"Right to Work" Laws - A Trap for America's Minorities: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A pamphlet made of blue and black ink on yellowed paper. The entire pamphlet is split down the middle; the left side is in English and the right in Spanish. On the cover, at center left is a black and white photograph of workers striking. At center right is a black and white photograph of a family sitting on the front porch gazing out. Above the left is the title ["Right to Work" Laws"]. Above the right is the title in Spanish ["El Derucho a Trabajar"]. The interior consists of twenty pages of text and photographs. The back of the pamphlet is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: n.d.
• Published by: A. Philip Randolph Institute, American, founded 1965
• Written by: Cesar E. Chavez, American, 1927 - 1993
• Written by: Bayard Rustin, American, 1912 - 1987
• Subject of: AFL-CIO, American, founded 1955
• Type: pamphlets
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 9 x 5 15/16 in. (22.8 x 15.1 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Labor
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: Multilingual communication
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: Race relations
• Object number: 2010.55.49
• 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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