By: ROGER BARRITEAU

ROGER BARRITEAU
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 18:05:52 +0000

In the 1960ies SBX had beaucoup large posters hanging from clotheslines - Portraits sold well - Freud, Walt Whitman, Beatles, Anais Nin... I bought Jimi Hendrix and Wittgenstein [ I still have them! ] SBX engaged in a very political struggle for the freedom to read and study. In a fit of Anti-Communist - Anti-Russian silliness the Columbus city council passed and ordinance to ban all sales of books from Communist 'Slave labor' countries. SBX responded with a letter in the paper and the direct action of stocking books imported directly from the Soviet Union - books in Math and physics and languages. I have several of those books which are very good and very cheap [ the Soviet Union subsidized a project to translate and distribute some of their best pedagogy ]. One of the managers was very interested in promoting a role of a bookstore in serving scholars. When I was in grad school in philosophy he would put in special orders for me with encouraging inquiries about my progress in philosophy. When I was a Lecturer in Black Studies in the OSU Black Studies Department 1973-78 I gave my list of required texts only to SBX and asked the students to shop there because SBX supported scholars like me.