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WE ARE OVERCOME: Thoughts on Being Black in America.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Irreverent essays dissecting the current state of affairs between blacks and whites by this black female political/social humorist. ISBN: 0517597594.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 16015More details Price: $12.50 -
MALCOLM X FOR BEGINNERS
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Writers and Readers Publishing, (1992.). First edition - From the preface: "Today when it seems like most of the gains in the area of civil rights are being rolled back one by one, it is more important than ever to rediscover the impact of leaders like Malcolm X on our society. A graphic book written for young adults, illustrated throughout with the author's black and white drawings. ii, 186 pp. ISBN: 0-86316-146-4.
Condition: Very good+ in glossy illustrated wrappers (corners slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 53978More details Price: $13.50 -
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND STROKES FOR FREEDOM: A Series of Anti-Slavery Tracts of Which Half a Million are Now Issued by Friends of the Negro.
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: Negro Universities Press, (1969.) dj. Hardcover - Facsimile reprint of a book originally published in London in 1900 -Consists of reprints of no. 1-82 of the Leeds anti-slavery series, ranging in length from 1 to 20 pages each . Preface. by Wilson Armistead. . ISBN: 0-8371-20144.
Condition: Fine in brown boards with gilt lettering on spine, no dust jacket as issued.
Book ID: 52715More details Price: $35.00 -
THE SECOND BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS: The Hundred-Year Struggle to Integrate the Schools.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A powerful and moving book, about the legal challenges and about the courage of those involved: 6 year old Ruby Bridges and the 3 other black first graders in 1960, their parents, and the parents of the white students who persisted in sending their children to a desegrated school, of federal district judge J. Skelly White, and black Creole attorney A. P. Tureaud and more. Photographs, notes, bibliography and sources, index. 564 pgs.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 11898More details Price: $25.00 -
IT IS SO ORDERED: The Supreme Court Rules on School Segregation.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Norton, (1966.). Covers events from the filing of the original suit on behalf of 13 African American children in Topeka, Kansas to the decision in the 1954 landmark case, Brown v. The Board of Education. Index of juridical terms and general index. 161 pp.
Condition: Good condiiton.
Book ID: 30685More details Price: $8.50 -
NEGRO PROTEST THOUGHT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Edition: First printing.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1965.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Anthology of original source documents compiled from the writings of African-American activists from 1895 through 1965, including Monroe Trotter, Bayard Rustin, W.E.B. DuBois, A. Philip Randolph, Marcus Garvey, Angelo Herndon, Dr. Martin Luther King, Thurgood Marshall, John Lewis, and many others. Information on the founding and aims of the various protest movements: The Niagara Movement, NAACP, CORE, SNCC, SCLC, etc. The first book publication of some of the documents. A title in The American Heritage Series under the general editorship of Leonard W. Levy and Alfred Young. Index. xliii, 444 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a fair only dustjacket. with chips on the top of the spine and the back cover (previous owner's name mostly hidden by dj flap)
Book ID: 84116More details Price: $24.50 -
STAGOLEE SHOT BILLY.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88784More details Price: $24.50 -
THE FLASHLIGHT.
Edition: First thus.
Condition: Very near fine in a blue stapled wrappers with a photograph of Cleaver on the front cover.
Book ID: 75544More details Price: $60.00 -
BLACK RIOT IN LOS ANGELES: The Story of the Watts Tragedy.
Edition: First edition.
Los Angeles: Trans-Anglo Books, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - An attempt to present a balanced look at the Watts Riot, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, that tell the story far more graphically than words can. Includes an Appendix: The text of the McCone Commission report. Maps, bibliography, index. Large format. 160 pp. Map endpapers.
Condition: Good only in a good dust jacket (tear to side of spine, dj has remnants of a spine label, some short closed tears)
Book ID: 66724More details Price: $150.00 -
THE SHADOW OF SLAVERY: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (name on front endpaper)
Book ID: 89359More details Price: $45.00 -
BUT WE HAVE NO COUNTRY: The 1851 Christiana, Pennsylvania Resistance.
Edition: First printing.
Cherry Hill, NJ: Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Examines from an African American perspective "how William Parker and the Christiana Resisters tested the basic tenets of American democracy and law, especially the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law. . . Ultimately the Christiana Resistance was a contest of wills between Parker and his self-defense organization, with natural law on their side, and Edward Grosuch and other white slave owners, armed, literally with civil law." Includes an appendix with William Parker's The Freedman's Story published in the Atlantic Monthly in Feb, 1866. Photographs. Bibliography, index.xiv, 338 pp. ISBN: 0-965330818.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (closed tear on front cover of dj).
Book ID: 67617More details Price: $24.50 -
RECONSTRUCTION AFTER THE CIVIL WAR.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1973.). A title in the Chicago History of American Civilization series - a lucid and scholarly look at this important era in American history, and one which 'reduces the exaggerations of former views to a more credible picture. ' Chronology, bibliography, index. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-226-260763.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 31814More details Price: $9.50 -
RECONSTRUCTION AFTER THE CIVIL WAR.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1967.). A title in the Chicago History of American Civilization series - a lucid and scholarly look at this important era in American history, and one which 'reduces the exaggerations of former views to a more credible picture. ' Chronology, bibliography, index. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-226-260763.
Condition: Good overall (previous owner's name, underlining and marginal notations on several pages).
Book ID: 32987More details Price: $8.50 -
RECONSTRUCTION AFTER THE CIVIL WAR.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1973.). A title in the Chicago History of American Civilization series - a lucid and scholarly look at this important era in American history, and one which 'reduces the exaggerations of former views to a more credible picture. ' Chronology, bibliography, index. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-226-260763.
Condition: Good condition (some wear to the covers, number written inside front cover on on top edge, contents clean.)
Book ID: 48219More details Price: $10.00 -
RUNAWAY SLAVES: Rebels on the Plantation.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (prevous owner's name on front pastedown, mostly hidden by dj flap)
Book ID: 79915More details Price: $30.00 -
RUNAWAY SLAVES: Rebels on the Plantation.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79510More details Price: $50.00 -
THE WORLD THE SLAVEHOLDERS MADE: Two Essays in Interpretation.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In these essays, Genovese compares the New World experience of slavery with that in Europe and Africa, focusing on the place of slavery in the socioeconomic development of the Atlantic community. The second essay is entitled "The Logical Outcome of the Slaveholders' Philosophy" and it focuses on the social thought of George Fitzhugh of Port Royal, Virginia. Notes, index. xii, 274 pp.
Condition: Near fine in brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good dust jacket (short tear to lower edge near spine, other minor edgewear, hint of sunning to spine)
Book ID: 88768More details Price: $28.50 -
THE TEMPLE BOMBING.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. An examination of a chapter in the history of Civil Rights in the US and in Georgia. In the wake of the US Supreme Court's Brown decision outlawing segregated schools, violence erupted in the South. The young rabbi of Atlanta's oldest synagogue spoke up for racial justice, and in October1958, the synagogue was blown apart by dynamite. Winner of the Southern Critics Nonfiction Award. Photographs, notes, index, 502 pages. ISBN: 0-224-040510.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (donation stamp inside front cover, some rubbing to the dj.)
Book ID: 21505More details Price: $28.00 -
PRAYING FOR SHEETROCK.
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
New York: Addison-Wesley, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover - SIGNED on the title page. The author's first book, this is the story of the political awakening of a tiny black community in coastal Georgia in the 1970's. Shortlisted for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. 335 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-201-550482.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 16338More details Price: $20.00 -
REST OF THE DREAM: Black Odyssey of Lyman Johnson.
Edition: First printing.
Lexington,KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1988 dj. Hardcover first edition - Records in his own words the story of Johnson, a Kentucky teacher, and grassroots leader in the civil rights struggle since the 1930's. Photographs, index. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-813116740.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 23182More details Price: $18.00 -
CLAUDETTE COLVIN: Twice Toward Justice.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 84449More details Price: $25.00 -
DESIRE STREET: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75214More details Price: $30.00 -
OLIO.
Edition: 3rd printing, a trade paperback.
Seattle and New York: Wave Books, (2016). SIGNED - Black poet's second book, one which "weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I" from the Jubilee Singers to Blind Tom to Sissieretta Jones, Edmonia Lewis and many others. The citation for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize cited it as "a distinctive work that melds performance art with the deeper art of poetry to explore collective memory and challenge contemporary notions of race and identity." INSCRIBED by Jess on the title page. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. Includes a timeline and bibliography. Large square format. 235 pp. ISBN: 978-1940696201.
Condition: Fine in white wrappers with black lettering.
Book ID: 84839More details Price: $75.00 -
INTERRACIAL INTIMACIES: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption.
Edition: First edition
New York: Pantheon (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A tour de force about the controversial issue of personal interracial intimacy as it exists within ever-changing American social mores and within the rule of law. Fears of transgressive interracial relationships, informed over the centuries by ugly racial biases and fantasies, still linger in American society today. This brilliant studyÑranging from plantation days to the presentÑexplores the historical, sociological, legal, and moral issues that continue to feed and complicate that fear." Extensive notes, bibliography, index. viii, 676 pp. ISBN: 0-375-402551.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder dot, bookseller's stamp on front pastedown)
Book ID: 59806More details Price: $18.50 -
THE DAYS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition -
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 12977More details Price: $28.00 -
JEWS AND BLACKS: Let the Healing Begin.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the historical alliances and difference between the two communities in the hopes that once again they can understand each other and work together. 276 pages. ISBN: 0-399-140468.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 20866More details Price: $18.00 -
THE STORY OF THE JUBILEE SINGERS: With Their Songs
Edition: Revised Edition. Seventy-fifth Thousand.
Condition: Good condition in green cloth with black and gilt illustrations and lettering (fraying to the corners and ends of the spine, hinges cracking.)
Book ID: 88775More details Price: $50.00 -
THE RULE OF RACIALIZATION: Class, Identity, Governance.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Condition: Fine in glossy wrappers, slightly oversized.
Book ID: 79377More details Price: $35.00 -
POLITICAL PROCESS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF BLACK INSURGENCY, 1930-1970.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1985). A classic work of sociology which "focuses on the crucial role of three institutions that foster protest: black churches, black colleges, and Southern chapters of the NAACP. . . the political opportunities, a heightened sense of political efficacy, and the development of these three institutions played a central role in shaping the civil rights movement." Notes, bibliography, index. viii, 304 pp. ISBN: 0-226555526.
Condition: Very good condition overall - some sunning and wear to the spine, previous owner's name, but otherwise clean and tight.
Book ID: 84742More details Price: $16.50 -
BLACKS IN AMERICA: Bibliographical Essays.
Edition: First edition.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which combines bibliography, interpretation and narrative in a topical and chronological framework. Sections include from Afica to the New World, slavery, abolitionism and the anti-slavery movement, the Civil War and Reconstruction, northward migration, the Civil Rights movement and more. Index. xxii, 430p.
Condition: Good in a good dust jacket - some scattered marginal notations, edgewear to the dj.
Book ID: 88782More details Price: $27.50