The Negro and the Democratic Front
New York: International Publishers, (1938). First printing. Black and white frontispiece photographic portrait. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 222 pages. Very good. Bound in green cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine titles which have dulled and darkened. Spine is mildly sun-faded. Boards have light fading toward edges, some brown spotting. Bump to lower fore corner of upper board.
Inscribed, signed, and dated October 1939 by Ford on front free endpaper. Book is protected with a custom cut 4 mil Mylar jacket.
Jim Ford was an African American activist and Vice-Presidential candidate for the Communist Party USA in 1932, 1936, and 1940. He was the first African American on a U.S. Presidential ticket in the 20th century.
These articles and speeches illustrate the communist program for Blacks during the popular-front period. Ford's proposed solution to the challenges then facing African Americans, workers, progressives is a democratic front against fascism, extending that to true democracy--which in his view is socialism.
Ref. Seidman F202.
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