Flier for an event featuring Angelo Herndon

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An illustrated mimeograph broadside for an event featuring Angelo Herndon. The broadside is constructed of a thin, light brown paper, and has stylized black text throughout. At the top left on the front is a sketch of two, fisted hands, shackled at the wrists by broken chains. To the right and below are the details of the event: [ANGELO / HERNDON / WORLD-FAMOUS NEGRO YOUTH LEADER / WHO WON FIGHT AGAINST 20 YEAR’S / SENTENCE ON GEORGIA CHAIN-GANG / and / VICE-PRES. YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE / will speak / FRI.OCT.28th PM / at DREAMLAND PALACE / 478 WILLIAM ST. / THE SUBJECT OF ANGELO HERNDON’S TALK WILL BE / “The Negro Youth Faces the Elections” / Auspices: / Milton Herndon Branch-Young Communist League]. At the bottom right of the broadside is an inscription of the location and year of the Herndon event [Buffalo, 1938]. There are no markings on the reverse.

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