The Negro People in the Struggle for Peace and Freedom: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A pamphlet written by Benjamin J. Davis. The front cover contains white text on a gray background and a picture of Davis in the bottom left. The interior consists of twenty-three pages of a report to the 15th convention of the communist party. The back cover features an advertisement for New Century Publishers.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1951
• Published by: New Century Publishers, American
• Written by: Benjamin Jefferson Davis Jr., American, 1903 - 1964
• Subject of: Communist Party of the United States of America, American, founded 1919
• Type: pamphlets
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 7 11/16 x 5 1/8 in. (19.5 x 13 cm)
• Place made: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: Political organizations
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: U.S. History, 1945-1953
• Object number: 2010.55.12
• 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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