American Historical Ephemera and Photography, Featuring African Americana

PECK, Jim, ed. Sit Ins: The Students Report. New York: Congress of Racial Equality, 1960. 8vo (153 x 215 mm). Staple-bound original illustrated wrappers (vertical central crease throughout pamphlet from old fold, light toning). Includes six letters from students detailing their experiences participating in sit-ins across the country, with an introductory letter by Lillian Smith entitled, "Only the Young and the Brave."

PECK, Jim, and Alexander L. CROSBY, eds. A First Step Toward School Integration. New York: Congress of Racial Equality, 1958. 8vo (152 x 216 mm). Staple-bound original illustrated wrappers (vertical central crease throughout pamphlet from old fold, toning and occasional spots of discoloration throughout). Features an article by Anna Holden narrating the desegregation in Nashville schools in the fall of 1957 and the way a CORE group supported parents and children through the process. A foreword by Martin Luther King, Jr. concludes: "The key to success in Nashville was CORE's policy of backing up the parents—by visiting them and by escorting their children to integrated schools. If Little Rock had had a strong interracial group, Governor Faubus might have been checked without the use of federal troops."

5 & 10c End Jim-Crow in Woolworths. [New York, NY]: New York Youth Congress], n.d. 8vo (138 x 210 mm). Original illustrated wrappers (some wear, creasing). Pamphlet discusses the discrimination against young Black women applying for jobs at Woolworth stores.

Freedom Now: New Stage in the Struggle for Negro Emancipation. New York: Pioneer Publishers (for the Socialist Workers Party), 1963. 8vo (154 x 228 mm). Staple-bound original illustrated wrappers (chipping, loss, creasing throughout, some ink underlining to text). Reprinted from the Fall 1963 issue of the International Socialist Review, the article featured in this pamphlet, in part, discusses the role of the Socialists Workers Party in the "negro struggle."