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Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 400 pp. Photos. Jacket has small tear at rear, repaired with tape. A journey through the contemporary South, revisiting the places where people made their stands for equality.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First Edition. Important debut journal from the Society of Umbra, or Umbra Writers' Workshop. Umbra began in the early 1960s as a community of Black writers and artists that met in New York City's Lower East Side. Considered to precede and "presage" the Black Arts Movement, the group shared many of the same concerns (and members), considering the political implications of a Black stance towards arts and letters. From this first issue's foreword: "UMBRA is not another haphazard 'little literary' publication. UMBRA has a definite orientations: 1) the experience of being Negro, especially in America: and 2) that quality of human awareness often termed 'social consciousness.'" UMBRA would produce just five issues total over twice as many years, with the group splintering and separating many times over that decade. Membership and participation would include many of the important Black thinkers and creators of the time: Archie Shepp, Lorenzo Thomas, Ishmael Reed, Askia Toure, Cecil Taylor, David Henderson, Steve Cannon, and more. Good condition. Creased corners to front wrap; spine starting at staples but still attached with lowest 2" split neatly below bottom staple; rear wrap soiled and toned; contents clean. Saddle-stapled in illustrated card wraps. 6-7/8 x 8-1/2. 48pp. Cover by Tom Feelings (illustratore).…