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Negro History Week 1953 by Communist Party

This small but comprehensive pamphlet prepared by the Educational Department, New York State Communist Party, is titled “Negro History Week 1953, Peace, Equality,” and sold for 25 cents. The articles are taken from various places, copied in the original typeface, running the gamut from articles on “Paul Robeson and W.E.B. DuBois,” “White Chauvinism and Negro Bourgeois Nationalism,” “Africa Fights for Peace and Freedom” “Negroes in the Arts Give Wings to Our Culture,” and much more. The front page explains that “… The Party has devoted its most determined efforts to strengthening the fight of the negro people for jobs, union membership, … against lynching and the whole monstrous system of Jim Crow. Not the least of the Party’s work in this general respect has been its fight to abolish the rank discrimination against Negroes in sports, the theater, and literature.”

Date

1953

Location

New York

Source

Educational Department, New York State Communist Party

Media Type

Pamphlet