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Memo From Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to President John F. Kennedy, Informing Him of FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover’s Efforts to Link Communists to the First Major Northern City Race Riot of the 1960s by Robert Kennedy

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Title: Memo From Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to President John F. Kennedy, Informing Him of FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover’s Efforts to Link Communists to the First Major Northern City Race Riot of the 1960s
Author: Robert Kennedy
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 30/10/1963. Signed by Robert Kennedy, initialed by Hoover, seen by President Kennedy, and retained in the papers of JFK aide Kenneth O’DonnellOn October 26, 1963, 24 year old Willie Philyaw was stopped by Philadelphia police for allegedly stealing a watch from a local drugstore. Police claimed Philyaw attacked an officer with a knife, but witnesses said he was hobbling away from police on an injured leg. The officer shot and killed him, and a crowd gathered. For North Philadelphia’s black community, the incident confirmed their perception that the police used unnecessary force against them. This incident sparked a riot in North Philadelphia that commenced on the 28th, in which about 500 people broke windows, looted the stores of white merchants along Susquehanna Avenue, and fought against almost 100 riot-equipped police. 23 people were arrested on charges of malicious mischief, disorderly conduct and breach of the peace. Local ministers tried unsuccessfully to persuade the crowds to leave the streets, as activists maintained that this police brutality showed the ineffectiveness of mainstream civil rights groups such as the NAACP. The District Attorney’s office claimed that the killing was justified, clearing the police of all charges. Some sources consider this the first large city racial riot of the 1960s.The longtime head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, was no fan of the civil rights movement to begin with. After trying for a while to come up with evidence that would brand Martin Luther King as a communist or at least influenced by communists, he discovered that King had extramarital affairs, and switched to this topic for further attacks on King. Jacqueline Kennedy recalled that Hoover told President John. F. Kennedy that King tried to arrange a sex party while in the capital for the 1963 March on Washington, and told Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy that King made derogatory comments during the President's funeral. But claims that radicals and demonstrators were communists were still Hoover’s bread and butter. Finding communists responsible when there were civic disturbances would justify crackdowns, which he favored, and tend to discredit the more political response of calming the waters favored by the Justice Department and many local authorities.In the immediate aftermath of the Philyaw riot, the NAACP threatened to ask blacks to boycott the mayoral election being held the following week unless action was taken against the police officer that killed Philyaw. Some Philadelphia civic leaders, including those in the black community who were anxious to disassociate themselves from the riot, speculated that black radicals had infiltrated the neighborhood and stirred up trouble. The FBI investigated the riot and determined that the blame fell on the North Philadelphia Committee for Equal Justice (NPCEJ), an organization in which a small and largely ineffective communist splinter group took some part. The NPCEJ held a meeting demanding justice for Philyaw on the night of the riot, and Philadelphia police claimed that it had operated a sound truck calling for “an eye for an eye”. Some of those attending the meeting admittedly part in the riot. Hoover quickly sought to show that the cause of the riot was communist agitators, pure and simple.Hoover proceeded to accuse Henry Ross of the NPCEJ of instigating the riot, and wrote an inter-office memo to the Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy. Memorandum signed with initials, on his “United States Government Memorandum” letterhead, Washington, October 30, 1963, to Kennedy, detailing with the charges. “On October 26, 1963, Willie Philyaw, Jr., when being questioned by a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, police officer as a suspect in the shoplifting of a North Philadelphia store, allegedly drew a knife. Philyaw was shot and killed by the police officer. As a result of this shooting, a mob formed which was subsequently dispersed by the police. On October 28, 1963, Henry Moss, who described himself as the Vice President of the North Philadelphia Committee for Equal Justice (NPCEJ), utilizing a sound truck, spoke to a crowd regarding the shooting of Philyaw. According to Philadelphia police, Moss described the police account of the shooting as a ""barefaced lie"" and commented ""An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."" Following the speech, the crowd broke windows, looted stores and pelted cars driven by white people. Fifteen individuals were arrested by the police. The NPCEJ was originated and is controlled by the Provisional Organizing Committee for a Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (POC). The POC was formed in August, 1958, by Communist Party members who were dissatisfied with policies of the Party. The POC is made up of hard-core, dedicated and extremist communists striving for international communism. Members of the POC are not connected with the Communist Party, USA. You will be kept advised of additional information which is received concerning this matter.” The memo is date stamped “Office of the Attorney General, Oct. 30, 1963”.Robert Kennedy saw this memo and thought the President should be informed. He sent it on to presidential aide Kenneth O’Donnell with the notation “Send copy to President. Bobby”. After the President saw it, O’Donnell retained it in his own papers. We recently obtained this directly from the O’Donnell family, and it has never before been offered for sale.One wonders what the Kennedys thought of Hoover’s blaming the communists under these circumstances, rather than considering that grievances in the Black community may have played an important role. In any case, this is the first internal FBI-Justice Department-White House document we have had, or can recall seeing. It sheds light on Hoover’s methods of operating, and how Attorney General Kennedy interacted on public business with both him and President Kennedy.Philyaw’s death portended the ways in which issues of police brutality and economic underdevelopment in northern cities would disrupt the vision of racial progress and harmony that had been successfully propagated by the mainstream civil rights movement during the early years of the 1960s. Less than a month later, President Kennedy was dead along with much of the nation’s self-confidence and liberal faith in the inevitability of social progress.Racial rioting really crashed onto the national scene with the Harlem riot in July 1964. Rioting came to fruition in Philadelphia between August 24-30, 1964, when looting and rioting flared up in what came to be called the Columbia Avenue Riots, leaving 2 dead, 339 wounded, and 308 under arrest. There were riots in Chicago and Newark, New Jersey that summer, and the massive Watts riot in Los Angeles followed in 1965. The result was the radicalization of many in the black community and the arising of a counter-force in the white community, one that George Wallace and Richard Nixon would successfully exploit in years to come.

Perversa ultimi seculi militia, oder Kriegs-Belial, der Soldaten-Teufel, nach Gottes Wort und gemeinem Lauff der letzten Zeit beschrieben. Die vierdte Edition, mehr als an 200. Orten verbessert und mit 6 neuen Capiteln ergäntzet, wie auch mit einem vierfachen Register versehen. - BOUND WITH - Tobias conscientiosus, das ist: Theologischer Bericht und Antwort, auff die hochnöthige Gewissens-Frage, was zu halten und zu gewarten sey, wenn einer Stadt Einwohner, den auff dem Lande. gesamlten Raub, von Soldaten und Mercadentern an sich losen, kauffen und partiren. by Mengering, Arnold - THIRTY YEARS WAR

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Title: Perversa ultimi seculi militia, oder Kriegs-Belial, der Soldaten-Teufel, nach Gottes Wort und gemeinem Lauff der letzten Zeit beschrieben. Die vierdte Edition, mehr als an 200. Orten verbessert und mit 6 neuen Capiteln ergäntzet, wie auch mit einem vierfachen Register versehen. - BOUND WITH - Tobias conscientiosus, das ist: Theologischer Bericht und Antwort, auff die hochnöthige Gewissens-Frage, was zu halten und zu gewarten sey, wenn einer Stadt Einwohner, den auff dem Lande. gesamlten Raub, von Soldaten und Mercadentern an sich losen, kauffen und partiren.
Author: Mengering, Arnold - THIRTY YEARS WAR
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Very good; overall toning; small snag to the outer marginal edge in the gutter of the engraved title (inoffensive); blank endpap
Description: Leipzig: J Luderwaldt, 1687 / 1686. Fourth Edition.. Full stiff contemporary vellum with an incorrect date (the date of printing was mis-read by the binder) artfully stamped on to the front cover.. Very good; overall toning; small snag to the outer marginal edge in the gutter of the engraved title (inoffensive); blank endpapers excised.. M Brown. 8vo, I - [30], 744 (correct 734), [40 - index] pp. + engraved title; II - [2 - title], 102 pp. The bookplate of C F Eberhard. "Passionate indignation drove his pen, compelling him to describe the atrocities of the Thirty Years' War in all their horror. Moscherosch's 'Soldatenleben' is foreshadowed here, and thus the form which leads to the 'Simplizissimus' of Grimmelshausen. The old 'Teufelsliteratur' is surpassed in intensity to culminate in a gigantic picture of the century of wars" - Faber du Faur II, #82a & b. Mengering was a Lutheran theologian (1596-1647). The second treatise concerns the issue of property theft during the war years.

[Pictorial Broadside Handbill Touting the Achievements of Rev. William M.S. McCutcheon of Chattanooga] by [African Americana]: [Tennessee]: McCutcheon, William M.S., Rev.

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Title: [Pictorial Broadside Handbill Touting the Achievements of Rev. William M.S. McCutcheon of Chattanooga]
Author: [African Americana]: [Tennessee]: McCutcheon, William M.S., Rev.
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: [N.p., likely Chattanooga, Tn, 1940. Very good.. Photo-illustrated broadside, 8.75 x 5.5 inches, printed on cardstock. Small chip to lower left corner, minor edge wear and rubbing, uneven toning around edges. A very rare handbill touting the achievements of Rev. William M.S. McCutcheon, pastor of the Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The work is illustrated at top center with an oval portrait of McCutcheon, surrounded by some of his memberships and previous service appointments, with more of the same near the bottom. Reverend McCutcheon was variously a member of the Flying Squadron of the Tennessee Quarter Million Campaign, Advisory member of the Executive Board of Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention for the State of Tennessee, Corresponding Secretary for both the Interdenominational Pastors Association of Chattanooga and the Baptist Ministers Conference of Chattanooga, Field Secretary of the Church Extension Board of the National Baptist Convention of the U.S.A., and more. The handbill has the feel of a campaign piece, perhaps for another position within one of the many church and religious organizations for whom McCutcheon served. The only copy in OCLC resides at Appalachian State University. Their Biographical Note reads: "William M. S. McCutcheon was an African American pastor. Additional biographical information could not be found with the exception of a notice in the September 26, 1908 issue of the Hammond Times. It stated that McCutcheon lived in Indianapolis but was in East Chicago with his wife to solicit funds for the Shiloh Mission Home, which supported orphaned African American children and elderly African Americans.

Oktoberlied. With an English Translation by C.F. MacIntyre by Storm, Theodore

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Title: Oktoberlied. With an English Translation by C.F. MacIntyre
Author: Storm, Theodore
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Los Angeles: [Printed for the friends of Fay and Lawrence Clark Powell by the Ward Ritchie Press], 1945 First edition, limited to 200 copies. Designed by Joseph Simon. Cream colored wrappers, stitched at spine. Twelvemo. Woodcut title-page illustration in reddish-brown. A fine copy.

SKETCHES OF JOURNEY.CALIFORNIA by ALRIC, Abbe Henry J.A

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Title: SKETCHES OF JOURNEY.CALIFORNIA
Author: ALRIC, Abbe Henry J.A
Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description: LA, DAWSON, 1971. ONE OF 600 FIRST EDITION FINE. F.

Maine Odyssey, Good Times and Hard Times in Bath 1936-1986 by MARTIN, Kenneth R. and Ralph Linwood SNOW

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Title: Maine Odyssey, Good Times and Hard Times in Bath 1936-1986
Author: MARTIN, Kenneth R. and Ralph Linwood SNOW
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780962040108
Condition: Fine
Description: Bath, Maine: Patten Free Library, 1988. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. First edition. 8vo; vii, [i], 312pp; navy cloth over board, gilt-stamped spine; b&w illustrations in text; unclipped pictorial glazed dust jacket, lacking price; fine in fine dj. ISBN: 0-9620401-0-X. The history of Bath, Maine and the ship building industry.

Holograph Card Signed by Allende, Isabel

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Title: Holograph Card Signed
Author: Allende, Isabel
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: 1997. 5x7 inch card with embroidered patch affixed to front fold. Opens to 10x7 inches. Dated "February 1997." Allende thanks her correspondent for "reading my books with an open heart." Signed by Allende with her flower graphic. Aprx twenty words. With mailing envelop in Allende's hand with her stamped return address. Envelope cleanly opened but missing glued flap. Card in Fine condition. Signed by Author. Unbound. Fine/Not Issued.

JOHN BROWN'S BODY by BENET, Stephen Vincent

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Title: JOHN BROWN'S BODY
Author: BENET, Stephen Vincent
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Spine sunned and soiled. Very Good, lacking the slipcase
Description: New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Hardcover. Spine sunned and soiled. Very Good, lacking the slipcase. John Steuart Curry. Tall quarto (7-1/8" x 11-1/2") bound in full rough scarlet linen with blue leather labels on spine and front cover. Designed by Francis Meynell and printed by William Rudge. Introduction by Douglas Southall Freeman. Copy #380 of 1500 illustrated with oil paintings by John Steuart Curry, his last illustrations for a book, reproduced in offset lithography by Fretz Freres, Zurich, Switzerland. Issued unsigned as the artist died before publication.

Cartwheels by Burlingame, Roger

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Title: Cartwheels
Author: Burlingame, Roger
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
Description: Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. [good sound copy, light shelfwear, small bookseller's rubber-stamped name (Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books, Long Beach, Calif.) at bottom corner of front pastedown; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, with a few small nicks and light soiling, minor creasing, and a tiny hole worn through at the front hinge]. Subtitled (on the jacket only) "The Education of Dan Andrews," this is a novel about a young widower, the headmaster at a boys' boarding school, who has somewhat radical ideas about turning the school into "a vital experimental station in education where the boys would really be taught to live in this modern world." He is encouraged in his plans and dreams by the wife of one of the school's brilliant but erratic faculty members, and finds himself falling in love with her. .

The Development of Hispanic America. by Wilgus, A. Curtis; Professor of Hispanic American History, The George Washington University.

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Title: The Development of Hispanic America.
Author: Wilgus, A. Curtis; Professor of Hispanic American History, The George Washington University.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., (1941). Octavo, gray cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, map illus. endpapers, xviii + 941 pp. Very Good, with darkened spine and edges, light edgewear.

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