The Road to Negro Liberation: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A pamphlet titled: [The Road To Negro Liberation]. The cover features red print on discolored paper. The title stretches throughout the center. Additional text reads: [Harry Haywood / 10¢ / Report to the Eighth Convention of the Communist Party of the U.S.A.]. There is also a hammer and sickle in the upper right edge. The interior contains sixty-three pages of text. The back cover features an advertisement for the Negro Liberator.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1934
• Published by: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., American, founded 1930
• Written by: Harry Haywood, American, 1898 - 1985
• Subject of: Communist Party of the United States of America, American, founded 1919
• Type: pamphlets
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 7 1/16 x 4 15/16 in. (18 x 12.5 cm)
• Place depicted: Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: Political organizations
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: U.S. History, 1933-1945
• Object number: 2010.55.22
• 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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