1979 BLACK UNITED FRONT. Rare First Imprint of Important Civil Rights Organization.

Very rare 1978 first publication of the Black United Front.

From the inside panel:

"When we gathered at the home of Dr. Vernal Cave on the sultry evening of July 17, 1978, angry over the unwarranted killing of Arthur Miller by the New York City Police Department and the savage beating of Victor Rhodes by the Hasidim Jews, coming hard on the heels of the jury's acquittal of Robert Torsney, who had a year before killed 15 year old Randolph Evans and frustrated over the general powerlessness of people of African descent in New York, a few of us sensed that we were summoned together to participate in the molding of history.

This publication represents the first attempt to document the series of events that led to the development of the Black Movement in Brooklyn in the late 1970's, and the eventual founding of the Black United Front in Metropolitan New York . . . etc."

Signed Herbert Daughtry, Chairman of the Metropolitan Area Black United Front.

Extensively illustrated, including Malcolm X, extensive photographs of various protest marches, quote from Marcus Garvey, account of the murders of Arthur Miller, Victor Rhodes, a History of the Bloody Summer of '78, etc., etc., 

Jerry Byron and Jitu Weusi [eds]. Haki and Jerry Byron [Photog.]. Black United Front. Defend or Die. Designed by the Anti-Imperialist Cultural Union of New York. Published, Black United Front. 1979. First Edition. 44pp + Wraps. 

Good +, faint stain on front top left of cover, small chip at spine, wraps a bit handled. Small stain at head of textblock for first 20 pages, then side for the remainder. Four small pen strokes in lower corner of rear wraps. The article on Bruce Wright - The People's Judge is inscribed by someone connected with the movement, but we cannot negotiate the inscription. 

Material from the United Black Front very scarce. At auction, a broadside of the period offered at $800 - $1200 and a smaller broadside at $200 - $300 with no copies of the present we can trace, and it a much more substantial document. No copies traced in worldcat.