The Great Unsolved Negro Question (Lecture-Outline No. 2)

Girard, Kansas: E. Haldeman-Julius, [1938]. The second of at least 26 lecture outlines published by radical publisher Haldeman-Julius in collaboration with the Visual Education Press, of N.Y.C. These outlines were used by speakers in conjunction with large wall charts supplied by Visual Education Press for workers’ education groups. In a 1937 Daily Worker article, “Education Made Easy: Artists Become Modern Educators in New Visual Learning Method,” Jacob Kainen describes the Visual Education Press as “specialists in workers education” who were at the forefront of a new visual educational model in which speakers used these visual tools to lecture on anti-Semitism, the women’s movement, the agricultural crisis, labor unions, political economy, fascism, and many other topics.

This outline on the “Negro Question” includes an introduction to the topic followed by brief sections on slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, sharecropping, various Constitutional amendments, lynchings, segregation, Jim Crow, laws against interracial marriage, effects of discrimination, infant mortality, illiteracy, unionization, the National Negro Congress, and concludes with a bibliography and discussion questions.

Stapled newsprint sheets (8 ½” x 5 ½”), offset printed, 6 p., [2] p. of adverts for other Haldeman-Julius titles. Sliver chipped along the upper front corner, newsprint browned, else a very good copy of a fragile title. Scarce. Only three copies in WorldCat. See, (Kainen, Jacob. The Daily Worker, Wed., Sept. 22, 1977, p. 7). Item #13496

Price: $150.00