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American Daughter and How I Beat Jim Crow in Negro Digest: A Magazine of Negro Comment - Vol IV No. 12 1946

1946réf. 614651Chicago: Negro Digest Publishing Company 1946. Softcover. Very Good. Vol. IV No. 12. Small octavo. 98pp. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers tanned with moderate wear and soil a very good copy. A single but notable issue from this influential and important digest which was the foundation of the Johnson Publishing empire. In addition to excerpting articles by and about African-Americans from other publications there was also much original content written expressly for the magazine. This issue is especially notable for printing a "condensation" from Era Bell Thompsons's American Daughter an important memoir of Black life in Iowa and North Dakota later recognized for its excellence and republished in the Sixties. This issue also prints the recurring articles "How I Beat Jim Crow" and "If I Were an Negro" the former by Charles Clinton Spaulding the longtime President of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company at the time of publication the largest Black-owned business in America and the latter by activist and author of Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer Saul Alinsky and further titled "Beware the Liberals." This issue also with a four-page insert bound in advertising the NEW Negro Digest in full color as well as the articles "Who is a Negro The Inside Story of Two Million Negroes Who Passed for White" by Herbert Asbury condensed from Collier's; "A Southerner Looks at the South" by Hodding Carter condensed from The New York Times; "Acid Test of America" by Clare Booth Luce condensed from Today's Woman; "The Harlem Nobody Knows" by Bucklin Moon condensed from Glamour; and the recurring article "My Favorite War Hero" this month penned by Herbert M. Frisby who was a war correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American. An important magazine; early issues are uncommon. Negro Digest Publishing Company unknown