" We want jobs"; a history of affirmative action.

Weiss, Robert J

New York: Garland Publishing, 1997 xv, 292p. (Studies in African American history and culture)

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" What happen"; a folk-history of Costa Rica's Talamanca Coast.

Palmer, Paula

San José, CR: Publications in English, 1993 264p., illus. with photos, second edition (revised and expanded), wraps. On Costa Rica's Afro-Caribbean society .

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"AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE ASSOCIATION PRESENTS ALEX HALEY, FIRST ANNUAL FOUNDER'S BANQUET" (cover title)

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Detroit, May 8, 1977. Illus, 9 x 6", pict stapled wraps, minor cover wear & soil else vg. SIGNED ON BACK COVER BY COLEMAN YOUNG, DETROIT'S FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAYOR. Also SIGNED INSIDE FRONT COVER BY ROSA PARKS. Also included are two original photos: one of Alex Haley & Rosa Parks embracing, and one of Coleman Young giving an autograph (this program?). Illus of children's art & poetry.

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"Huey Speaks from Jail - Guns and History." In "San Francisco Express Times"

NEWTON, Huey P

Vol. I, No. 8 (March 14, 1968) .

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"Poetry, History and Humanism: An Interview with Margaret Walker." In "Black World"

WALKER, Margaret

Conducted by Charles H. Rowell. Vol. XXV, No. 2 (December, 1975) .

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"The Soviet Union's Consistent Peace Policy: Lessons from History"

PERRY, Pettis

In "Political Affairs". Vol. XXX, No. 11 (November, 1951) .

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'SHUT THOSE THICK LIPS!' A STUDY OF SLUM SCHOOL FAILURE.

Rosenfeld, Gerry.

Prospect Heights, IL:: Waveland Press, 1971. Underlined in pencil throughout. Otherwise pages clean & tight. Skim this one quickly! 120 pp includes bibliographical references. Used sticker on base of spine; price blacked out on first page with marker. Very good. 8th printing.

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...HAROLD ARLEN'S BLUES OPERA...AN AMERICAN MUSIC-DRAMA BASED ON A PLAY BY ARNE[sic] BONTEMPS AND COUNTEE CULLEN. New York: Amer

Arlen, Harold, and Johnny Mercer:

New York. [ca. 1959]., First item: [4],44,14,[1],38,16,15 leaves, plus three laid in leaves; second item: [1],5,[3],54,14,[1],34,27 leaves, plus five laid in leaves. Both paginated in Act/scene format. First item: Quarto. Carbon typescript, on rose stock, typed on rectos only. Bradbound in stiff binder, with pasted-on on label. Some modest use to binder, with old tide mark around edges (last few leaves slightly damp rippled at lower edge, but largely unaffected). Second item: Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only, of white and blue stock. Claspbound in generic plain binder. Numbered script "46" on title, and with ownership inscription in same hand of "Stanley Rose." Wrapper slightly darkened at edges, some relevant notes and annotations on laid in leaves, but very good. Two significantly different scripts attending Harold Arlen's reconception and revision of his 1946 musical, ST. LOUIS WOMAN, based on Arna Bontemps's and Countee Cullen's dramatization of Bontemps's novel. The laid in sheets include prop lists, music indices and notes. The 1946 musical, St. LOUIS WOMAN, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, was the subject of some controversy in its time, but nonetheless enjoyed a successful, but short, run on Broadway. In his 1990 web article, "America's Great Unknown Songwriter Harold Arlen," Frank Ferriano provides a summary of the history of this project. In 1953, after the early success of the international tour of PORGY AND BESS, Robert Breen suggested that Arlen write a "Blues Opera," that he would direct. There were many delays due to Arlen's poor health and the permissions complications arising from use of material from ST. LOUIS WOMAN. In August 1957, a 25 minute long "Blues Opera Suite" was premiered and recorded by Andre Kostelanetz. After substantial revisions, a change of producers, and reorchestration by Quincey Jones, FREE AND EASY opened with performances in Brussels, Amsterdam and Sweden in late 1959 and early 1960. The official premiere took place in Paris on 15 January 1960, to positive reviews, but attendance did not sustain a long run, and the production closed in February. OCLC records no published form of either of these scripts, but recordings of performances of both are available.

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100 amazing facts about the Negro; with complete proof, a short cut to the world history of the Negro as well as additional inf

Rogers, J. A

St. Petersburg: Helga M. Rogers, 1995 72p., illus., shelf worn wraps, minor handling wear. One of the later editions.

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100 amazing facts about the Negro; with complete proof, a short cut to the world history of the Negro.

Rogers, Joel A

New York: Helga M. Rogers, 1970 58p., prior owner's bookplate, later edition, wraps.

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100 Years after Emancipation: (History of the Philadelphia Negro 1787 to 1963)

SAUNDERS, John A

No place: Self-published, 1966, Illus. with photos. 8vo. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt. 225 p .

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100 Years after Emancipation: (History of the Philadelphia Negro 1787 to 1963)

SAUNDERS, John A

No place: Self-published, 1966, Illus. with photos. 8vo. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt. 225 p . About fine in moderately worn d.w.

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100 YEARS OF NEGRO FREEDOM [ILLUSTRATED].

Bontemps, Arna.

Dodd Mead, 1961. 276 page hardcover with dustjacket, near fine ex-library. Ex-library hardcover with typical pastings and markings, front free endpaper corner-clipped where library has removed its barcod. Apparent First Edition.

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1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History

Stewart, Jeffrey C.; Doubleday

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1996 Name & date on FFE, light edgewear. DJ is lightly rubbed but still bright.

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12 million black voices; a folk history of the Negro in the United States. Photo-direction by Edwin Rosskam.

Wright, Richard

New York: The Viking Press, 1946 152p., profusely illus. with FSA photographs (credits to Lange, Shahn, Evans and others), first edition openweave buckram boards in a badly worn dj. Pastedowns somewhat browned, endsheets also to a lesser degree, else internally and externally very good all round. Jacket is flaking along edges and foldlines and is completely split at the spine, partial splitting along flap folds, spine panel has a 2-inch chip at the head and a smaller one at the tail (graphics intact but Rosskam's name is slightly affected), red spine titling a bit faded. Cover panel is faintly rubberstamped 'Workers Library edition.".

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1966 Negro history week pamphlet.

Association for the Study of Negro Life and History

Washington: the Association, 1966 ii, 44p., 8.5x11 inches, very good in wraps. With articles by Benjamin Quarles and Charles H. Wesley, two articles on the spirituals, and brief biographies of important figures.

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20 years on the MOVE.

(No Author Listed)

Philadelphia: MOVE, 1996 72p. including photos, wraps. On MOVE's history and confrontations with the Philadelphia police, with updated material on Mumia Abu-Jamal's case.

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20 years on the MOVE.

(No Author Listed)

Philadelphia: MOVE, [1992] 59p. including photos, worn wraps. On MOVE's history and confrontations with the Philadelphia police.

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351st Field Artillery, AEF 1918, reunion, August 20, 21, 22, 1942.

(No Author Listed)

Pittsburgh: the 351st F. A., 1942 28p., illus., 6x9 inches, silver and blue wraps with drawing of a black soldier. The reunion program includes a list of the 351st members who did the work for the event. lists of patrons and boosters, two pages of photos, and a 13p. history of the 351st

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4 Guys and Trouble

Major, Marcus

New York, New York, U.S.A.: E P Dutton, 2001 Remainder mark to bottom edge, else tight and clean. Dj shows minor sticker residue.

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