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A First Step Toward School Integration by Holden, Anna; foreword by Martin Luther King - 1958

by Holden, Anna; foreword by Martin Luther King

A First Step Toward School Integration by Holden, Anna; foreword by Martin Luther King - 1958

A First Step Toward School Integration

by Holden, Anna; foreword by Martin Luther King

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New York: Congress on Racial Equality, 1958. Softcover in very good condition. Cover photograph of a black school girl being accompanied for her safety to Fehr School in Nashville, Tennessee. 15 pages, 8.5 in. tall, 4 b/w photographs. A 5-paragraph foreword by Martin Luther King dated May 1958. This title chronicles the efforts of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to integrate schools in Nashville in the fall of 1957 while facing bitter opposition. Covers show a moderate vertical crease from folding for mailing, otherwise a clean and unworn copy.
  • Bookseller Sandhill Books US (US)
  • Format/Binding Softcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
  • Binding Paperback
  • Publisher Congress of Racial Equality
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1958
  • Keywords nashville; tennessee; core; congress on racial equality; martin luther king; integration; civil rights
Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763
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Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763

by Walsh, Lorena S.

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The University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Hardcover with dust jacket. Used- Fine condition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows light shelf wear. Light bumping on the top edge on the spine of the dust jacket. Very light bumping on the Top and bottom corners (on the inside flap) on the back cover of the dust jacket. No markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Change!

Change!

by Johnson, George, et al. (eds.), Edward Berry, Jon Eckels, Bill Lowe, Booker Emery, Joe Brantley, Huey P. Newton (about), et al

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Oakland, CA: Change!, ca. 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 16pp (stapled self-cover). An exceptionally well-preserved copy of a Civil Rights themed publication from late 1967 (or early 1968), published in association with the Unitarian Universalist Project East Bay in Oakland and Emeryville. Includes a short piece urging readers to "Support the Huey P. Newton Defense Fund" as well as writing by adults and children intended to inform a suburban audience about conditions in the inner city.
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Hambone 19 (Fall 2009) - includes Black Man in the Cosmos by Sun Ra

Hambone 19 (Fall 2009) - includes Black Man in the Cosmos by Sun Ra

by Mackey, Nathaniel (ed.), Sun Ra, Kamau Brathwaite, John Taggart, Will Alexander, Leslie Scalapino, et al

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Santa Cruz, CA: Hambone, 2009. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, [viii]+280pp, printed wrappers. Scarce nineteenth issue of this cultural magazine edited by Nathaniel Mackey. Includes "Black Man in the Cosmos," an annotated 17-page transcription of a spring 1971 lecture by Sun Ra. Unmarked copy (from the collection of contributor Leslie Scalapino), just about as new.
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Signed in Person, with Event Photos)
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Signed in Person, with Event Photos)

by Hannah-Jones, Nikole

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One World, 2021-11-16. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 9x6x1. Signed. SIGNED IN PERSON BY NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES and comes with 2 photos from the event. Signed directly to the half-title print in bold black marker; NOT personalized. A lovely 6th printing in unread near fine condition. Expedited shipping is welcome; signed by author.
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Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series.

Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series.

by LAWRENCE, Jacob.

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9780963612908
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0963612905
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Washington, D. C.: The Rappahannock Press, 1993. First edition / First printing. Beige cloth. Very fine in about fine dust jacket.
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Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763
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Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763

by Walsh, Lorena S.

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The University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Hardcover with dust jacket. Used- Fine condition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows light shelf wear. Light bumping on the top edge on the spine of the dust jacket. Very light bumping on the Top and bottom corners (on the inside flap) on the back cover of the dust jacket. No markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Change!

Change!

by Johnson, George, et al. (eds.), Edward Berry, Jon Eckels, Bill Lowe, Booker Emery, Joe Brantley, Huey P. Newton (about), et al

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Oakland, CA: Change!, ca. 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 16pp (stapled self-cover). An exceptionally well-preserved copy of a Civil Rights themed publication from late 1967 (or early 1968), published in association with the Unitarian Universalist Project East Bay in Oakland and Emeryville. Includes a short piece urging readers to "Support the Huey P. Newton Defense Fund" as well as writing by adults and children intended to inform a suburban audience about conditions in the inner city.
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Hambone 19 (Fall 2009) - includes Black Man in the Cosmos by Sun Ra

Hambone 19 (Fall 2009) - includes Black Man in the Cosmos by Sun Ra

by Mackey, Nathaniel (ed.), Sun Ra, Kamau Brathwaite, John Taggart, Will Alexander, Leslie Scalapino, et al

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Santa Cruz, CA: Hambone, 2009. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, [viii]+280pp, printed wrappers. Scarce nineteenth issue of this cultural magazine edited by Nathaniel Mackey. Includes "Black Man in the Cosmos," an annotated 17-page transcription of a spring 1971 lecture by Sun Ra. Unmarked copy (from the collection of contributor Leslie Scalapino), just about as new.
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Staffrider, Volume 5, Number 1 (1982)

Staffrider, Volume 5, Number 1 (1982)

by Mutloatse, Muthobi, Mike Kirkwood and Kay Hassan (eds.), Njabulo S. Ndebele, Karen Press, Mafika Gwala, Lesley Lawson, Don Mattera, et al

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Braamfontein, South Africa: Ravan Press, 1982. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce 1982 issue of this important multiracial South African literary magazine. Includes work by a vast number of writers. Unmarked copy, clean with minor creasing.
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Signed in Person, with Event Photos)
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (Signed in Person, with Event Photos)

by Hannah-Jones, Nikole

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9780593230572
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0593230574
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One World, 2021-11-16. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 9x6x1. Signed. SIGNED IN PERSON BY NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES and comes with 2 photos from the event. Signed directly to the half-title print in bold black marker; NOT personalized. A lovely 6th printing in unread near fine condition. Expedited shipping is welcome; signed by author.
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The Sky and the Forest
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The Sky and the Forest

by Forester, C.S

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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Malungu, Ngoma vem! África encoberta e descoberta no Brasil (Cadernos do Museu da Escravatura No.1)
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"Malungu, Ngoma vem!" África encoberta e descoberta no Brasil (Cadernos do Museu da Escravatura No.1)

by Robert W. Slenes

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Rare! Luanda: Angola. Ministério da Cultura, 1995. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. Fine. Pages and cover securely held by one clean staple. Interior pristine. Covers clean and crisp, with slight reading wear to foreedge. Many B&W photos/illustrations. 24 pages. Not from a library. Published by the Angolan National Museum of Slavery and National Institute of Cultural Patrimony on the 20th anniversary of Angola's independence.
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Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun
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Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun

by Roark Bradford

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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun ( Being the Tales They Tell about the Time When the Lord Walked the Earth Like a Natural Man)". 264 pages.. Solid. Clean. Flyleaf detached from title page, but all pages still bound. A great collector's item and a rare find. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by A.B. Walker. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fiction.
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The Temple Of My Familiar

The Temple Of My Familiar

by Alice Walker

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Large-Print Edition
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9780896219298
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0896219291
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Alice Walker. THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR. Copyright 1989 by Alice Walker. Thorndyke, Maine. Hardcover, ISBN 9780896219298. Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1990. USED. VG CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. Large print. 595 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 ¾.
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Gone With The Wind
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Gone With The Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

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MARGARET MITCHELL: Gone With The Wind, published December, 1939 by The Macmillan Company. MOTION PICTURE EDITION. First Printing Thus. Paperback. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ issued. Bound in yellow pictorial stiff card wraps. Clark Cable and Vivien Leigh front cover. 391 pages 7 X 9 1/2. Scarce. Includes 12 pages of color prints from the film. Plot summary: "Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara. Starting with her idyllic life on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler."
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Harlem On My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America 1900-1968
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Harlem On My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America 1900-1968

by Schoener, Allon (editor)

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As new except for tiny spot on side exterior page edges and light surface scratching on the back cover. 255 pages. 8.5" X 11" X .5" (22cm X 28cm X 1.3cm) History of Harlem as cultural center. Illustrated with hundreds of black and white photos of people and cultural ephemera like playbills, tickets to the Cotton Club, and advertising banners about the importance of Black Santa. Part of a project with the Metropolitan Museum of Arts. Nonfiction. History. Photography. African American History. Regional History- New York.
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Black Ladies
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Black Ladies

by Uwe Ommer

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9783822886748
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Book cover like new - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
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A photographic portrait of African women.
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Robeson, Labor's Forgotten Champion
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Robeson, Labor's Forgotten Champion

by Charles H. Wright

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United States: Balamp Pub Co, 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Book has one page with a small wrinkle, else clean and tight, jacket has some paper-loss on the backcover, else clean. Jacket is not price-clipped.
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Dick Gregory's Bible Tales, with Commentary

Dick Gregory's Bible Tales, with Commentary

by Richard "Dick" Claxton Gregory (1932-2017)

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081281682X
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187 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine over yellow boards and faux signature to cover in original pictorial jacket. Edited by James R McGraw. First edition. Richard "Dick" Gregory was an American civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, comedian, motivational speaker, author and actor. He became the first black comedian to successfully cross over to white audiences. Condition: Lightly soiled. Jacket corners and spine ends chipped else better than very good in like jacket.
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The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X

The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X

by T'Shaka, Oba

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T'Shaka, Oba. The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X. Third World Press, Chicago. Stated First Edition, First Printing Thus, 1983. Softcover. ISBN0883781107. BIOGRAPHY, BLACK STUDIES, AMERICAN HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY, POLITICAL SCIENCE. A nice copy. Used. VG Condition. 293 pages, indexed. 5 3/8 X 8 1/2.
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