Possibly the earliest surviving image of Helen Keller (1880–1968), taken in August 1887, when she was seven years old, about five months after Anne Sullivan (1866–1936) became her teacher; together with a second photograph of Sullivan taken about the same time. The image of Keller shows her sitting in a low.....
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First Edition. A brief biography of a British Quaker prison reformer, told in part through extended quotations from her writings. Fry was honored in the UK with her picture on the 5-pound note. This is an adaptation of a book published by the London Tract Association. 94 pages. 4-1/8 by 6-1/4.....
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![March on Washington Funds Solicitation]. Martha Elwell](/pictures/thumb/306800.jpg?v=1598906105)
A letter to members of the Highland Congregational Church in Portland, Oregon, soliciting funds to send a delegation to the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. Elwell, the chair of the church committee, needed to raise $3500 to charter a......
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First Edition. A criminologist describes criminal activities and criminals in Buenos Aires, with chapters on professional criminals, thieves and loan sharks, prostitution, pimps (the "parasites of prostitution"), vagrancy, faith healers, and of greatest current interest, homosexuality. Gomez first traces the history of homosexuality to Greece and Rome and then discusses.....
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First Edition. A criminologist describes criminal activities and criminals in Buenos Aires, with chapters on professional criminals, thieves and loan sharks, prostitution, pimps (the "parasites of prostitution"), vagrancy, faith healers, and of greatest current interest, homosexuality. Gomez first traces the history of homosexuality to Greece and Rome and then discusses.....
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Woodcut of a fist, an image which became one of the iconic symbols of 1960s and 1970s activism. According to the New York Times obituary of Cieciorka (1939–2008), his "woodcut rendering of a clenched-fist salute was a model for the New Left's most ubiquitous emblem." It was used, often with.....
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![This Is the Zoot Suit [Press Photo]. Associated Press](/pictures/thumb/551.jpg?v=1598073316)
On June 10, hundreds of newspapers reprinted this photograph, transmitted over the news wire, catapulting the defining costume of pachuco style into the national spotlight. Every survey of the Zoot Suit refers to this image. Roughly 8 by 11 inches. AP Wirephoto of medium quality with a caption on the right-hand.....
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Original black-and-white gelatin-silver press photograph, January 31, 1968. 10-1/4 by 8 inches (oblong). A dramatic image of a white woman throwing an uppercut at a young white man protesting for the integration of an elementary school. The clipping attached to the photo on the back (verso) reads, "Two men carrying signs.....
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First Edition. [7] pages. 4-1/2 by 6 inches. A two-poem chapbook by one of the founders of the Black Panthers. Both poems are critical of the Soviet Union. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in wrappers (pamphlet). Staples beginning to rust. A bit of wear to the corners.....
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First Edition. [7] pages. 4-1/2 by 6 inches. A single-poem chapbook by one of the founders of the Black Panthers. A poem about an anti-imperialist delegation to North Korea and China. Designed by George Mattingly. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
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First Edition. [12] pages. 4-1/2 by 6 inches. A three-poem chapbook by one of the founders of the Black Panthers. The title poem is about China. A near fine copy in wrappers (pamphlet). Staples a bit rusted.
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First Edition. [12] pages. 4-1/2 by 6 inches. A single-poem chapbook by one of the founders of the Black Panthers. Here he is critical of Idi Amin. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (pamphlet). Staples a touch rusted, very minor spotting to covers.
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First Edition. [8] pages. 4-1/2 by 6 inches. A two-poem chapbook by one of the founders of the Black Panthers. One addresses toxic waste in black neighborhoods and the other describes moral failings of African American preachers. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Staples beginning.....
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First Edition. 242 pages. Text in Spanish. A criminologist describes criminal activities and criminals in Buenos Aires, with chapters on professional criminals, thieves and loan sharks, prostitution, pimps (the "parasites of prostitution"), vagrancy, faith healers, and of greatest current interest, homosexuality. Gomez first traces the history of homosexuality to Greece.....
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First Edition. 231 pages. An anthology of anti-slavery sentiment from a wide variety of politicians and other public figures, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, and Lydia Maria Child. There are chapters on "Authentic anecdotes of United States slavery" and "The African character." Illustrated.....
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First Edition. 31 pages. A Southerner argues that a revived foreign slave trade was crucial to the Southern economy. Spratt believed that importing new slaves from Africa would reduce the price of slaves in the United States, lower labor costs, and bring slaves within the economic reach of the average.....
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![Texte: der RAF [Karlek med forhinder]. Rote Armee Fraktion / Red Army Faction, as A. Rosenberg](/pictures/thumb/4931.jpg?v=1603129613)
First Edition. 599 pages. An anthology of writings and publications by the leaders of the Red Army Faction, the violent, radical leftist group that bombed government targets in Germany in the 1970s. The organization, often known as the Baader-Meinhof Group after the surnames of its founders, was banned in West.....
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49, [23], [1] pages. Offers background, policies, procedures, forms, talking points, and position papers for the NAACP in California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska. Dating based on 1959–60 California legislature list bound in. Uncommon. Minor staining to covers, else very good in brad-bound wrappers.
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Single sheet of newsprint folded to make four 11-1/2 by 16-1/2 pages. The first page prints Cleaver's call for a Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention; the center spread is a message delivered on the 107th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation; and the back page offers Newton's outline of basic principles for.....
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First Edition. 812 pages. A massive and massively influential poetry anthology that has remained in print and a steady seller for two decades. Forché gathers writers from around the world responding to the worst of humanity, from war to genocide to political oppression, finding art in the darkest places. First.....
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