Lift Every Voice For Victory: Museum Object and Cultural History
Lift Every Voice For Victory: Date: 1942. Published by: New Age Publishers, American. Written by: Claudia Jones, Trinidadian, 1915 - 1964.
The object in the museum catalogue
A pamphlet titled "Lift Every Voice- For Victory." The front cover has a black-and-white photograph of a soldier, Joe Louis, pointing a rifle with bayonet at something in the foreground. The title appears above and below in black and white print.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1942
- Published by: New Age Publishers, American
- Written by: Claudia Jones, Trinidadian, 1915 - 1964
- Subject of: Joe Louis, American, 1914 - 1981
- Type: pamphlets
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 7 11/16 x 5 5/16 in. (19.5 x 13.5 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Mass media
- Topic: Military
- Topic: Politics
- Topic: Race relations
- Topic: U.S. History, 1933-1945
- Topic: World War II
- Object number: 2010.55.7
- 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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