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June 1968

NAACP

Pamphlet

Title: NAACP Annual Report for 1967

One pamphlet entitled, "NAACP Annual Report for 1967." Item contains summary of organization's efforts towards civil rights: listing accomplishments of different state chapters, voter registration and political action, annual convention, finances, voter registration sites, and a photo essay of the Youth Council.

GLC09640.164

June 1969

NAACP

Pamphlet

Title: NAACP Annual Report for 1968

One pamphlet entitled, "NAACP Annual Report for 1968." Item contains summary of organization's efforts which include legislation, public school desegregation, housing agencies, pupil incentive program, finances, and the annual convention.

GLC09640.165.02

28 July 1967

Dandridge, Frank (fl. 1967)

Magazine

Title: Newark: The Predictable Insurrection

One cover of Life magazine entitled, "Newark: The Predictable Insurrection," dated July 28, 1967. Image displays the body of Joe Bass Jr., a 12-year-old boy who was wounded by police gunfire during a riot.

GLC09779.12

1 December 1968

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

Pamphlet

Title: Ella's Night, A Tribute to Miss Ella Fitzgerald

One pamphlet entitled, "Ella's Night, A Tribute to Miss Ella Fitzgerald," dated December 1, 1968. This commemorates an evening in the New York Coliseum sponsored by the Tau Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Fitzgerald was honored for a financial contribution she made to the Martin Luther King Foundation and to the Tau Omega Scholarship Fund, as well as for her service as a civil rights activist. Contains messages to Ella Fitzgerald from government officials, society members, sorority members, and fellow musicians.

GLC09640.003

1969

Streeter, Thomas W. (Thomas Winthrop) (1883-1965)

Book

Title: The celebrated collection of Americana formed by the late Thomas Winthrop Streeter...

(title continues)... Morristown, New Jersey sold by order of the trustees. Volume six of a seven volume collection, plus index. Includes: the Pacific West, Oregon, British Columbia, Alaska, Canada, Hawaii, and maps. Published by Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (affiliated with Sotheby & Co. in London). Contains images of items in the collection. Pages numbered 2284-2766.

GLC03261.06

1969

Streeter, Thomas W. (Thomas Winthrop) (1883-1965)

Book

Title: The celebrated collection of Americana formed by the late Thomas Winthrop Streeter...

(title continues)... Morristown, New Jersey sold by order of the trustees. Volume seven of a seven volume collection, plus index. Includes: transportation and communications, economics, education, sports, western hemisphere and the Pacific, literature and the arts, first separate account of New Jersey, social history, reference works. Published by Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (affiliated with Sotheby & Co. in London). Public auction 21 and 22 October. Contains images of items in the collection. Pages numbered 2768-3001.

GLC03261.07

1970

Streeter, Thomas W. (Thomas Winthrop) (1883-1965)

Book

Title: The celebrated collection of Americana formed by the late Thomas Winthrop Streeter...

(title continues)... Index: a dictionary check-list of the seven sale catalogues October 1966- October 1969. Compiled by Edward J. Lazare. Published by Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (affiliated with Sotheby & Co). Accompanies volumes one-seven of Streeter's collection of Americana.

GLC03261.08

December 1969

Unknown

Magazine

Title: "National Geographic," Volume 136, No. 6, December 1969

One issue of "National Geographic," Volume 136, No. 6, December 1969. Cover of issue includes image of a Buzz Aldrin walking on the image. A special issue of the magazine was a five-part story on the landing of the moon.

GLC09689.04

1969

Society of the Silurians

Pamphlet

Title: Society of the Silurians: Directory and Handbook [1968-1969]

One copy of the directory and handbook dated 1968-1969 printed by the Society of the Silurians. Includes names of past presidents; directory of members; the institution's consitution and their mission statement. News anchor, Walter Cronkite is listed as a member.

GLC09640.271

1969

Sewall, Samuel (1652-1730)

Pamphlet

Title: The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial

One handbook entitled, "The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial," printed by The University of Massachusetts Press dated 1945. Item was originally printed in 1700 as a declaration against slavery. Also includes a biography of Sewall, his interest in anti-slavery and information on the enslaved man, Adam.

GLC09640.323

1969

Wilkins, Roy (1901-1981)

Pamphlet

Title: "Haynsworth Dissenting (On Civil Rights)

One pamphlet entitled, "Haynsworth Dissenting (On Civil Rights)" dated 1969 by Roy Wilkins. Wilkins argues that Clement F. Haynsworth's segreationist attitudes disqualifies him from being on the Supreme Court. This is due to his opinions that upheld segregation in schools and hospitals.

GLC09640.182

12 March 1969

Fein, Leonard J. (1934-2014)

Pamphlet

Title: The Negro Revolution and the Jewish Community

One pamphlet entitled, "The Negro Revolution and the Jewish Community" dated 1969. Item is a transcript of remarks made from a conference given at Columbia University on March 12, 1969. Remarks express the synagogue's needed participation in the fight for civil rights for African Americans.

GLC09640.279

April 1969

NAACP

Pamphlet

Title: We've just started...

One pamphlet entitled, "We've just started..." dated April 1969. Item is a small pamphlet that printed images of Roy Wilkins's hands with blocks of text. Text could possibly be drawn from a speech regarding racial segregation and the work yet to be accomplished attaining civil rights.

GLC09640.167.01

April 1969

NAACP

Pamphlet

Title: We've just started...

One pamphlet entitled, "We've just started..." dated April 1969. Item is a small pamphlet that printed images of Roy Wilkins's hands with blocks of text. Text could possibly be drawn from a speech regarding racial segregation and the work yet to be accomplished attaining civil rights.

GLC09640.167.02

May 1969

Kerry, Tom, (fl. 1963-1970)

Pamphlet

Title: International Socialist Review Volume 30 Number 3 Whole number 192

This journal contains two main essays, The Debate on Workers Control by Ernest Mandel, and The Financial Empires of America's Ruling Class, by Dick Roberts. it also contains three smaller pieces; Otto Bauer: A Representative Theoretician of Austro-Marxism, by Pierre Frank, Some Affinities Between the Social Democracy and Stalinism, by Gerry Foley and, Ernst Fischer Solicits Otto Bauer for the Popular Front in 1936.

GLC09643.16

June 1969

NAACP

Pamphlet

Title: NAACP Annual Report for 1968.

One pamphlet entitled "NAACP Annual Report for 1968." Item contains summary of organization's efforts which include legislation, public school desegregation, housing agencies, pupil incentive program, finances, and the annual convention.

GLC09640.165.01

September 1969

Commentary

Magazine

Title: Commentary [Vol. 48, No.3 (September 1969)]

Volume 48, No. 3 issue of "Commentary" dated September 1969. Features article, "The Fantasy of Black Nationalism" by Theodore Draper. Details the history of black nationalism from slavery to the Black Panther movement.

GLC09640.046

1970

Klemme, Huber F. (fl. 1970)

Pamphlet

Title: Social Action

GLC09416.08

1970

Cannon, Terry (fl. 1970)

Pamphlet

Title: All Power to the People: The Story of the Black Panther Party

GLC09416.10

1970

The Black Panther Party

Pamphlet

Title: Interpol: Its Function in the World in the International Criminal

GLC09416.11

1970

Lightfoot, Claude M. (1910–1991).

Pamphlet

Title: Black America and The World Revolution

This pamphlet is the publication of five speeches given from 1966-1970 by Lightfoot. These speeches are; The American Peace Movement: A Vital Force for World Peace, delivered at a conference on the thirtieth anniversary of the Seventh World Congress of the Communist International; held in Prague 1966. The Civil War and Black Liberation Today, delivered to a group of black graduate students at Harvard 1968. The International Significance of Black Liberation in the United States Lecture presented at Karl Marx University Leipzig Germany 1969.

GLC09643.17

06 April 1970

Donovan, Hedley (fl. 1970)

Magazine

Title: Time Magazine Special Issue. [Vol. 95, no. 14 (April 6, 1970)]

GLC09416.09

June 1970

NAACP

Pamphlet

Title: NAACP Annual Report for 1969

One pamphlet entitled, "NAACP Annual Report for 1969," dated 1970. Item contains summary of organization's efforts: legislation, public school desegregation, housing agencies, rezoning based on a racial bias, finances, and the annual convention.

GLC09640.166.01

June 1970

NAACP

Pamphlet

Title: NAACP Annual Report for 1969

One pamphlet entitled, "NAACP Annual Report for 1969," dated 1970. Item contains summary of organization's efforts: legislation, public school desegregation, housing agencies, rezoning based on a racial bias, finances, and the annual convention.

GLC09640.166.02

17 June 1970

Journal of Negro Education

Pamphlet

Title: [University Settlement donation request]

One letter dated June 17, 1970 from Herbert Bungard, Chairman of the Summer Program requesting donations. Writes about children playing "face dreary days" in the summer living in the city.

GLC09640.103.04

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