STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE LESTER JULIUS STOK

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STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE. LESTER, JULIUS, STOKELY. Our Folk Tales. Text by Julius Lester, illustrated throughout by Jennifer Lawson. 39 pages, oblong 4to, original comb-back pictorial red cardstock, with an image the shape of Africa on the front cover in white. an exceptional copy. [Lowndes County, Alabama, circa 1967]

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rare, first edition. Julius Lester was a member of "Snick," [SNCC] as it was known. As such, he traveled around the south collecting these African-American folk songs and tales while he and others from SNCC were trying to register voters. The tales became part of his 1969 book "Black Folk Tales." The title-page has a black panther reading a red colored book to 3 young children. Lester has stated that this was published in-house at SNCC and he believes that less than 1,000 copies were printed.