisher Wharton (1795-1888), the Quaker minister and suffragist. DUMOND, p. 55.
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The Adventures of Ebony Jack
by BERNARD, Jack [pseud. Bernard Shawn]; Arthur Lange, illus
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[Phoenix, NY]: Frank E. Richards Publishing Co, [1971]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original pictorial card wrappers; [4], 219pp.; illus. A bit dust-soiled, else Fine. Juvenile novel recounting the experiences of Jacques "Ebony Jack" Duval, a black man from Massachusetts lured to the West in the antebellum years.
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Africa: A Glance at an Amazing Continent
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] [CHILDREN] ZAREEF, Ayanna
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Oakland: Awareness Productions, [n.d. but ca.1980's]. First Edition. Quarto (27.75cm); illustrated wrapers, stapled; [ii],34pp; illus. A few tiny rubbed spots on wrappers, else Fine. Educational coloring book, each page with accompanying text, compiled by 16 year old Ayanna Zareef, a student at the Arts School in Oakland, California. "This project was pursued with the objective of stimulating the young mind with the awareness of a great and amazing continent." Uncommon; not found in OCLC.
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African Forum: A Quarterly Journal of Contemporary Affairs - Vol.3, No.2 and 3 (Fall, 1967 and Winter, 1968)
by DAVIS, John A. (editor)
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New York: The American Society of African Culture, 1967-1968. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); illustrated wrappers; 112pp. Some trivial edgewear and mild toning to extremities; Near Fine. An issue dedicated to the problems of unity in Mediterranean and Tropical Africa, with contributions by Habib Bourguiba, W.A.E. Skurnik, Jean-Claude Froelich, Daniel F. McCall, and Benjamin Rivlin, et al.
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African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Convergence and Conflict [Review Copy]
by FRANKLIN, V.P., Nancy L. Grant, Harold M. Kletnick, and Genna Rae McNeil (editors)
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Columbia & London: University of Missouri Press, 1998. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. Octavo (24cm); black boards, with titles stamped in metallic blue on spine; dustjacket; x,366pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Collection of essays presented by historians, sociologists, and political scientists at the 1993 conference "Black and Jews: An American Historical Perspective" (held at Washington University in St. Louis). Contributors include Murray Friedman, Michael Rogin, Robert A. Hill, Hasia R. Diner, V.P. Franklin, Winston McDowell, and others.
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The African American Experience during World War II
by WYNN, Neil A.
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Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Black paper over boards, in dust jacket; [xx],163,[1]pp; black and white illustrations. Slightly dusty externally, with ex-library stamps to rear endpapers, otherwise fresh and sound: Very Good or better. Jacket lightly rubbed, else Near Fine. #61499.
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Africa's Struggle for Freedom, the USA, and the USSR: A selection of political analyses
by WINSTON, Henry, ed. & intro
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New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1972. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); original red staplebound pictorial wrappers; 96pp.; illus. Fine. Edited by the African-American National Chairman of the CPUSA. Contents includes Gus Hall's paper "U.S. Imperialism in Africa" and W.E.B. DuBois' letter of application to join the CPUSA with Hall's reply.
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Afro-American Philosophies: Selected Readings from Jupiter Hammon to Eugene C. Holmes
by JOHNSTON, Percy E., ed
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Upper Montclair, NJ: Montclair State College Press, 1970. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's white printed staplebound card wrappers; ix,[1],77pp. Extremities toned, tiny chips at spine ends, else Near Fine. Includes chapters on Alain Le Roy Locke, Marcus Garvey, Paul Robeson, Romare Bearden, Stokeley Carmichael, and many others.
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Afro-Americans In New York Life and History - Vol.29, No.2 (July, 2005)
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] [NEW YORK]
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Buffalo: Afro-American Historical Association of the Niagara Frontier, Inc, 2005. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm); printed card wrappers; 96pp. Light wear to extremities, else Near Fine. With contributions by James H. Rigali, John C. Walter, Michael Boston, Ralph Crowder, A.J. Williams-Myers, Melvin Douglass, and Charles Banner Haley.
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Afro-American Women Writers 1746-1933: An Anthology and Critical Guide
by SHOCKLEY, Ann Allen
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Boston: G. K. Hall & Co, 1988. Octavo (24cm). Beige cloth stamped in green, in pictorial dust jacket; xxviii,465,[1]pp. Lightly rubbed, front upper corner bumped, one or two minor smudges to textblock edges: around Near Fine. Jacket gently rubbed, else Very Good or better.
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Aftermath of Invisibility II
by GODFREY, Glenn (ed)
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New Orleans: New Orleans Writers' Conference and the Department of English, Xavier University, 1975. First edition. Octavo (21cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 88pp. Fine, unread condition. Annual anthology of poetry, fiction and drama by New Orleans authors, most affiliated with Xavier University, the only historically Black Catholic university in the United States. Contributors include Hunt Hawkins, Landrum Banks, Don Paul, Felicia Hernandez, others, including a contributions from undergraduate authors.
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Aftermath of Invisibility III
by GODFREY, Glenn (ed)
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New Orleans: New Orleans Writers' Conference and the Department of English, Xavier University, 1976. First edition. Octavo (21cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 88pp. Fine, unread condition. Annual anthology of poetry, fiction and drama by New Orleans authors, most affiliated with Xavier University, the only historically Black Catholic university in the United States. Contributors include Glenn Godfrey, Everette Maddox, Felicia Hernandez, others, including a number of undergraduate authors.
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Aggrey of Africa: a Study in Black & White
by SMITH, Edwin W.
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New York: Richard R. Smith, 1930. Edition and printing not stated. Title page bears date of 1930; copyright page dated 1929. Octavo. Publisher's black cloth boards, with printed paper spine label; xii,[1]-292pp; illus. Small stain to text block fore-edge, else a tight, clean and unmarked copy. Lacking the dustwrapper. Biography of the influential Ghanaian intellectual, missionary, and educational reformer James Enman Kwegyir Aggrey, written shortly after his death in 1927.
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Aime Cesaire [Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature]
by [AIMÉ CÉSAIRE] DAVIS, Gregson
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. First Edition. First impression. Octavo; cloth hardcover, dustjacket; 208pp. Fine, unmarked copy in a barely edge-rubbed dustwrapper.
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