[Handbill or Small Broadside, Caption Title]: The Nhu Frontier

Published by Progressive Labor [Movement, New York, 1963

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Handbill or small broadside. Measuring 8" x 10½". Tiny date inked in bottom corner, old horizontal fold, a bit of toning and offsetting, very good or better. A handbill strongly against U.S. involvement in South Vietnam, prepared in advance of Tr?n L? Xuân (a.k.a. Madame Nhu) visiting the United States. According to the author of the handbill, she is coming to garner "popular support for fascism," speaking at the Waldorf Astoria. Tr?n spoke at the Waldorf Astoria on Wednesday, October 9, 1963, and this handbill invites readers to a protest the policies "of Madame Nhu and the Kennedys." The publisher gives two New York City addresses: 336 Lenox Ave. (known as the "Harlem Progressive Labor Club") and 227 E. 3rd St. Probably the most well-known member of the Progressive Labor Movement is William Epton, an African-American man described in his obituary in *The New York Times* as "a Maoist agitator who made a fiery street-corner speech during the Harlem riots of the summer of 1964 and as a result became the first person convicted of criminal anarchy since the Red Scare of 1919." Uncommon.…

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Title
[Handbill or Small Broadside, Caption Title]: The Nhu Frontier
Author
Progressive Labor [Movement]
Publisher
Progressive Labor [Movement, New York
Publication year
1963
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Unbound
Edition
1st Edition

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