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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 -
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: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (remainder line, light toning to pages, appears unread.)
Book ID: 57399More details Price: $16.50 -
QUICKSAND and PASSING.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 1991. One of the American Women Writers Series. Edited and with an Introduction by Deborah E. McDowell. This is a reprinting of two novels by Nella Larsen, a woman born of a Danish mother and black West Indian father. A writer of the Harlem Renaissance and winner of a Guggenheim in 1930, Nella Larsen died in relative obscurity. Notes, 246 pp. ISBN: 0-8135-11704.
Condition: Good only - some pencil underlining and marginal notations, mostly in the second novel .
Book ID: 65431More details Price: $9.50 -
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
