Old Jim Crow Has Got to Go!: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Pamphlet consisting of black and white text on yellowed paper and black margins. Illustrated on the cover a fist has punched through a barrier with labels including "personage," "lynching," "segregation," and "poll taxes."

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1941
• 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 7/8 x 5 1/8 in. (20 x 13 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Lynching
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: Political organizations
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Segregation
• Object number: 2010.55.19
• 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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