RARE WORLD WAR II-ERA HANDBILL: "A MESSAGE TO THE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC PARTIES FROM THE NEGROES OF AMERICA," 1944
ALEXANDER, Sadie T.M., JACKSON, Maynard, HARDIN, Walter, and WHITE, Walter. Handbill ["A Message to the Republican and Democratic Parties from the Negroes of America"]. New York, 1944.
Scarce 1944 handbill from 25 major African American organizations including fraternities, churches, labor organizations, and social action groups, informing the American political parties of the state of the African American electorate and the issues deemed most central to African American voters including fair elections, equal employment, military desegregation, and the importance of ending World War II with a plan to end racism and imperialism. $450.
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