[Rarebooks] FS: 1944 Broadside message from African-Americans to Republicans & Democrats

[Bob Petrilla]

Alexander, Sadie T.M. A MESSAGE TO THE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC PARTIES
FROM THE NEGROES OF AMERICA: This statement was drawn up at a meeting in
New York, June 17, 1944, by representatives of 25 organizations...designed
to voice the minimum demands of Negro Americans.... NY: Allied Printing,
1944. First Edition. Broadsheet, 2pp +2pp laid in. This message, delivered
orally to the Resolutions Committee of the Conventions in Chicago in June
and July, 1944, was authored by Mrs. Sadie T.M. Alexander, Philadelphia;
Walter Hardin, Detroit; Rev. Maynard Jackson, Dallas; and Walter White, New
York. In part: "...The Negro voter will judge political parties, as well as
candidates, by their words and deeds...to work for full citizenship status
for thirteen million American negroes....elimination of the poll tax, the
passage of anti-lynching legislation, the unsegregated integration of
Negroes into the armed forces....We are opposed to any negotiated peace as
advocated by the Hitler-like forces within our own country..., &c., &c. 11"
x 8.5" Very Good.
Sadie T.M. Alexander was the first Black woman to receive a law degree from
the University of Pennsylvania. In 1946, she was appointed to the
President's Committee on Civil Rights, was a long-time member and officer
of the ACLU, &c. Present with the broadsheet is a 1930 typescript carbon,
with a few pencil annotations, listing Sadie Alexander as an applicant to
The Law Association of Philadelphia. [WorldCat lists four holdings of the
broadsheet: Yale, Temple, North Carolina, and UC-Berkeley.] $150.00


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