Young Worker Vol. 3 No. 1: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A pamphlet made of black print on yellowed paper. The cover features a black and white photograph of Gus Hall and Jarvis Tyner. The interior consists of twenty-eight pages of articles and photographs and two pages of a political cartoon about Richard Nixon. Content includes local elections and politics, benefit actions for Angela Davis, labor disputes with General Motors, and pro-independence forces in Puerto Rico. The back of the pamphlet features an announcement for the Second National Convention for the Young Workers League.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1972
• Published by: Young Communist League, American, founded 1920
• Subject of: Communist Party of the United States of America, American, founded 1919
• Type: pamphlets
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 10 11/16 x 8 1/4 in. (27.2 x 21 cm)
• Place depicted: United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Decolonization
• Topic: International affairs
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Labor
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: Political organizations
• Object number: 2010.55.48
• 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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