Introduction

Everett LeRoi Jones

Paul Breman and Arna W. Bontemps

Broadside Press

Third World Press

American Small Presses

The Visual Arts and Serial Publications

Syracuse University Library – Special Collections Research Center

Broadside Press

Founded in Detroit in 1965 by poet and reference librarian Dudley Randall (1914–2000), Broadside Press, according to its Web site, “has promoted the written word as a vital art form intimately related to self-determination, and used the publishing of literature as a vehicle for building communities and promoting cultural critique.” The mission of Broadside Press, a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization, continues through a wide variety of programs and events that foster the creation and enjoyment of literature.