"New York: Congress of Racial Equality, 1958. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial wrappers; 16pp; illus. Faint vertical crease; minor dusting; Very Good. Recounts events in the 1957 Nashville desegregation campaign. The author was chairwoman of the Nashville chapter of CORE. Includes a 1pp foreword by Martin Luther King. Several photographic illustrations (halftones)." -Lorne Bair
This collection contains several pamphlets that address socio-political issues among the Africana communities and focus on a range of topics that have affected the community, such as desegregation, discrimination, poor education, social and political injustice, the concepts of black nationalism and black socialism, Marxism, and the Civil Rights Movement. Notable pamphlet authors include George Bretiman, Kelly Miller, Margaret Price, Carey McWilliams, Tony Bogues, C.L.R. James, George Novack, and Langston Hughes.
A pamphlet (31 pp.) featuring two separate pieces: "The National Question and the Black Liberation Struggle in the United States" by George Breitman and "Malcolm X, Black Nationalism, and Socialism" by George Novack. Both authors focus on explosing the relationship between Black Nationalism and Socialism in the United States and how the two affect the overall political scene, especially after the rise of the Civil Rights Movement due in part to Martin Luther King Jr.'s efforts and his later death.
"Washington: by the Author, 1903. First Edition. Sewn pahmphlet. Octavo (22cm). Mustard wrappers; 14pp. Holes punched for binding at bulked edge, costing a few characters in text; covers foxed and soiled; text clean and unmarked. A complete, Good copy. A particularly early and uncommon Kelly Miller pamphlet, outlining the need for university education for American blacks." -Lorne Bair
"Brief for the Congress of Industrial Organizations as Amicus Curiae in the Supreme Court of the United States. Washington, D.C.: Congress of Industrial Organizations,1954. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 17pp. Reprints for public distribution the CIO's amicus curiae brief in the case of Gebhart vs. Belton, one of the four cases merged into the "Brown v. Board of Education" Supreme Court tiral which resulted in federal desegregation of public schools. The CIO brief notes organized labor's interest in fair and equal education for blacks, and concludes: "...we respectfully suggest to the Court ...cessation of segregaton 'forthwith' rather than by 'gradual adjustment.'" Includes brief introductory statements by Walther Reuther and James B. Carey. An uncommon Brown v. Board of Education item." -Lorne Bair
"Kelly Miller (1863-1939) was the first African American to receive graduate education in Mathematics (Johns Hopkins, 1887-89); he later founded the Department of Sociology at Howard University where he taught until 1934. Though less widely-known today than his more famous contemporaries Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, Miller was arguably the most influential black intellectual of his era and a prolific, articulate, and widely-published advocate for negro education and civil rights, once called by Carter Woodson 'undoubtedly the greatest pamphleteer of the Negro race.'" -Lorne Bair
A Civil Rights-themed periodical, published bimonthly by the Congress of Racial Equality and self-described as "a national organization with affiliated local groups to abolish racial discrimination by direct nonviolent methods."
"New York: League of Struggle for Negro Rights, 1933. First Edition. 24mo. (15cm x 11cm). Staple-bound pamphlet. Original pictorial wrappers; 45pp. Binding puncture to upper left margin; few stray pencil markings to text, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Constitution, by-laws and draft programme of the National Council of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, a Communist front organization chaired by Langston Hughes and including on its roster of offices James W. Ford, Robert Minor, Benjamin Davis, Jr. and William L. Patterson. This was the League's inaugural publication, and much of the authorship is attributable to Hughes." -Lorne Bair
"As a candidate, Bill Clinton slashed into Bush's Haiti policy while stumping for votes. For most of us who work in Haiti, however, it has been difficult to discern the differences in the policies of Bush and his successor. Clinton continued to send the refugees back home. Trade with Haiti increased, in spite of stated support for the embargo. And Clinton named as his envoy to Haiti a an who was considered by many of us to be on the sideof the military and business elite. Representatives of other countries have come to doubt Clinton's sincere support for a return to democracy in Haiiti. In October, 1993, after a small group of thugs prevented the docking of the USS Harlan County and the deployment of a multinational team of military engineers, one French military advisor offered the following assessment: "Do you know what the real problem is? The Americans don't want Aristide back, and they want the rest of us out."" - Paul Farmer, Open Magazine Pamphlet Series
"Washington: Austin Jenkins Publishing Co, 1921. First Edition. Stapable-bound pamphlet. Octavo (21 cm). Gray printed wrappers; 24pp. Holes punched for binding at bulked edge, else Near Fine. Response to Warren G. Harding's historic 1921 speech to a mixed-race audience in Birmingham, Alabama, in which he called for major improvements in political, educational, and economic opportunities for African Americans. Miller praises the speech at the outset but goes on to criticize Harding for his failure to extend social equality to Black as well: "...candor compels me to say, Mr. President ...that your platform based upon the assertion of 'fundamental, inescapable and eternal differences' of race is calculated, in the long run, to do the Negro as great harm as the Taney dictum would have done..." -Lorne Bair
"New York: Pioneer. Publishers, 1952. 31p., wraps, paper evenly toned. Trotskyist perspective on the killing of the Moores, who were active in Florida's NAACP and critical of police brutality until their deaths in a bombing on their 25th wedding anniversary near Sanford, Florida. They have been called the first martyrs of the Civil Rights movement." -Bolerium
A pamphlet that contains three essays (41pp.), which address the idea of socialism and its relationship with the African American Community, especially in light of the injustices that spurned on the rebellions in Liberty City, Miami. It also analyzes the growing oppression felt by the African American Community as the 1980s approaches and what measures have been taken to fight against it.
