Search Results: Titles starting with T from Martin Hartzold

Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., (1971). First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8 1/2" x 5 3/4." 304pp. Light gray cloth over boards. Silver title lettering to spine. In original photo-illustrated dust jacket, unclipped ($6.95). Jacket with a bit of wrinkling at spine ends. Previous penciled price to first endpage a bit messily erased. Else sound, clean, unmarked. Very good in a very good jacket. An uncommon first edition copy, in a stunningly designed dust jacket by SNCC photographer Bobby Fletcher, of Joyce Ladner's landmark work of Black feminist sociology centered on her extensive interviews with teenage girls residing in St. Louis' beleaguered Pruitt-Igoe housing project from 1964-1968. Born in rural Palmer's Crossing, Mississippi (outside Hattiesburg), Ladner joined the efforts of the SNCC in Mississippi in the early 1960's while a student at Jackson State University and was promptly expelled for participating in campus sit-in demonstrations. She enrolled at… Read More

[St. Louis County, Missouri], (ca. 1979-1983). About 250 color film slides in 2" square card mounts (usually with Kodak branding). Some scattered notations and date stamps to mounts. All about very good or better. A substantial archive of more than 250 film slides documenting classrooms, athletics, extra-curricular activites, etc... of Normandy High School in North St. Louis County from about 1979-1983. A once-thriving, majority-Black school district, Normandy saw massive corporate flight and a loss of manufacturing jobs obliterate its tax base in the years since these images were captured. This economic collapse, coupled with the draconian Reagan-era cuts in the Federal education budget, sent the district on a rapid decline that culminated in a state takeover and loss of its accreditation in 2015, the year after it graduated a student named Michael Brown. A poignant and nostalgic glimpse at an important north St. Louis institution. Acquired from a local estate, we suspect they were part of… Read More