The Road to Liberation for the Negro People: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A pamphlet titled: [The Road to Liberation for the Negro People]. The front cover consists of black print on yellowed paper. At top, there is a drawing of two men walking a path up a hill towards the sun. The title and a list of communist party leaders fills the rest of the cover. [1¢] is printed in the bottom right corner. The interior has fifteen pages of text and a tear away section to fill out and join the Communist Party. The back cover has a subscription form for the Daily Worker.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1937
• Published by: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., American, founded 1930
• Subject of: A. W. Berry
• Subject of: William L. Patterson, American, 1891 - 1980
• Subject of: Benjamin Jefferson Davis Jr., American, 1903 - 1964
• Subject of: Harry Haywood, American, 1898 - 1985
• Subject of: Henry Winston, American, 1911 - 1986
• Subject of: James W. Ford, American, 1893 - 1957
• Subject of: Williana Burroughs, American, 1882 - 1945
• Type: pamphlets
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 7 5/16 x 5 1/8 in. (18.5 x 13 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: Political organizations
• Topic: Politics
• Object number: 2010.55.24
• 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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