The Negro Worker Vol. 4 No. 5: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A pamphlet of The Negro Worker, No. 5, Vol. 4. The front cover features black print on blue paper. At center, there is a black and white photograph of two hands shaking. The interior consists of thirty-two pages of text and photographs. The back cover has an image of a man breaking a chain.

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 15/16 x 5 7/8 in. (20.2 x 15 cm)
• Place depicted: Africa
• Place depicted: Japan, Asia
• Place depicted: Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, Africa
• Place depicted: Ethiopia, Africa
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Colonialism
• Topic: Decolonization
• Topic: International affairs
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Political organizations
• Topic: Politics
• Object number: 2010.55.34
• 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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