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Contains 32 Results:

Smith, Amada. "Cheery Christianity" YMCA, Albany, New York, ca. 1890

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 27
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Program announces arrival of Amanda Smith (1837-1915), billed as "the famous Colored Evangelist." She toured widely, typically coming to a city and conducting several services.

Dates: ca. 1890

Conway, Gerry (writer)."Testing of a hero." Justice League of America, v. 20, no. 173. DC Comics, New York, December, 1979

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 29
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Comic is notable for introduction of Black Lightning, the first Black superhero invited to join the established Justice League of America. In this issue, Black Lightning turns down the invitation to focus on crime in his neighborhood. In later issues he finally agrees to join.

Dates: Publication: December, 1979

The Black Politician: a journal of current political thought. v. 1, no. 4. The Urban Affairs Institute, Los Angeles., 1970-04

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 31
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The Black Politician was published quarterly (July, October, January, April) by the Urabn Affairs Institute. Longtime California politician Mervyn Dymally was the Editor-in-Chief.

Dates: Publication: 1970-04

Green, Joseph E. "What happened to the Black Panther Party?" Microcosm Publishing, Portland, OR, 2018

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 32
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Zine is presented as Number 10 in the publisher's series: The CIA Makes Science Fiction Uninteresting.

Dates: Publication: 2018

"A transitional program for Black liberation" - adopted by the 23rd National Convention of the Socialist Workers Party. Merit Publishers, New York, 1969

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Content Description From the Collection: This material covers a wide range of issues related to Black history over the last 200 years. While some of the work is scholarly, and takes a retrospective, historical view, much of it is contemprary with the issues discussed. The historical materials includes two published essays by noted American Marxist historian Herbert Aptheker, regarding labor and slavery in the American south: one talks about labor in general, while the other rebuts many of the claims of a 1974 book Aptheker felt...
Dates: 1969

Lyons, Re. Daniel, S.J. "Right or wrong (The Negro today and Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker." Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington, Indiana., 1962

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Content Description From the Collection: This material covers a wide range of issues related to Black history over the last 200 years. While some of the work is scholarly, and takes a retrospective, historical view, much of it is contemprary with the issues discussed. The historical materials includes two published essays by noted American Marxist historian Herbert Aptheker, regarding labor and slavery in the American south: one talks about labor in general, while the other rebuts many of the claims of a 1974 book Aptheker felt...
Dates: Publication: 1962

Winston, Henry. "Negro-White unity." New Outlook Publishers, New York, February, 1967

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Content Description From the Collection: This material covers a wide range of issues related to Black history over the last 200 years. While some of the work is scholarly, and takes a retrospective, historical view, much of it is contemprary with the issues discussed. The historical materials includes two published essays by noted American Marxist historian Herbert Aptheker, regarding labor and slavery in the American south: one talks about labor in general, while the other rebuts many of the claims of a 1974 book Aptheker felt...
Dates: February, 1967