Negro Digest: A Magazine of Negro Comment Vol, IV, No. 11, September 1946

Published by Negro Digest Publishing Company, Chicago, 1946

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Vol. IV, No. 11. Small octavo. 98pp. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers with rubbing and wear, very good or a bit better. A single issue from this important and influential digest, which was the foundation of the Johnson Publishing empire. In addition to excerpting articles by and about African-Americans from other publications, there was also much original content written expressly for the magazine. This issue prints "Sidney Hillman's Last Message to Negroes"; a roundtable discussing the question "Is Labor or Business Fairer To The Negro?"; "The Rape of Justice" by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (condensed from *Everybody's Digest*); "How I Beat Jim Crow" by Chatwood Hall (pen name of African-American journalist Homer Smith, Jr.); "Iron Men of Baseball," an article on the Negro league by George C. Morse; "My Father Had 16 Wives" by Okechukwu Ikejian (condensed from *Magazine Digest*); "Jim Crow on the Band Stand" by African-American band leader Phil Moore; "African Beauty Parlor" by Ernest Henry Shrenzel (condensed from *Fascination*); "He Lost 10,000 Years," by Allen Rankin (about African-American artist Bill Traylor, condensed from *Colliers*); "How I Discovered Marian Anderson" by Sol Hurok with Ruth Goode (condensed from their book *Impresario*); and a condensation from the book *Trumpet to the World* by Mark Harris, among other material. Early issues are uncommon.

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Title
Negro Digest: A Magazine of Negro Comment Vol, IV, No. 11, September 1946
Author
(HILLMAN, Sidney, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Sol Hurok, Mark Harris, Homer Smith, Jr., and others). John H. Johnson, edited by
Publisher
Negro Digest Publishing Company, Chicago
Publication year
1946
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Softcover
Edition
1st Edition

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