Young Worker Vol. 3 No. 2: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A pamphlet made of black ink on a white paper. The front cover has black ink on a green cover and features a black and white photograph of demonstrators in New York protesting the Vietnam War. The interior consists of twenty-eight pages of text and photographs. The back of the pamphlet has a black and white photograph of protestors.

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 1/16 in. (27.2 x 20.5 cm)
• Place depicted: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Viet Nam, Asia
• Topic: African American
• Topic: International affairs
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: Political organizations
• Topic: Politics
• Topic: U.S. History, 1969-2001
• Topic: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
• Object number: 2010.55.47
• 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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