Flier for an event featuring Angelo Herndon: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

An illustrated mimeograph broadside for an event featuring Angelo Herndon. The broadside is constructed of a thin, light brown paper, and has stylized black text throughout. At the top left on the front is a sketch of two, fisted hands, shackled at the wrists by broken chains. To the right and below are the details of the event: [ANGELO / HERNDON / WORLD-FAMOUS NEGRO YOUTH LEADER / WHO WON FIGHT AGAINST 20 YEAR’S / SENTENCE ON GEORGIA CHAIN-GANG / and / VICE-PRES. YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE / will speak / FRI.OCT.28th PM / at DREAMLAND PALACE / 478 WILLIAM ST. / THE SUBJECT OF ANGELO HERNDON’S TALK WILL BE / “The Negro Youth Faces the Elections” / Auspices: / Milton Herndon Branch-Young Communist League]. At the bottom right of the broadside is an inscription of the location and year of the Herndon event [Buffalo, 1938]. There are no markings on the reverse.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1938
• Created by: Young Communist League, American, founded 1920
• Subject of: Angelo Braxton Herndon, American, 1913 - 1997
• Type: mimeograph copies
• Type: fliers (printed matter)
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 10 7/8 × 8 7/16 in. (27.6 × 21.5 cm)
• Place printed: Buffalo, Erie County, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Race relations
• Topic: U.S. History, 1933-1945
• Object number: 2015.125.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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