1948 "The Meaning of Negro History" for Negro History Week, graphic folded insert for IWO Fraternal Outlook magazine by Herb Aptheker
- Description:
- 1948 Printed supplement to Fraternal Outlook for Negro History Week by historian Herb Aptheker "The Meaning of Negro History: fully illustrated with charts and graphics detailing Black racial oppression and accomplishments." A piece by Aptheker called "The Facts of Negro Life in the United States" details "hush lynching." Another piece by Aptheker is "The Causes of Negro Oppression." Aptheker is already working with W.E. B. Du Bois on editing and publishing Du Bois' extensive oeuvre and the IWO editorial calls for backing the 1947 NAACP petition to the U.N. on human rights abuses against the Black community (Du Bois was its editor). A short piece about the IWO notes that it is the only interracial fraternal benefits society, explaining that "the International Workers Order is a federation of national group societies and General Lodges embracing Negro and white members." Albert E Kahn (JPFO President) and Vito Magli (Garibaldi Society) briefly extend greetings in an article titled "The National Groups and the Negro People" and Jesus Colon, head of the Cervantes Society briefly writes about Yankee Imperialism uniting Latin Americans, including those who are Black, with those in the U.S. This text uses the term ‘Negro’ and/or 'Negro Labor' to refer to the concerted efforts made primarily in the 1920s-1940s to fight racial discrimination so as to ensure the fair employment of Black people, in union and other jobs including those in the private sector, civil service, as well as advocacy for the full integration of Black people into the armed services. Black unemployment and under employment were extremely high due to racial barriers. While the term ‘Negro’ might be read as pejorative today, the term was then used in a positive regard, including by Black leftists.
- Date:
- 1948-02
- Copyright:
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- Creator:
- Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003
- File Name:
- 5276b48f01_01
- Identifier:
- International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276, Box 48, Folder 1
- Repository:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University