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Washington, D.C: FBI. Wanted Flyer 447, issued December 13, 1968, 3 days following a Federal warrant issued on December 10, 1968, at San Francisco, California, charging Cleaver with unlawful interstate flight to avoid confinement after conviction for assault with intent to commit murder. Photo-printed poster with 4 images, 2 taken in 1966 and 2 in 1968. Signed with facsimile signature of J. Edgar Hoover. Poster was mailed to Postmaster, High Bridge, New Jersey. Folded for mailing. 14 x 10.5 inches. ISBN: 281AIB1049272.

New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co, 1914. 6 pages. The multi-talented Johnson was an early black leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a Consul in Latin America, and the author of a number of books. In his spare time, he wrote songs like this one, in partnership with Will Marion Cook, one of the leading African American composers of his day. ISBN: 281AIB1024330.

New York: Founding Conference for a National Defense Organization, (n.d. but 1973). Single 14 by 8-1/2 inch sheet folded in half to make four pages. A rather late circular in support of Magee. Magee's first trial following the attempted kidnapping of a judge in the Marin County courthouse in 1970 resulted in a hung jury. This publication was issued as his second trial, in which he would be convicted, was just getting underway, in 1973. The publisher was a Communist Party group that started as the Angela Davis Defense Committee (Davis was acquitted in 1972). Uncommon; apparently not in OCLC. ISBN: 281AIB1017752.

Pittsburgh: Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church, 1920s. 33 pages. An uncommon Presbyterian item. Issued without a title page. The only publication information appears on the title page. ISBN: 281AIB1048751.

(Norwalk, CT): The Easton Press / Library of Congress, 1989. A fascimile of the original 1760 edition of the "first slave narrative independanty printed in the North American colonies" -- from the publisher's notes. First published in 1760. ISBN: B000C2Q6QS.

[Berkeley or Oakland]: [Black Panther Party], [1972?]. Flyer, 6-7/8 by 8-1/2 inches. A rally promoting Black Panther Ericka Huggins's candidacy for "political office in Berkeley." In 1972, Huggins was elected, with three other Panthers, to the Berkeley Community Development Council Board of Directors. It is not clear if this leaflet refers to this election or to another planned candidacy. ISBN: 281AIB1017749.

[State University of New York, Brockport?]: (n.p.), [1970]. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Flyer for a speech by the attorney Gerald Lefcourt, then defending the Panther 21, a large group of Black Panthers then being prosecuted for conspiring to bomb New York police precincts (they were acquitted). (Leonard Bernstein gained some notoriety for hosting a fundraiser for the group, an event publicized by Tom Wolfe's long essay, These Radical Chic Evenings. The location of the event is speculative. SUNY Brockport still has "BSG fees," which are mentioned on the flyer. A minor ephemeron from a significant moment in American cultural and political history. ISBN: 281AIB1017617.

William S. & Alfred Martien, 1863. ISBN: B002FP099A.

Detroit Black Writer's Guild, (1998). 112 pages. 8-7/8 by 11-1/4 inches. Poems, stories and profiles of residents of Detroit's lower east side and the vibrant black mecca that thrived there. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photo reproductions. ISBN: 9781888754025.

Milano: All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1966. 35 pages. 3-3/8 by 4-7/8 inches. Early African American proberbs in English with Italian translations. Editor's introduction in Italian. A copy of this book was in the Rosenbach museum in 2006 exhibit Look Again: African American History IS American History. ISBN: B0059VD7U0.

Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Historical Society, 2001. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. 122 leaves printed one side (rectos) only. With a 16-page appendix of illustrations laid in. ISBN: B0050G367I.

W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. ISBN: 9780393239379.

One World, 2019. ISBN: 9780525509288.

One World, 2019. ISBN: 9780525509288.

One World, 2019. ISBN: 9780525509288.

Chicago: Thomas Moore Association, 1964. 76 pages. An issue of the Catholic magazine, with the first appearance of King's article The Sword that Kills, "taken from Dr. King’s forthcoming book, Why We Can't Wait, which will be published in June by Harper & Row.” Other contributions by Daniel Berrigan, Muriel Spark and others. ISBN: 281AIB1049333.

Sausalito, CA: 1969. 8 pages. A reprint from The Black Scholar journal in which Baraka offers seven African terms to define a value system for all black people. Uncommon in this first edition; the work was reprinted by Jihad Productions in 1970. ISBN: B003S9FTJW.

Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971. 282 pages. Facsimile reprint; original published in 1864. The Black Heritage Library Collection. ISBN: 9780836988062.

Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1969. 222 pages. Verse; a facsimile of the 1900 edition. Black Heritage Library Association. ISBN: 9780836986761.