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Softcover. xii, 276 p.; 20 cm. Appendix A: list of participating schools (by state), with names of superintendent and report compiler Good ex-lib., sewn, in rubbed red and blue on white wrapper.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. One page has a small open tear at the tip. Some wear along the DJ edges and tips. Minor discoloration to pages. Minor wear along the edges and tips of the book itself. Some rubbing wear to DJ covers along with light creases and/or wrinkles at some spots. Small ding at top edge closer to the spine on front cover.…

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Hardcover. Etat : Like New. Like New. First Edition. Publisher: The New Press, New York, 1996.First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. As new. Unread. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.…

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48p. 1 vols. 8vo. 48p. 1 vols. 8vo. This publication was in response to the request for a condensed and less technical version of "Psychiatric Aspects of School Desegregation" Aqua and white glossy wrappers, lightly rubbed and soiled else very good.

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Etat : Very Good. 42 pp, issued as 86th Congress, 1st Session, HR 956; light general age toning but still a very good copy in self wrappers; comments on a bill to strengthen the penal law with respect to the obstruction of court orders in public school desegregation cases . - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.…

Black Power School photograph, 1967, documents community education for Black children in Nashville during the city's transition from the integration campaigns of the early Civil Rights Movement toward Black Power programs emphasizing Black history, political education, and community self-determination. Nashville had begun gradual public-school desegregation in 1957, but integration remained incomplete a decade later. During the summer of 1967, the North Nashville Student Summer Project operated a "liberation school" whose Black teachers offered instruction in mathematics, science, humanities, civics, and Black history; after controversy over its Black Power curriculum led to its removal from St. Anselm's Episcopal Chapel and suspension of the larger summer project in August, classes continued for a time on Saturdays in nearby Watkins Park. The photograph's August 16, 1967 filing date and press caption recording a "Black Power School" meeting in a Nashville park place the image within this specific period of conflict over Black-controlled education in the city. Original silver gelatin press photograph, 8 x 10 in., Nashville, Tennessee, 1967. Twelve African American children and youths sit together on a park bench while several adults stand behind them; white reporters and members of the press gather nearby, recording the outdoor class as a news event. Typed press caption pasted to the verso reads: "Black Power School holds classes in a park in Nashville, Tenn." An original press filing stamp on the verso is dated August 16, 1967. The presence of reporters is particularly relevant to the photograph's immediate context: earlier that month, testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee alleging that Nashville's liberation school taught racial hatred had generated national press coverage, while its organizers defended Black Power education as an assertion of Black self-determination rather than racial hostility. The image records children receiving instruction outside a conventional school building while journalists observe, preserving both the educational activity itself and the intense press attention directed toward Black Power organizing in Nashville in 1967. That year also saw Stokely Carmichael speak at Tennessee State University in April, followed the next day by a confrontation between Black students and police that resulted in injuries and more than forty arrests, placing debates over Black Power, policing, and racial inequality at the center of Nashville public life. Original press caption, filing stamp, and pencil annotations on verso. Approximately 1 x 1½ in. area of surface damage and loss at lower left corner; otherwise very good condition.…

First Edition. [African American][Civil Rights] White, Walter. How Far the Promised Land? Foreword by Ralph J. Bunche. New York: The Viking Press, 1955. First edition. Publisher's green cloth, in original dust jacket designed by Robert Hallock. The final book by civil rights activist Walter White (1893-1955), longtime executive secretary of the NAACP and one of the most important civil rights leaders of the twentieth century. Completed shortly before his sudden death in March 1955, How Far the Promised Land? surveys the progress and setbacks in African American life during the preceding fifteen years. White evaluates landmark achievements such as the Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the desegregation of the armed services, and the growth of Black political participation and trade unionism, while also acknowledging the persistence of prejudice, segregation, and economic inequality. The work stands as both memoir and manifesto: a summation of White's lifetime of activism, and a statement of faith in the democratic process as a means of resolving "the Negro problem." Particularly notable is his rejection of Communism as a political solution, reflecting debates within mid-century Black intellectual and political life. With a foreword by Nobel Prize-winning diplomat Ralph J. Bunche, the book underscores its place in the civil rights discourse at the dawn of the modern movement. Dust jacket shows edgewear, small chips at head and tail of spine, with mild soiling to rear panel; still bright and well-preserved. Cloth binding clean and firm, textblock crisp. Overall, a very good copy in good only jacket. A significant primary source for historians of the civil rights struggle, published at a pivotal moment between Brown v. Board and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.…

Hooks, Benjamin L., ed. The Crisis: Special Issue - 25th Anniversary of Brown Decision (June/July 1979) marks a significant moment in African American civil rights historiography, documenting the NAACP's reassessment of Brown v. Board of Education twenty-five years after the ruling. Issued during a period of stalled and contested school desegregation, the publication supports research into African American educational history, civil rights law, and the institutional role of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in shaping and evaluating legal strategy. The issue brings together Black legal scholars, educators, and activists to examine the outcomes and limitations of desegregation, addressing the persistence of structural inequality in American public education despite the formal end of segregation. Hooks, Benjamin L., ed. The Crisis: Special Issue - 25th Anniversary of Brown Decision. New York: NAACP, June/July 1979. Vol. 86, Nos. 6-7. Perfect-bound in original pictorial wrappers. The front cover features a photograph of NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorneys, including Thurgood Marshall, George E. C. Hayes, and James Nabrit Jr., positioned before shelves of legal volumes, emphasizing the centrality of Black legal advocacy. Interior contents include a facsimile of the 1955 Crisis announcement of the Brown decision and essays such as "Brown v. Board of Education: Twenty-five Years Later," "After Brown: Battles in the Courts and in the Streets," and "The Black Child and the Public School." These contributions analyze regional and national desegregation efforts, documenting continued segregation through redistricting practices, the rise of private academies, and inequities in school funding. 96 pages. Illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers. The issue foregrounds both legal analysis and lived educational experience, presenting a critical evaluation of the gap between judicial rulings and their implementation. Minor surface soiling to front wrapper and slight edgewear; overall very good. Produced at a time when northern and southern school systems faced renewed conflict over integration policies, including busing and districting disputes, this issue provides direct insight into the evolving critique within the civil rights movement regarding educational equality. The publication stands as a substantial record of Black institutional reflection on legal victory and its limits, offering concentrated documentation of the ongoing struggle for equitable public education in the United States.…

Bayonne NAACP annual dinner program from 1962, documenting the local fundraising and leadership that sustained branch level civil rights organizing. Sponsored by Black owned businesses and individual donors, the dinner reflects the close community networks through which the branch financed and maintained its work at the height of the national Civil Rights Movement. N.A.A.C.P. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Bayonne Branch. Annual Dinner at the Hit Hat Club. Bayonne, 1962. 20 pages. 9 x 6 inches. Soft blue wrappers. The program includes the evening's order of events, elected officers and executive board, named sponsors, special acknowledgments to donors, and an additional grouped list of smaller contributors, preserving the structure of both chapter leadership and community financial support. In 1962, local NAACP branches operated as the organizational base for membership drives, fundraising, employment and housing campaigns, desegregation efforts, and other civil rights work carried out at the municipal and state level. The Bayonne program records that infrastructure at the scale of a single community, showing businesses, individual contributors, and elected leadership supporting the branch through a formal annual gathering. Light stains to front wrapper, possibly from food; textblock bright and clean. Overall very good condition. A compact record of the local financial and organizational networks behind NAACP civil rights activity in early 1960s Bayonne.…

[African American] [Education] Archive of five issues of The Journal of Negro Education: A Quarterly Review of Problems Incident to the Education of Negroes, published by The Howard University Press for the Bureau of Educational Research, Washington, D.C., between 1967 and 1973. Original printed blue wrappers. Founded in 1932 by educator and psychologist Charles Henry Thompson, the first African American to earn a doctorate in educational psychology and later Dean of Howard University's School of Education, the journal became one of the most influential scholarly publications devoted to the study of Black education in the United States. Established during the era of Jim Crow segregation and continuing through the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, the journal sought to collect and disseminate research on the education of African Americans, critically evaluate educational policies and practices, and encourage scholarly investigation into issues affecting Black students and communities. By the 1960s and 1970s, it had become a leading forum for examining school desegregation, educational inequality, Black identity, poverty, higher education, and the social consequences of racial discrimination. The archive includes five substantial issues published during a transformative period in American education and race relations: Winter 1967 (Vol. XXXVI, No. 1). Articles include Some Effects of Deprivation on Intelligence, Achievement, and Cognitive Growth; Notes on the Education of Negroes in North Carolina During the Civil War; The Negro Undergraduate Student: Factors Relative to Performance in Predominantly White State Colleges and Universities in Tennessee; and Beyond Poverty of Income. Published amid the national debate surrounding the War on Poverty and educational inequality. Spring 1967 (Vol. XXXVI, No. 2). Features studies on school improvement, unemployment, emotional development among Black youth, and contemporary trends in Black education, reflecting growing concern over urban poverty and unequal educational opportunity. Summer 1967 (Vol. XXXVI, No. 3). The annual Yearbook Number devoted to The Higher Education of Negro Americans: Prospects and Programs. Essays examine graduate education, the role of predominantly white institutions in educating Black students, educational opportunity, and the experiences of Black college students in the South. Issued during a period of rapidly expanding college enrollment and increasing demands for equal access to higher education. Fall 1969 (Vol. XXXVIII, No. 4). Published in the aftermath of major civil rights legislation and amid widespread school desegregation efforts. Articles analyze academic desegregation, interracial attitudes among college students, self-concept among Black and white youth in segregated environments, and methodological questions surrounding social science research on race. Winter 1973 (Vol. XLII, No. 1). Reflecting the intellectual climate of the Black Power era, this issue includes studies such as Differences Between Black Youth Who Support the Black Panthers and the NAACP; Do Black Studies Make a Difference in Ghetto Children's Achievements and Attitudes; The Children of Immigrants in the Schools; and School Desegregation, Socioeconomic Status, Sex and the Aspirations of Negro Adolescents. The issue captures scholarly efforts to evaluate the impact of Black Studies programs and evolving forms of Black political and educational activism. Taken together, these volumes document some of the most significant debates in twentieth-century African American educational history, including segregation and desegregation, educational deprivation, Black identity formation, civil rights, Black Power, access to higher education, and the continuing struggle for educational equality. The contributors represent a generation of educators, psychologists, sociologists, and policy researchers whose work helped shape both academic scholarship and public discussion of race and education in the United States. Light fading to wrappers, primarily along spines and edges, with minor staining and handling wear. Bindings remain sound and contents clean. Overall very good condition. An important scholarly archive documenting the evolution of Black educational thought during the Civil Rights and Black Power eras.…

Woodson, Carter Godwin. The Journal of Negro History traces Black historical scholarship from the civil rights movement of the late 1960s to the constitutional battles over affirmative action in the early 1980s. Kenneth B. Clark, a psychologist whose work with Mamie Phipps Clark on children and racial segregation was cited in Brown v. Board of Education opens the January 1968 issue with "The Present Dilemma of the Negro," while other issues examine racial thought in colonial America, Black sailors in the Navy and merchant service, discipline under industrial slavery in the Old South, antislavery agents working with free Black communities from 1833 to 1838, and the Bakke, Weber, and Fullilove affirmative-action cases. William M. Brewer and Alton Hornsby, Jr., eds. The Journal of Negro History. Washington, D.C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1967-1982. Nine quarterly issues. Vol. LIII, Nos. 3 and 4, July and October 1967; Vol. LIII, Nos. 1 and 2, January and April 1968; Vol. LIV, Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, January, April, July, and October 1969; Vol. LV, No. 1, January 1970; and Vol. LXVII, No. 3, Fall 1982. Including writings, "The Emergence of DuBois As An African Nationalist"; Max Welborn, "Racial Massacre In Atlanta September 22, 1906"; Valeria W. Weaver, "The Failure Of Civil Rights 1875-1883 And Its Repercussions"; and "The Ethel Johns Report: Black Women In The Nursing Profession, 1925." These issues show Woodson's program in the decades after civil rights activism brought Black historical scholarship into debates over school desegregation, voting rights enforcement, affirmative action, and the recovery of African origins in Atlantic slavery. January 1969 number includes the annual report "The Mis-Education of The Negro," tying the Association's current work to Woodson's critique of American schooling, while the 1982 number places King's memory, Central African slavery, Black women's nursing labor, affirmative action, and Civil War freedom claims in the same scholarly forum. A compact run of The Journal of Negro History that connects ASALH's Woodson-era mission to late twentieth-century scholarship on enslavement, civil rights enforcement, African Diaspora origins, Black labor, and affirmative action law. Wrappers show toning, some scattered stains, with some issues showing binding weakness; interiors remain readable. Overall very good condition.…

First Edition. USO Division of the Young Women's Christian Association. Experiments in Democracy, 1944, documents YWCA interracial service work during World War II, showing the mechanisms by which women-led USO programming addressed segregation, Black servicemen's recreation, and "Negro-white relationships in America" before federal military desegregation. The pamphlet provides primary-source evidence for the study of African American military experience, women's wartime social work, interracial civic education, and the contradiction between democratic war aims and segregated military practice. USO Division of the Young Women's Christian Association. Experiments in Democracy. New York: USO Division of the Young Women's Christian Association, [1944]. First edition. 80 pages, including 16 photographs, staple-bound illustrated wrappers, 8vo. The pamphlet states its purpose as recording steps taken toward "service to all involved in the war effort" and "setting forward Negro-white relationships in America." It discusses conditions affecting Black servicemen, including economics, limited social agencies, educational and cultural development, and restricted private recreation. Photographs show Black and white servicemen and USO women in integrated social settings: banquets, musical programs, interracial discussion groups, a white soldier lighting a Black soldier's cigarette beneath the caption "No color lines in the front lines and no segregation in the hospitals for our war wounded!," women in welding uniforms captioned as welding "friendship between two races," and a Black nurse assisting a white serviceman. The pamphlet appeared four years before President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948, declaring equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin. Its examples of choruses, recreation, athletic contests, and interracial discussion groups show how the YWCA's USO Division used wartime service spaces to challenge racial separation within a military culture still structured by segregation. Minor edge wear; overall very good condition. A substantive wartime pamphlet on African American servicemen, women's interracial organizing, and civil rights work before the formal desegregation of the U.S. armed forces.…

First Edition. Graham, Lorenz. South Town; North Town; Whose Town? 1958-1969. These three novels document African American youth experience across the Jim Crow South and mid-century Northern cities, presenting a sustained narrative of migration, education, and racial inequality through the character of David Williams. Written during and immediately preceding the Civil Rights era, the series provides primary literary evidence of how segregation, limited economic opportunity, and racial violence shaped Black childhood and adolescence, while also addressing the transition from Southern rural life to Northern urban environments. The material supports research into African American children's literature, mid-20th century migration narratives, and the representation of race, education, and social mobility in postwar American fiction. Graham, Lorenz. South Town. New York: The New American Library, 1965. First Signet Key Book paperback edition. North Town. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965. First printing. Whose Town? New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1969. First printing. Three volumes . [1] Graham, Lorenz. South Town. Introduces David Williams in a Southern Black community under Jim Crow segregation, presenting scenes of school life, family structure, and rural labor. Narrative centers on David's ambition to pursue education amid systemic barriers, with episodes depicting racial intimidation, economic instability, and community cohesion. Cover illustration shows a young boy positioned before a schoolhouse, emphasizing educational aspiration as a central theme. [2] Graham, Lorenz. North Town. Follows the Williams family's relocation to a Northern city, documenting urban neighborhoods, integrated school settings, and shifting racial dynamics. Scenes include classroom interactions, peer conflict, and encounters with institutional discrimination distinct from Southern segregation. Dust jacket artwork by Ernest Crichlow depicts urban Black life, reinforcing themes of migration and adaptation. [3] Graham, Lorenz. Whose Town? Continues David's development into adolescence within an urban environment marked by heightened racial tension. The narrative includes depictions of youth gatherings, neighborhood conflict, and emerging forms of Black political awareness. Cover features a portrait of David, aligning the work with themes of identity formation and civic belonging. The series was produced during a period of intensified national attention to civil rights, including school desegregation efforts and urban unrest, situating Graham's work within broader debates on race, education, and citizenship. Unlike earlier children's literature that minimized racial conflict, these novels present direct engagement with structural inequality and the lived realities of Black youth across regions. Three volumes; South Town 128 pages, North Town 152 pages, Whose Town? 176 pages; illustrated; bindings include paperback and hardcover with dust jacket present on later volumes. Light toning and edge wear to wraps; North Town with ex-library markings including stamps, pocket, and tape residue; Whose Town? dust jacket with minor edge wear; text across volumes remains clean and legible. Overall good to very good condition. This complete grouping provides a continuous narrative arc documenting African American youth experience across regional and social transitions in mid-20th century United States literature.…