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Cafe Society Menu [first racially integrated nightclub in New York City]New York: np, [ca. 1940s]. Saddle stapled, with one missing staple and another loose staple, with tasseled blue string adorning the spine. Offset. 8pp. 11 ¾ x 8 ½ in. Toning and foxing on wraps, interiors clean; clean example.Dinner and drink menu for the first racially integrated nightclub in New York City, perhaps the country. Advertised as “the wrong place for the right people,” the nightclub opened in 1938 and featured performances by Sarah Vaughan, Big Joe Turner, Albert Ammons, Lena Horne, Ruth Brown, Pearl Bailey, and Billie Holiday, who first performed “Strange Fruit” there.Holiday’s performance was oddly and intensely shaped by the well-meaning owner, manager, and founder Barney Josephson, who insisted the set end with “Strange Fruit,” without an encore or restaurant service following it, so that the audience could “sit and think with it.” This was emblematic of his intentions for the club: a vexed affront on rich society, mocking the racist socialites who frequented segregated nightclubs such as the Cotton Club, by way of murals done by Anton Refregier and other Village artists with political, ironic, and experimental proclivities. By 1948, Josephson’s brother was subpoenaed by the House of Un-American Committee. Anti-communist harassment and suppression would eventually bring New York’s first integrated nightclub to close bringing attacks on the nightclub to close.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

Cafe Society Menu [first racially integrated nightclub in New York City]

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a love Supreme: Student-Community African-American Libation CeremonyOakland: Soul Student Advisory Council, 1968. Offset. 11 x 8 1/2 in. Edges bumped, slight cockling.Flyer for a celebration in honor of the first graduating class of Merritt College’s African-American Studies Program, one of the first such programs in America.In 1963, in their first organizing project, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale led a group of Merritt College students to demand a Black history course. Newton and Seale subsequently formed the Soul Student Advisory Council — a direct precursor to the Black Panther Party — in 1966 to push for the development of a Black Studies curricula. While the program would not gain official accreditation from the Department of Education until 1970, the flyer dates the founding of the Merritt College program to at least one year before San Francisco State became the first American university to gain official accreditation for its program. That the curriculum for Merritt College’s program was developed by the precursor organization to The Black Panther Party demonstrates the radical political milieu from which Black Studies university programs originate.A remarkable survival, this flyer is an artifact from the birth of The Black Panther Party and the development of Black Studies as an academic discipline —&nbsp;as well as evidence of the mutually flowing influence between the Black avant-garde and political vanguard.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

[Black Panthers] — a love Supreme: Student-Community African-American Libation Ceremony

a love Supreme: Student-Community African-American Libation CeremonyOakland: Soul Student Advisory Council, 1968. Offset. 11 x 8 1/2 in. A nearly pristine copy on beige laid paper, with minor cockling, barely perceptible browning to outer margins, and a tiny smudge to the left margin.Flyer for a celebration in honor of the first graduating class of Merritt College’s African-American Studies Program, one of the first such programs in America.In 1963, in their first organizing project, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale led a group of Merritt College students to demand a Black history course. Newton and Seale subsequently formed the Soul Student Advisory Council — a direct precursor to the Black Panther Party — in 1966 to push for the development of a Black Studies curricula. While the program would not gain official accreditation from the Department of Education until 1970, the flyer dates the founding of the Merritt College program to at least one year before San Francisco State became the first American university to gain official accreditation for its program. That the curriculum for Merritt College’s program was developed by the precursor organization to The Black Panther Party demonstrates the radical political milieu from which Black Studies university programs originate.A remarkable survival, this flyer is an artifact from the birth of The Black Panther Party and the development of Black Studies as an academic discipline — as well as evidence of the mutually flowing influence between the Black avant-garde and political vanguard.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual item.

[Black Panthers] — a love Supreme; another copy

New Year’s Eve Party with Cecil Taylor Quartet and Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon QuartetNew York: The Living Theatre, 1962. Offset. 8 ½ x 14 in. Slight loss to corners.Flyer promoting a 1962 New Year’s Eve Party benefit concert for the Renaissance House, The Living Theatre, and the Provincetown Review, featuring the Cecil Taylor Quartet and the Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet at the Renaissance House in New York.The party came at a turning point in the careers of many involved. A month before the performance, Taylor had recorded his landmark live album Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come with Sunny Murray and Jimmy Lyons, today regarded as one of the greatest live recordings in jazz history; Shepp had released his debut album only three months earlier, with the Savoy LP Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet; while The Living Theatre had just began their production of Bertolt Brecht’s “Man is Man,” which would tour the world and help establish The Living Theatre as the premiere avant-garde theater company in the world. Additionally, the Renaissance House, an avant-garde performance venue in New York, had presented Allan Kaprow’s happening The Courtyard earlier in the year, and the Provincetown Review, an influential alternative literary journal, had gained increased influence and notoriety following editor Bill Ward’s recent obscenity arrest. Finally, this flyer is a rare document of overlap between the Black and white New York avant-gardes, which historically have often been rigorously segregated.Surely the place to be at in New York on New Years Eve in 1962.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual items.

New Year’s Eve Party with Cecil Taylor Quartet and Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet

Sun Ra and his Solar Astro-Infinity ArkestraChicago: El Saturn Research, ca. 1980s. Offset. 11 x 14 in. Near fine.Bright yellow promotional flyer from El Saturn Records collaging promo images of Sun Ra and the Arkestra with effusive press review blurbs. On verso is a list of Sun Ra titles available from El Saturn with order instructions.Condition as described in catalogue note. For further information on the condition of this lot please email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:info@boo-hooray.com">info@boo-hooray.com</a>. All lots are sold on an "as is" basis at the time of sale. Images form a part of the condition description for each lot, though images online may represent hues and shades which differ from the actual items.

Cafe Society Menu [first racially integrated nightclub in New York City]

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