Saunders, John, fl. 1945 The Struggle for Negro Equality

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GLC#
GLC09643.06-View header record
Type
Books & pamphlets
Date
February 1945
Author/Creator
Saunders, John, fl. 1945
Title
The Struggle for Negro Equality
Place Written
New York, New York
Pagination
1 v. : 47 p. : Height: 20.7 cm, Width: 13.6 cm
Primary time period
1945 to the Present
Sub-Era
The Civil Rights Movement

This pamphlet provides a program and plan for gaining civil rights through the socialist agenda. It also reprints three articles from The Militant, two of which concern riots in Detroit and Harlem. The third is an article on Trotsky, and his beliefs. The article reprints are: "The Anti-Negro Terror in Detroit, Statement by the National Committee, Socialist Workers Party," printed in The Militant, July 3, 1943. "The Harlem Outbreak A Protest Against Jim Crow" from The Militant, Aug.7, Aug. 14, Sept. 4, 1943. Trotsky and "The American Negro Struggle" from The Militant, Aug. 15, 1942. The pamphlet is written by long time editor and labor activist George Breitman (Albert Parkers, birth name) and fellow Trotskyist Arthur Burch (John Saunders, birth name).

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