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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 -
HIS WAS THE VOICE: The Life of W E B DuBois.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crowell-Collier Press, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography of this influential historian, educator and author written for young adults by this award-winning writer. Based in part on his private, unpublished papers, this tells the dramatic story of a revolutionary life - a man ahead of his time in his dedication to the ideas of "Freedom Now" and "Black Power", controversial co-founder of the NAACP, a target of the McCarthy witch hunts of the 50s, who died in exile in China. Foreword by Ronald Stevenson. Frontispiece portrait, photographs, bibliography and index. xv, 232 pp. ISBN: 0-027881407.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 91655More details Price: $30.00 -
W.E.B. DUBOIS
Edition: First printing.
New York: Franklin Watts, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography for older children and young adults of this lifelong activist for equal rights by these award winning writers. "DuBois, conducted a lifelong crusade to insure that every person, regardless of race, had all the rights, privileges, and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. The McKissacks reveal his frustration with the divisiveness within the movement and among its leaders, causing him to embrace the socialist movement and eventually to become a member of the Communist party. His self-exile to Ghana and becoming a citizen of that nation is briefly mentioned." Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. A title in the Impact Biographies Series. Appendix of the writings of DuBois, source notes, bibliography, index. 143 pp. ISBN: 0-531109399.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine unmarked dj.
Book ID: 85973More details Price: $20.00 -
WATCH ME FLY: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book - an autobiography of a remarkable life - by the widow of the slain Civil Rights worker Medgar Evers. Photographs, index. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-316255203.
Condition: Near fine in a very near fine dustjacket. (remainder line, light toning to pages)
Book ID: 57399More details Price: $18.50 -
THE AMERICAN NEGRO REVOLUTION: From Nonviolence to Black Power 1963-1967.
Edition: First printing.
Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive account of those critical years in the civil rghts movement. Index. 345 pages.
Condition: Ex-school-library, but a very tight clean copy with relatively few markings in a good dustjacket (chip on front cover, fading to the spine.)
Book ID: 16014More details Price: $20.00