First Edition. An early printed defense of Japanese immigrant rights in English, an appeal by one of the most prominent Japanese immigrants in California against the 1920 Alien Land Law initiative. This brochure-pamphlet was issued during the campaign to expand the scope of California’s alien land law. The measure proposed.....

First Edition. The first (and only) edition of this memoir by Reies López Tijerina (1926–2015), a central and controversial figure in the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Known as King Tiger and "the Malcolm X of the Chicano movement" (Encylopedia Britannica), Tijerina led the Alianza Federal de Mercedes.....

First Edition. The first edition of the first book on the Underground Railroad, published only in England while the fabled escape route for enslaved Americans was still active. William Mitchell was born free, the son of an enslaved man and a Native American woman in North Carolina. According to the.....

First British edition. The first British edition (two years after the American) of one of the Library of Congress's 88 Books that Shaped America: "'Few books make history and fewer still become foundational texts for the movements and struggles of an entire people. The Souls of Black Folk occupies this.....

First edition. This is one of a handful of mid-century books published in an attempt to paint a more positive picture of Mexican Americans in US history. Here Canales reprints and annotates two historical essays documenting Mexican American participation in the Texas war for independence. Canales particularly wants to refute.....

First Edition. A picture book, winner of many awards, including the Pura Belpré, Tomás Rivera, Jane Addams, and the Américas award. The author-artist was born in Mexico to American and Mexican parents; he attended high school and college in the US and now lives in Mexico. This book won the.....

First Edition. A reprint of an article from Harper's Magazine by a Navy doctor stationed in Hawaii who describes the response of the Japanese-American community to the attack on Pearl Harbor and to the internment of Japanese Americans on the West Coast. Coggins describes their efforts to demonstrate that they.....

In this Lange image, a man and woman, both African American, stand in a field holding hoes or other farming implements. Lange took this image while working for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (two WPA agencies). The most famous image from this period in her career is.....

First Edition. A rare early work explaining the ideas of socialism by one of the founding members of the Japanese Socialist Party. The fourteen short chapters were originally published in the Niroku Shinpo newspaper. This book version was published by another early Japanese Socialist leader, Katayama Sen. Katayama and Abe.....

A portrait of an unidentified migrant farm worker on the edge of the California desert, just north of the Mexican border. He sits on a dirt berm, in a row of other men, suggested only by their elbows, which are visible at the edges of the image. Lange took this.....

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 inches.....

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.....