The Negro Worker Vol. 4 No. 2: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A pamphlet with black print on green paper. On the center of the front cover there is a black and white photograph of workers in a confrontation with a police officer with following caption, "Negro workers in struggle with police in U.S.A." The interior consists of thirty-two pages of text and photographs. The back cover features a drawing of a man breaking a chain over a globe.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1934
• Published by: The Negro Worker, 1928 - 1937
• Edited by: Charles Woodson
• Subject of: Communist International, 1919 - 1943
• Type: pamphlets
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 7 7/8 x 5 11/16 in. (20 x 14.5 cm)
• Place depicted: South Africa, Africa
• Place depicted: Liberia, West Africa, Africa
• Place depicted: Alabama, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa
• Place depicted: Togo, West Africa, Africa
• Place depicted: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa, Africa
• Place depicted: Suriname, Caribbean, South America
• Place depicted: Belgium, Europe
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Colonialism
• Topic: Decolonization
• Topic: Dutch colonialism
• Topic: International affairs
• Topic: Labor
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: Political organizations
• Object number: 2010.55.35
• 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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