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(CIVIL RIGHTS— ROBINSON, JACKIE.)
Negro Heroes Summer Issue
No. 2.
32 pages, color illustration in comic book format. Paper lightly and evenly toned;
delicate paper slightly parted at the foot of the spine, still
AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY OF A
FRAGILE PUBLICATION
.
Np, Parents Magazine, [1948]
[600/800]
It was no coincidence that Jackie Robinson was on the cover of this, the second issue of Negro Heroes.
Robinson, thanks to Dodgers’ General Manager Branch Rickey had not only broken the color barrier
in professional baseball, but was voted rookie of the year. The brief biography format of the Negro
Heroes magazine was the perfect mode to inform and uplift African American children as well as
adults. In addition to obvious “heroes” like Robinson and Booker T. Washington, the comic featured
lesser known figures like Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander (1898-1989) the first African American
woman to receive a PhD in the United States. The rear cover is entirely devoted to the Urban League,
who no doubt worked with the publisher on the content.
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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) STUDENTS FOR DEMOCRATIC ACTION.
The Big
Little Person’s Book of Songs For Democratic Action.
113, [4], pages. Small squar-
ish 12mo, original mimeographed covers and contents.
Washington, D.C., 1951
[300/400]
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THIS BOOK OF PROTEST SONGS
,
put together by the Students for
Democratic Action. SDA was founded in 1948 and lasted until about 1952 or 53, when it was
absorbed into the NSA (National Student Association) and CORE. The songs are quite varied and
include everything from old union songs to Follow the Drinking Gourd and John Brown’s Body; with
a bunch of parodies on Joe McCarthy who was in full sway with the HUAC hearings.
QUITE
SCARCE
.
ONLY ONE COPY LOCATED BY OCLC
,
AT CALIFORNIA STATE
.
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