Extremely important Black Power Civil Rights booklet.

Overall Excellent condition with neatly printed notation (reading “Dan - would like to carry this on lit list”) at top of cover as seen.

From Wikipedia:

“Lester's 1966 essay "The Angry Children of Malcolm X," is considered one of the definitive African-American statements of its era.[11] As his reputation grew, Lester wrote Look Out, Whitey! Black Power's Gon' Get Your Mama! (Dial, 1968), which he characterized as the "first book about the black power movement by someone inside the black power movement".

THIS IS THE IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND 1966 FIRST EDITION OF “The Angry Children of Malcolm X,” the historic seminal essay by Julius Lester printed by The Southern Student Organizing Committee of Nashville, Tennessee.

There were second and third printings between 1967 and 1970 but this is the impossible to find original 1966 printing, with 1966 copyright. Also, note that the cover of this edition is illustrated (with Statue of Liberty overseeing urban housing scene) and is COMPLETELY different from the later printings. Later printings, which have NO illustration on cover, are sometimes represented as first printing originals by accident because the original first edition produced by SOCN is just not seen (and once an error is made describing it is sometimes copied in good faith by others).

Look at all the editions you can find in rare book data bases and sales archives: you are going to have a VERY hard time finding another. I know others exist because this is a very famous and important and historically significant volume. Yet I just can’t find another in the marketplace, or in past sales results anywhere (only later printings, sometimes misidentified). I suspect it is in some advanced and institutional collections.

Yellow wraps with illustration. 11” x 8.5”. Copyright 1966. Published by Southern Student Organizing Committee of Nashville, Tennessee.

With reference to value, I had no choice but to make up the price. I don’t think I could find another at any price (but we all know how that is…I could no sooner type these words and another copy will surface!) In any event, it is a very important rarity and I have seen a later printing (described as a first printing but at same time acknowledging the existence of and referencing the SSOC edition) offered by a highly respected rare book dealer for 450.

If you have interest but think the price is too high, feel free to make an offer.