Original pamphlet by the editor of Paul Robeson's FREEDOM magazine, published a few months after Till's brutal murder in Mississippi and an all-white jury's acquittal of his murderers.<br />
Near fine.
Price: $500.00
"The white ruling class of the South is in open rebellion against the U.S. Constitution and the authority of the federal government."
In 1951, Paul Robeson and Louis Burnham founded the newspaper FREEDOM in Harlem, which "openly challenged racism, imperialism, colonialism, and political repression and advocated for civil rights, labor rights and world peace" (NYU). Here Burnham discusses Till's death in connection with three other 1955 murders of African-American men in Mississippi, linking them all to the wider wave of violent intimidation aimed at suppressing Black political organizing. Identifying the atrocity as "Not Just a 'Case' but a 'System,'" Burnham draws a straight line of history from the sabotaging of Reconstruction to the vicious violence, segregation, and voter suppression carried out and carried on by the 20th-century white ruling class. An unflinching and important document.
Read more: NYU, digital edition of Freedom, from the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.
New York: Freedom Associates, Inc, 1955. 7'' x 5''. Saddle-stapled black and white pictorial wraps. 15 pages. Minor creasing. Faint smudge at corner of front cover.
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