Civil Rights Movement from Royal Books, Inc.

N.p.: N.p., 1967. Vintage script for an unproduced musical play. A musical drama about a tentative friendship between two men-one white, one Black-during the Civil Rights Movement. Black titled Hart wrappers. Title page present, copyrighted 1967, with credit for playwright Paul Gorrin. 56 leaves, with last page of text numbered 3-5-8. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages and… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1966. Two vintage press photographs relating to Civil Rights protests, including one showing Florida A&M University (FAMU) student protesters in the days leading up to the important "Tallahassee Rape Case," and one showing police arresting a young woman during a protest in Long Island. One photograph with a May 5, 1959, date stamp and a newspaper clipping… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1972. Original Sam Norkin pen and ink illustration of Robert Guillaume, Patti Jo, and Art Wallace in the 1972 revival of the musical play, circa 1972. The revival of the play premiered on December 27, 1972 at the Billy Rose Theatre and played for 14 performances, closing early on January 7, 1973. Sam Norkin was a… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1953. Collection of 15 vintage reference and studio still photographs from the controversial and short-lived 1951-1953 television sitcom. Included in the set are five studio still photographs and ten reference photographs. 14 with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso, and all 15 with provenance stamps, including five representing the Cleveland Press. Based on the popular… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Sawyer Press, 1967. Vintage social awareness poster by white artist Ron Cobb. A left-wing call for civil unrest in the US during 1966 and 1967, a movement that resulted in more than 150 documented race riots that took place during the summer of 1967, a wave that led President Lyndon B. Johnson to establish the National… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Claude Brown's successful 1965 autobiographical novel, which follows a young African American boy coming of age in Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. Set in Harlem. Gold untitled wrappers. Title page present, undated, with credits for screenwriter Arnold Federbush and author Claude Brown.… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1980. Draft script for an unproduced play. A musical dramatization of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lyricist John Briley was best known for the 1982 musical "Gandhi," for which Briley won an Academy Award. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" (Robert Altman,… Read more about this item

N.p.: American International Pictures [AIP], 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film. With an American International Pictures stamp to the verso, alongside a cello-taped mimeograph snipe. Featuring a "black militant" being forcibly removed from the room by actor Larry Hagman, while Harlene Jones and Judy Pace look on. A lighthearted comedy and a movie that… Read more about this item