[CIVIL RIGHTS]. A group of 3 pamphlets, including:
Sale 1118 - African Americana
Feb 28, 2023
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Lot Description
[CIVIL RIGHTS]. A group of 3 pamphlets, including:
NKRUMAH, Kwame (1909-1972). The Spectre of Black Power. London: Palaf Publications Limited, [1968]. Nkrumah, the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, wrote this publication after a visit by Kwame Ture (nee Stokely Carmichael). He discusses the Watts Riots, Malcolm X, and the wider Black Power struggle. -- ABERNATHY, Ralph (1926-1990), John J. ABT (1904-1991), Paul E. MILLER, and Ossie DAVIS (1917-2005). On Trial: Angela Davis or America? New York: Angela Davis Legal Defense Fund, [1971]. -- SOYINKA, Wole (b. 1934). The Negro Ensemble Company presents Kongi's Harvest. New York: Negro Ensemble Company, St. Mark's Playhouse, [1968]. A playbill for a 1968 production of "Kongi's Harvest" by Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka who was imprisoned at the time of publication. Soyinka would be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Kongi's Harvest, a play about an African dictator trying to modernize, debuted in 1966 in Dakar, Senegal, and would be made into a film directed by Ossie Davis. -- Together, 3 pamphlets, 8vo, all FIRST EDITIONS, condition fine, occasional minor toning, vertical soft folds to the playbill and Angela Davis booklets.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Property from a 35-Year Collection from the Southern United States
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