The Jobless Negro: Museum Object and Cultural History
The Jobless Negro: Date: 1933. Published by: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., American, founded 1930. Written by: Elizabeth Lawson, American.
The object in the museum catalogue
A pamphlet written by Elizabeth Lawson. The front cover of the pamphlet is black print on yellowed paper. Text at the top reads: [The Jobless Negro / by Elizabeth Lawson / Price 1¢]. Below the text is a black and white photograph of a man with his fist in the air. The pamphlet consists of sixteen pages of text, including the back cover. The back cover also contains publication information and a stamp for the Workers Book Shop.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1933
- Published by: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., American, founded 1930
- Written by: Elizabeth Lawson, American
- Type: pamphlets
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 6 5/16 x 4 3/4 in. (16 x 12 cm)
- Place made: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Labor
- Topic: Mass media
- Topic: Politics
- Topic: Race discrimination
- Topic: U.S. History, 1933-1945
- Object number: 2010.55.21
- 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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