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1923H6749Dayton OH: Paine Publishing Co 1923. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps 67 pp very good light wear. Story centers on the Merkle family and her two daughters one of whom is ambitious one of whom is not and the complications that ensue from this. Included in the cast are Rastus Johnsing 'An Honest Coon' and his wife Dinah Johnsing a servant. OCLC locates three copies in institutions. Paine Publishing Co paperback
196631813London: Leslie Frewin 1966. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 21.5cm; black paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 240pp; illus. Lower corners gently tapped though still sharp else Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped with light wear to extremities tiny tears along lower edge some some mild bubbling beneath the laminate. Account of the October 1964 election in Smethwick UK by Griffiths who won the seat as Smethwick MP in the 1964 general election against Labour Party candidate Patrick Gordon Walker. Smethwick's deep divisions racial and anti-immigrant issues drew comparisons to Little Rock and Selma at the time. Leslie Frewin unknown
193863447Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1938. Sml. 4to. 16 pp. Colour-illusts throughout. Tan publisher’s cloth black illustration & lettering front cover minor edgewear ex-lib markings on endpapers w/ d.j. cover art by Inez Hogan minor chipping head & foot of spine minor tears to corners some scuffing still VG/G copy. Early printing of this curious and subtly racist children’s story written in an affected southern Black dialect about a young African-American boy who always did the wrong thing. Although once considered standard reading in many secondary schools this book is now quietly considered fairly offensive and reinforcing of Black stereotypes. See: David Pilgrim Understanding the Book Epaminondas and His Auntie Jim Crow Museum Jan. 2009. Houghton Mifflin Co., hardcover
197464110London: Secker and Warburg 1974. First Edition. First impression. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xii196pp; illus. Neat ownership stamp to front free endpaper and title page else tight clean and unmarked. In the original dustwrapper price-clipped else Fine. <br /> <br /> The Jamaican anthropologist's final published work a pioneering study of attitudes towards race-mixing in the West Indies Latin America and the United States. Henriques 1916-1976 was a major theorist of class color and sexuality best-known for his massive three-volume survey Prostitution and Society 1962-68. He was Director of the Centre for Multi Racial Studies from 1964 to 1974. Secker and Warburg unknown
1976511728Storrs Connecticut: Committee Against Racism 1976. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 24pp. Stapled white printed wrappers. Covers are lightly dust soiled a very good copy. From the text: "For the past decade there has been an upsurge of racist propaganda. and its message has been clear: that minorities and the poor in general could justifiably be written off. The consequences are here and one of them is the current attack on public education Committee Against Racism) unknown
1942206856Los Angeles: Religious Forum of Maywood 1942. Light fading around edges. Broadside 8 1/2 x 11 in. printed on one side of white paper. Broadside leaflet from Chairman David Grant of the Religious Forum calling for religious Christian citizens of Maywood to stand against the Axis Powers and denouncing racial discrimination at home. Religious Forum of Maywood unknown
1952441New York: Civil Rights Congress 1952. 4th Edition Mar. 1952. 8vo. 5.5"x8.25" in black and white wraps with black and red titles. Frontispiece photograph depicting a lynching. Very Good. Light rubbing to wraps small stain to lower left hand of cover as shown. Petition to the United Nations arguing that the treatment of African Americans including lynching and systematic discrimination fit within the UN's definition of genocide. Civil Rights Congress unknown
1903000011985St. Paul Minn: Pioneer Press Co 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 3 ii-iv 3 6-201 3 pp. Green publisher's cloth with the front board decorated with gilt lettering black green brown and blue decorations gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author. The author's travel narrative covers the far north of the United States all the way to the southern region of the country. Armstrong includes a passage on attending a Black church in the North Carolina mountains and a thorough description of the service and hymns. He provides a quote from the Black deacon which gives a great deal of statistics on Black achievement education employment the number of libraries and schools in the country's Black communities. The next passage discusses southern law courts and includes a case against White supremacists who intimidated voters at polling places. There is offensive language in this passage but it demonstrates the brutal reality and hateful attitudes of racism in the south at this time. A visually attractive publisher's binding which paints a portrait of the segregated United States in the early twentieth century. One leaf with a dog-ear and a touch of rubbing to the corners of the cloth. Pioneer Press Co hardcover
1965003265<p>Isle of Man: Britons - Times Longman 1965. Good original wraps with the Britons Publishing Company label pasted over original publisher VERY SCARCE Attacks Jews as being in control of Bolshevism etc. First Edition. Original Wraps. Good.</p> Britons - Times Longman paperback
197580686Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc 1975. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.5cm; red paper-covered boards and navy blue cloth backstrip with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; viii1831pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper to author and Georgia Democrat Robert M. Willingham: "Best wishes to Robert M. Willingham - Lester Maddox." Light wear to crown faint foxing to upper edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $6.95 gently spine-sunned showing modest shelfwear some dustiness and a few tiny nicks and tears; Very Good. Memoir by the racist former governor of Georgia 1967-71 a staunch segregationist who famously said he would rather close his family restaurants rather than serve African American customers - even after the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Doubleday & Company, Inc unknown
19331821<p>15 cm. 4ii vii11-621-36331-1653xii2pp. Most pages double-column with either side-by-side or facing English and Chinese text. Brown cloth stamped in gilt and white. Shelfworn with white almost entirely missing from spine characters; small stain to rear board.</p><p>An English conversation guide for Chinese speakers that covers the subject in three separately paginated parts -- Vocabulary Dialogues and Useful Sentences -- plus an Appendix. Numerous examples are provided throughout although often of such a specific nature that it is hard to imagine such a conversation taking place e.g. when the reader is provided with dialogue about the benefits of swimming in sea water versus river water or how to report to the police being robbed by four men with guns one of whom has a "double thumb" .</p><p>Interestingly all of the examples appear to take place in China and at times offer a sharp cultural critique of English-speaking foreigners. This is particularly true in a section in Dialogues on "Protests" in which a sample Chinese person defends himself against rudeness and racist comments by foreigners in different situations such as being mistreated by a clerk in a store when being involved in a traffic accident that was the foreigner's fault and on a tram car "The occasions of provocation are numerous and only a few are referred to here". An Editor's Note follows this section noting that while "it does a man good to get a genuine complaint out of his chest rather than to harbour it there" readers should always take the moral high ground: "the spirit underlying the protest should never be one of racial prejudice. A protest should be made with the best of intentions for the sake of the benefit of the offender as well as the scandalised onlookers. The protester should not fall into a passion for after all to err is human" p. 140-41.</p><p>Surprisingly not found in OCLC.</p> The World Book Co., Ltd. hardcover
191563112New York: Grosset & Dunlap ca. 1915. 8vo. 8 374 pp. Photo frontisp. 7 photo illust. Red cloth white lettering minor shelfwear faint tidemark wicked into fore-edges of plates at the very fore-edge w/ d.j. cover art with KKK rider on horseback next to heroine minor chipping head & foot of spine minor closed tears edgewear still G/VG- copy. First Photoplay edition of the notorious movie starring Lilian Gish Henry B. Walthall Mae Marsh Miriam Cooper Ralph Lewis George Siemann and others which steeped in the Confederacy’s Lost Cause mythos which had heavily influenced the misguided Dunning School’s interpretation of Reconstruction and significantly influenced Dixon and Woodrow Wilson. Directed by D.W. Griffith the movie was very successful but the racist overtones and blatant support of the Ku Klux Klan triggered widespread protests and it was banned in several cities. Very much like 21st-Century media Birth of a Nation’s portrayal of African-Americans created a justification for prejudice and discrimination which undermined Civil Rights for decades and reactivated the largely quiescent Ku Klux Klan movement and was the first film ever screened at the White House for President Wilson. See: Petaja Photoplay Edition p. 53; The Influence of “The Birth of a Nation†Facing History & Ourselves March 14 2016. Grosset & Dunlap, hardcover
191526775New York 1915. Irish propaganda targeting the British during W.W.I. from the Irish World of January 30 1915. During W.W.I the struggle for Irish independence was suspended with the Nationalist forces splitting over support of the war. This handbill appears to be an effort to incite hatred of the British with racist descriptions of Fijian soldiers "the cannibals we may say" who fought for the British. There is a clear preference for Germany - "And these are the savages the cannibals we may say whom Britain is bringing over to fight the most enlightened nation of Melancthon and SchlegeL of Kant. of Mozart and Beethoven and Wagner of Goethe and Heine." <br /> <br /> The text characterized the Fijians as cannibals "dark copper colored have black eyes and bushy hair worn in the form of a mop" short stature protruding stomachs legs bowed and feet flat and usually nude. The photograph shows the Fijian soldiers standing at attention behind a British Officer photo by Paul Thompson. <br /> <br /> The text of the handbill is extracted from The Irish World and American Industrial Liberator published in New York between 1878-1951. Hand bill 9 x 7 3/4" printed in blue on cream paper verso blank. Creased with marginal tears and small margin loss. <br /> <br /> Unrecorded on OCLC although there is a W.W.I poster with the title "Civilization Vs. Barbarism" 1914 but associated with Red Cross Week. OCLC: 894257435. unknown
193661085Washington D.C.: Associates in Negro Folk Education 1936. 8vo. 6 98 pp. Decorated tan softcovers Art Deco designs on front cover lettering in black gilt & red minor scuffing lower fore-edge front cover still a VG copy. First edition of this 4th installment in the storied “Bronze Booklet†series which quickly became a standard reference for teaching African-American history in the United States and Europe and addressed a number of racial conflicts and issues surrounding the impact of race on political and economic history. This important groundbreaking work by Bunche not only represented his most extended analysis of the issues of racism but also the role of race and racism in World economic and political conflicts Imperialism and inherent racism as well as the fact that race “has been used to whitewash some of the blackest pages in American history.†Bunche 1904-1971 was a leading African-American intellectual diplomat supporter of the US Civil Rights movement and would later be awarded the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize the first African=American so honored. Associates in Negro Folk Education, paperback
190122331<p><b>RACISM. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.</b>Drawing. 1p 5 x 6¼ in. </p><b>Transcript</b><p><i>"To hear how Roosevelt is carrying on I would like to give him a swift kick & see him full of holes I wish the nation would make Alice marry Booker T Washington don't you"</i></p><p>Followed by drawing of Alice Roosevelt marrying Booker T. Washington.</p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>In 1901 Roosevelt invited Washington to dine with him at the White House making him the first black man ever to do so. Whoever wrote this racist note and drawing apparently did not approve of the gesture suggesting that Roosevelt's eldest daughter Alice marry the Civil Rights pioneer.</p>
