New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1970. Paperback. "A Delta Book." Third Printing. [8], 131 p.; 20 cm. Paperback. Photograph of Eldridge Cleaver by Gerhard E. Gscheidle on the back cover. American writer and political activist Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998) lived in exile from the United States in Cuba, Algeria, and Paris..... More
Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1999. Hardcover. Part of the Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies. xix, [3], 305, [1] p.; 24 cm. Brown cloth with gilt spine title. No dust jacket, as issued. The author examines public events that occured in New York City from..... More
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2008. Paperback. xiv, 312 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. The author asserts that the attacks on the Black residents of East St. Louis, Illinois, on July 2 and 3, 1917, were a pogrom -- "an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group -- orchestrated by certain..... More
New York: Dover Publications, 1972. Paperback. 2 volumes: x, [1], 6-460 p.; xiv, 461-822, [8] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperbacks with illustrated covers. Includes bibliography and index. Publisher's catalog on 6 pages following text in vol. 2. Gift inscription on first (blank) page of each volume covered with blank bookplate..... More
Los Angeles: Pines One Publishing, 1994. Paperback. xxii, [2], 360 p.; 21 cm. Paperback. "Julianne Malveaux is the most provocative, progressive and iconoclastic public intellectual in the country. Her writings not only unsettle prevailing prejudices and undo conventional presuppositions; they also provoke passionate responses -- positive or negative -- precisely..... More
Syracuse, N.Y. Syracuse University Press, 1998. Paperback. xvii, [3], 309, [3] p.; 20 cm. Paperback. Part of the series New York Classics. "Mount Allegro is an extraordinary memoir, a celebration of Sicilian life, an engaging sociological portrait, a moving reminiscence of a fledgling writer's escape from the restrictive culture in..... More
Westport, Conn. Negro Universities Press, 1970. Hardcover. [10], 181, [1] P.; 22 CM. Black cloth with gilt spine title. No dust jacket, as issued. First published in 1957. Reporter John Bartlow Martin analyzed the immediate response by white southerners to Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the 1954 unanimous..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Hardcover. x, [4], 333 p., [16] p. of illustrations: tables; 24 cm. Yellow cloth spine with black spine title; black paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. The author interviewed hundreds of the 1,000+ volunteers, largely white college students from the North, who had travelled..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1979. Paperback. xi, [1], 394 p., [8] p. of illustrations: portraits, maps, tables; 20 cm. Stated First Edition. Paperback. In Very Good+ Condition: cover is lightly soiled; edges rubbed; pages are clean and tight. More
New York: Broadway Music Corp. 1915. Sheet_music. 5, [1] p.: music; 35 cm. Wrapper printed in blue and orange. Sheet music for piano and voice. Wrapper illustration by Andre de Takacs of an older black man playing a ukulele with two Hawaiian women peeking through the bamboo behind him. Publisher's..... More
Philadelphia: Temple University, 1994. ii, 86 leaves; 28 cm. Loose. Includes a detailed account of the rioting that occurred in Newark, N.J., in July 1967 following the arrest and beating of a Black cab driver and the subsequent involvement of the National Guard. In Very Good Condition: rust on title..... More
New York: Guldford Press, 1982. Hardcover. xxiii, [1], 600 p.: tables, figures; 24 cm. Maroon cover with gilt spine title. Dust jacket. Title on dust jacket: Ethnicity & Family Therapy. Part of The Guildford Family Therapy Series. A "groundbreaking work, incorporating within the boundaries of therapy an essential force that..... More
Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus, 2001. Paperback. [2], 64 p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Paperback. Cover title: Black Legislators in Pennsylvania 1911-2001. Compiled by Mattie McKinney and Dana Shaw. Includes photographs of individual members of the Pennsylvania legislature as well as of the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus. Scarce. In Fine..... More
New York: Praeger, 1990. Paperback. 372, [2] p.: maps, tables; 24 cm. Paperback. In Near Fine Condition: one page corner creased; clean and tight. More
Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2005. Hardcover. xi, [1], 363 p.; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Black endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Title page repeats portrait from dust jacket. The Ohio legislature passed the first in a series of discriminatory laws known as Black Laws in..... More
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada: Lethbridge Herald, 1954. Hardcover. Second Impression (The James Muir Edition) July 1954. [4], 178 p.: illustrations, map; 23 cm. Maroon cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Spine title: Indian Chiefs. Cover title: Blackfoot Confederacy: Ancient and Modern. The Kainai Nation, or Blood Tribe, is a First..... More
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011. Hardcover. xxiii, [1], 225 p.: illustrations, map, tables; 24 cm. Black cover with silver spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Nearly 370,000 Black soldiers served in the military during World War One and about 400,000 Black civilians came north for defense jobs. After the..... More
Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. Paperback. xiii, [3], 358 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback. The author "presents a comprehensive treatment of the black church and the southern environment in which it functioned from 1865 to 1900." -- back cover. In Near Fine Condition: edges rubbed; upper..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Hardcover. [12], 192, [4] p.; 21 cm. Off-white cloth with red spine title. Red endpapers. Dust jacket. The author, former editor of Harper's Magazine, visited his hometown Yazoo, Mississippi, in 1969 and 1970. In this book he reported on "Yazoo as a symbol and..... More
Ann Arbor, MI: ProQuest, 2016. Hardcover. xiv, 398 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Black cloth with gilt spine title. Morrow examines the media coverage at the time of 12 days of rioting in York, Pennsylvania, in 1969 and at the 30-year anniversary. The renewed and changed coverage in 1999 led to..... More
Westport, Conn. Praeger, 1991. Paperback. xviii, 173, [1] p.; 24 cm. Paperback. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, no. 144. The author "exposes a multitude of dehumanizing constructions of reality embedded in American scholarly studies of the history of the Afro-American woman." -- back cover. In Near Fine Condition: stamped..... More
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1983. Hardcover. xxi, [1], 355, [5] p.; 24 cm. Dark brown cover with gilt spine title. Dust jacket. Part of the series Blacks in the New World. "At its high point in 1938, the Harlem Communist Party had close to a thousand black members..... More
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1994. Hardcover. 518 p.; 24 cm. Black cloth spine with gilt spine title; grey paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. Contains documents from the files kept by the FBI on James Baldwin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Medgar Evers, Marcus Garvey, Fanny Lou Hamer..... More
New York: Free Press, Simon & Schuster, 1995. Hardcover. x, [2], 525 p.24 cm. Black cloth spine with red spine title; white paper over boards. Red endpaper. Illustrated dust jacket. "With substantial evidence and insightful analysis of both official policy and private conduct, O'Reilly illustrates that the principle of white..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Hardcover. [2], xxi, 246, [2] p.; 22 cm. Black cloth spine with gilt spine title; green paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. The author "shows how capitalism fundamentally influenced the way slavery developed and functioned in the United States." -- dust jacket. Book is..... More