Negro Program of Communist Party
- Title:
- Negro Program of Communist Party
- Alternate Title:
- Negro Program of Communist Party
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Invisible Empire KKKK State Office
- Date:
- 1960
- Posted Date:
- 2015-08-25
- ID Number:
- 1363.01
- Collection Number:
- 8548
- File Name:
- PJM_1363_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1960 - Present
- Work Type:
- pamphlets
- Materials/Techniques:
- printing
- Subject:
- Bias
Communism & Cold War
Slavery/Race - Measurement:
- 22 x 14 (folded) 22 x 28 (open) (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This pamphlet, precise date unknown, was published by the South Carolina Ku Klux Klan. On the left and verso it shows an accurate excerpt from the "National Platform of the Workers (Communist) Party" in 1928 (compare http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/31735066228085.pdf, accessed January 15, 2015). In this excerpt, the Platform "condemns white "imperialism" and "oppression" and calls specifically for an end to all forms of racial discrimination.
To the right is what purports to be "An exact copy of a map taken out of the secret files of the Communist Party. The blacked-in area represents what the Communists hope some day... will be the Negro Communist Soviet," stretching from Virginia to Texas. "About 10 million white people will have to be driven out of their homes," including the entire white population of Charleston, Atlanta, Shreveport, New Orleans, Savannah and other cities. White-owned land "will be confiscated and turned over to the Red bureaucrats." At "Lenin University . . . 2,000 American Communists are being trained now to run the United States." For an identical map and argument in a different publication, see ID #2117, "Reds Promote Racial War" (1958).
In fact, the "map taken out of the secret files of the Communist Party" appears nearly identical to "Black Belt and Border Territory," the map in James S. Allen's book "The Negro Question in the United States"(1936), ID #2114, and his pamphlet "Negro Liberation" (1938), ID #2086. Allen (born Sol Auerbach) was the "Party specialist on the Negro question" and moved to the south in 1930 to edit it's publication "Southern Worker." (Solomon 1998, 85, 98). He advocated self-determination for the black belt of the south, where African Americans were in the majority. In his Negro Liberation, Allen called for a "Soviet Solution of the National Question," concluding that " the Communist program of national liberation is best able to achieve both the equality of peoples and the most favorable conditions for the advance of socialism." (Allen 1938, 34, 38).
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact - Source:
- Invisible Empire KKKK State Office. c1960. Here's Proof of the Red Pro-Negro Plot Against South & USA. Spartanburg, SC: Invisible Empire KKKK State Office.
- Cite As:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography, #8548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.