Sale 2471 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 29, 2018

246 c   (LITERATURE.) Group of 3 posters produced by Amiri Baraka’s Jihad Productions. Each about 22 x 17 inches; moderate wear including a 5-inch closed tear to “Answers in Progress,” soiling and a puncture to “Where Beauty’s At,” and folds to all three. Newark, NJ: Jihad Productions, 1969 [600/900] The poet LeRoi Jones (soon to become Amiri Baraka) founded Jihad Productions in 1967 to release music and poetry.This lot includes three rare Jihad posters: Answers in Progress, featuring a 1967 Baraka poem, printed in 1969 * Where Beauty’s At, featuring a Clarence Reed poem, 1969 * Black Warrior’s Pledge, featuring text by Balozi Zayd, 1969. with —an illustrated 1994 poster featuring “Heathens” and other recent poems by Baraka, from the Heaven Poster Series #9, signed by Baraka:“A Baraka 95 Free Mumia Abu Jamal!” 10 x 22 inches. 247 c   (LITERATURE.) Group relating to Countee Cullen. 23 items, various sizes and conditions, in one folder. Vp, 1929-88 [500/750] Ephemera relating to the great poet of the Harlem Renaissance, including: Program for a reading he did at the Urban League, 19 May [1929] * Promotional card for his anthology OnThese I Stand *Typed Note Signed by Cullen to a Mrs. Christy, acknowledging her fan mail, 3 November 1936 * Photostat of his 1946 death certificate * Information sheet on the Countee Cullen Memorial Foundation * 7 letters to or from his widow Ida Cullen Cooper regarding his literary estate, 1966-88, with 3 of her identification cards * and 8 other pieces of modern ephemera. 246