First Edition. The memoirs of the brother of the assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers. xii, 196 pages. First edition (stated first printing). Some spotting to the front board, else very good in a very good dust jacket with shallow chipping to the top of the spine. Pages tanned, as.....

A full-length cabinet card portrait of Sojourner Truth with the caption, "I sell the shadow to support the substance." This is one of Truth's last portraits, taken when she was in her eighties and purchased in bulk to sell at events, hence the caption. During the Civil War, Truth took.....

A single issue of this short-lived community newspaper which sprang up in San Francisco's Mission District to gather support for Los Siete, a group of Latinos who were then under arrest for the murder of a police officer. The men were ultimately acquitted. This issue includes interviews with the defendants.....

A poster publicizing the grape boycott led by Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers by one of the best-known graphic designers of the era. The artwork depicts a bunch of grapes in the shape of a skull with a Chavez quote at the bottom taken from the Plan of.....

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.....

This powerful epic poem, in parallel English and Spanish versions, was the literary manifesto for the Chicano movement. It was widely read and performed during the late 1960s and early 1970s, bringing together literature and politics, the hallmark of Chicano political movements for many years thereafter. The book was widely.....

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 copy print, made from a photograph of the original print (see below). In this Lange image, six people wearing long shirts and hats are bent over at the waist tending to rows of lettuce. A dried and cracked furrow fills the left foreground. Lange took this image while working.....

A rare original cabinet card of the most well-known portrait of the anarchist and radical labor organizer Lucy Parsons, taken by German immigrant photographer Louis Gogler. Gogler operated a large studio in the Bowery neighborhood in New York City but Parsons obtained the copyright for the image and thus the.....

One of Lange's powerful portraits of destitute farmworkers taken in California in 1936 while she was working for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (two WPA agencies). The most famous image from this period in her career is Migrant Mother, the iconic Depression-era photograph. This image shows Jess Power.....

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.....