February 23rd, 2012
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Booklet, “Democracy and the Negro People Today,” 5” x 7-1/2,” 16pp., published by the National Negro Congress, 1940. Provides the Max Yergan’s address of October 16, 1940 on Negro rights. Max Yergan (1892-1975) was an African American activist notable for being a Baptist missionary for the YMCA, then a Communist working with Paul Robeson, and finally a staunch anti-Communist. He served as the second president of the National Negro Congress, a coalition of hundreds of African-American organizations created in 1935 by religious, labor, civic and fraternal leaders to fight racial discrimination.
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