London: Camera Press, 1969. Black-and-white photograph on glossy paper, 6.5 x 4.75 inches. Minor wear. Production ink stamps and printed descriptive label on verso. Small crease to upper left corner. Near fine. A striking press photo of Shirley Chisholm, described on the printed label here as "Democrat; Representative from the.....

Pittsburgh: Committee to Defend the Pittsburgh Five, 1953. 24pp. Original pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Minor toning and handling wear. Very good. A scarce pamphlet pertaining to the controversial legal battle pertaining to one of the Pittsburgh defendants in a notable Smith Act case. Careathers, a longtime Communist activist, was accused by.....

New York: The Alliance Publishing Co., 1900. 40pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Some discoloration along front wrapper, minor dust-soiling to wrappers. Thin dampstain along outer margin of first few leaves, otherwise internally clean. A rare report compiled by noted African-American educator, author, and businessman George Allen Mebane of North Carolina.....

Paris: 1922. x,84,[2]pp. Original grey printed wrappers. Minor toning, partially unopened. An early work by noted theologian and Civil Rights activist, William Stuart Nelson. Nelson (1895-1977) was a native of Kentucky who served in World War I. He would go on to work as an university president, teaching at Howard.....

[New York: ca. 1940]. 32pp. Original dark gray wrappers stamped in blue. Very minor toning. A very rare autobiographical pamphlet in which Billy Roberts, an African American minister, recounts his life of addiction, alcoholism, and crime and his redemption in 1932 when he opens his "heart's door" to Jesus Christ.....

New York: Youth Committee for Peace and Democracy in the Middle East, 1970. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Minor discoloration to inner two pages, otherwise very nice. A very rare, if not unrecorded, offprint of an interesting article by notable African-American social activist Bayard Rustin, focused on support for.....

[N.p., probably San Francisco: 1962]. 20pp. of mimeographed text, on variously-sized and variously-colored paper stocks, paper-clipped. Minor overall wear. A long and detailed compilation of notes compiled by the Northern California Negro Commission, apparently overseen by the Communist Party of California between April and July 1962. The notes begin with.....

Washington DC: 1963. Handbill, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Even toning. A rare handbill or small broadside advertising an important Civil Rights demonstration organized and co-sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), with.....

New York: [1961]. Broadside, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Remnants of old tape at top and bottom edges, minor soiling and wear. Handbill advertising a "bus brigade" to Washington for the opening of Congress in 1961 in support of Congressman Adam Clayton Powell. Powell would be seated as chairman of the.....

[Philadelphia: 1966]. 16pp. Quarto. Original wrappers printed in red and black, stapled. Minor wear and edge discoloration. A rare program for the 1966 Northeast Regional Conference of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), held at the Adelphia Hotel in Philadelphia, or perhaps a pre-conference advertising piece, as the text does.....

[Columbia, S.C. 1955]. 12pp. Original gray wrappers printed in black, stapled. Light wear overall. The second interim report from the South Carolina School Committee, comprised of five Senators, five Representatives, and five laymen, sent to the governor and the General Assembly, apprising them of "our findings and recommendations pending final.....

[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.....

[Washington, D.C. 1959]. [19]pp., mimeographed on rectos only. Original printed blue wrappers, brad bound. Covers stained and worn. Mild uneven toning to a few leaves. A seemingly unrecorded directory for the Howard University School of Law, published by the Student Bar Association in 1959. This humble, handmade directory includes a......