The Negro Worker Vol. 2 No. 6: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A black ink on yellowed paper pamphlet. At center on the front cover there is a black and white photograph of a white colonial governor with four African tribal chiefs with the caption [Colonial Governor and Native Chiefs - The King's African "Monkeys"]. Below the caption in large, bold text is [DOWN WITH THE WHITE IMPERIALISTS / AND THEIR BLACK AGENTS! / LONG LIVE THE FREEDOM OF AFRICA / AND THE COLONIES!]. The interior consists of thirty-one pages of articles and photographs. The back cover has an illustration of a man over a globe breaking chains.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1932
• Published by: The Negro Worker, 1928 - 1937
• Edited by: George Padmore, Trinidadian, 1903 - 1959
• Subject of: Communist International, 1919 - 1943
• Type: pamphlets
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 8 7/8 x 6 5/16 in. (22.5 x 16 cm)
• Place depicted: South Africa, Africa
• Place made: Hamburg, Germany, Europe
• Place depicted: Guyana, Caribbean, South America
• Place depicted: Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean, South America
• Place depicted: Jamaica, Caribbean, North and Central America
• Cultural Place: England, Europe
• Place depicted: Liberia, West Africa, Africa
• Place depicted: Kenya, Africa
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Colonialism
• Topic: Decolonization
• Topic: International affairs
• Topic: Labor
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Political organizations
• Object number: 2010.55.6
• 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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