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171962577Erie PA: Erie Litho & Printing Co. March 17 1923. Large double atlas folio dual-sided broadside printed on newsprint sized 9.25 x 42 in. photo & woodcut engraving illustrations recto & verso toning to paper some chipping & edgewear paper repairs to closed tears still a G- copy. First edition thus of this advertising broadside for Erickson’s “J.W. Johnson’s Old Reliable Virginia Minstrels World’s best colored show. . . “ which touts their supposed 15 year history and appear to have either been reformed from the “Alabama Minstrels†show which played throughout the West and Midwest from 1905-1914 or simply taken over some of their acts. The contortionist fire king Hi Henry Hunt who appears in this broadside regularly performed with the “Alabama Minstrels†from 1905-1913. The silver voiced tenor A.J. McFarland and Grace Arniot Royal Entertainer depicted on the broadside also appear to have been African-American rather than black face performers. The name appears to have been drawn from the 19th-Century original “Virginia Minstrels†or the “Melodious Ethiopian Band†which featured Billy Whitlokc Dick Pelham Frank Brower and Dan Emmett performing in New York’s Bowery Amphitheater in 1843 and launched the minstrelsy form of entertainment. Emmett is perhaps best remembered as the author of “Dixie†which ironically would become the Confederate States unofficial anthem. Assorted versions dating 1920-1924 with different content & sizing appear in 6 libraries Harvard DLC 3 versions Middle Tenn. State Lib. of VA; See: Dr. Karl Koenig The History & Music of the Minstrels Rue Basin Source for Historical Jazz 2024. Erie Litho & Printing Co., unknown
AC2-10-28-17MRMsNew. unknown
021310No Place: No publisher. Unbound. Good. No publisher place or date. Perhaps circa 1966-68. 8 ½ by 11 inches. Thin paper stock. Black and white printing. A handbill using racist epithets to highlight institutional racism in the military and the US stating among other things "Support White Power-travel to Viet Nam you might get a medal!"; "Receive valuable training in the skills of killing off other oppressed people!"; and "-you can't die fast enough in the ghettos." This imagery has also appeared in a 9x12 inch color format substituting the word "needs" for "wants." The Civil Rights Archive has a circa 1966 photo of Kwame Ture Stokely Carmichael handing out this style leaflet. GOOD condition. Moderate toning. Some creasing along the edges and corners. Faint dampstain at the center left edge. No publisher 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
1475863152.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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
0930244036.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback