Life Begins with Freedom: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A pamphlet written by Henry Winston. The front cover contains black print on yellowed paper. Text on the cover reads: [Life Begins With Freedom / By Henry Winston / 5¢]. Below the title, there is a black and white photograph of Winston. A handwritten inscription in blue ink reads: [1937]. The interior consists of thirty-nine pages of text and a few photographs. The back of the pamphlet features an advertisement for New Age Publishers.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1937
• Published by: New Age Publishers, American
• Written by: Henry Winston, American, 1911 - 1986
• Subject of: Communist Party of the United States of America, American, founded 1919
• Type: pamphlets
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 7 1/2 x 5 1/8 in. (19 x 13 cm)
• Place depicted: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Freedom
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: Political organizations
• Topic: Politics
• Object number: 2010.55.14
• 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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