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Making a Way Out of No Way

Published by

Johnson Publishing Company, American, 1942 - 2019

Edited by

Johnson, John Harold, American, 1918 - 2005

Written by

White, Walter F., American, 1893 - 1955

Eleanor Roosevelt, American, 1884 - 1962

W.E.B. Du Bois, American, 1868 - 1963

Sheil, Bernard James D.D., American, 1888 - 1910

Date

February 1943

Medium

ink on paper with metal

Dimensions

H x W x D (Closed): 7 7/8 × 5 1/4 × 3/16 in. (20 × 13.4 × 0.5 cm)

Description

Negro Digest, volume 1, number 4, featuring a round table discussion entitled, [The Case Against the Negro Press] with pros and cons provided by Eleanor Roosevelt and Walter White, as well as an article entitled [Black Voices In The Peace] by W. E. B. Du Bois. The front cover has a green banner with the mast head at top that reads [NEGRO DIGEST] in centered, white block lettering. An orange, vertical banner runs down the binding edge, with a white circle with [25¢] printed in the center in green type. The main body of front cover is an off-white field filled with mostly green type, with the subtitle of the magazine, [A Magazine Of Negro Comment], centered at the top, between two green lines in orange type. The rest of the off-white field features the table of contents of the magazine, including a roundtable discussion, eighteen (18) articles, a book section and features section with corresponding authors and page numbers listed. There is a green banner at the bottom with [FEBRUARY 1943] centered in white type. This magazine issue is has eighty-two (82) pages, are off-white with black type throughout, and has some graphics and black and white images included. The back cover has a thin orange banner running along the top, and a thin green banner running along the bottom. Centered below the orange banner, an off-white background is an outlined box with three wavy lines on the left and right sides with text printed inside that reads [IF I WERE A NEGRO…]. The text below reads [¶ Fruits of victory must come / to all peoples, regardless of race] followed by the titles of the back cover article printed in script [Eyes On The Future] by Rt. Rev. Bernard J. Sheil, and four paragraphs of text below. Text at the bottom reads [(Continued Inside Back Cover)]. There is a notation on the back cover, top center, handwritten in pencil that reads [[---?] 7/16].

Place printed

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America

Classification

Documents and Published Materials-Published Works

Type

magazines (periodicals)

Topic

Black Press

Business

Identity

Mass media

Resistance

Credit Line

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Courtesy of Johnson Publishing Company, LLC

Object number

2015.122.2

Restrictions & Rights

© Johnson Publishing Company Archive, Courtesy J. Paul Getty Trust and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.

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