Is Japan the Champion of the Colored Races?: Museum Object and Cultural History
Is Japan the Champion of the Colored Races?: Date: 1938. Published by: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., American, founded 1930. Written by: Theodore Bassett.
The object in the museum catalogue
A pamphlet produced by members of the Harlem Communist Party. The pamphlet is black print on yellowed paper. The front cover features the title: [Is / Japan / the / Champion / of the / Colored / Races?] and a drawing of a military aircraft dropping bombs. The bottom has a black border that contains the text: [The Negro's Stake in Democracy / 5¢ / Issued By The Negro Commission National Committee C.P. U.S.A.] The interior has eight articles totaling forty-seven pages. The back cover is an advertisement for the book [Negro Liberation].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1938
- Published by: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., American, founded 1930
- Written by: Theodore Bassett
- Written by: A. W. Berry
- Written by: Cyril Briggs, Nevisian, 1888 - 1966
- Written by: James W. Ford, American, 1893 - 1957
- Written by: Harry Haywood, American, 1898 - 1985
- Subject of: Harlem Section of the Communist Party, American
- Type: pamphlets
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 7 11/16 x 5 1/8 in. (19.5 x 13 cm)
- Place depicted: Japan, Asia
- Place depicted: China, Asia
- Place depicted: Rome, Italy, Europe
- Place depicted: Berlin, Germany, Europe
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: International affairs
- Topic: Mass media
- Topic: Political organizations
- Topic: Politics
- Topic: Professional organizations
- Topic: World War II
- Object number: 2010.55.9
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Dr. Maurice Jackson and Laura Ginsburg
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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