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Equality land and freedom: A program for negro liberation (draft submitted by the National Council of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights) by Langston Hughes
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- 1933 (Creation)
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"New York: League of Struggle for Negro Rights, 1933. First Edition. 24mo. (15cm x 11cm). Staple-bound pamphlet. Original pictorial wrappers; 45pp. Binding puncture to upper left margin; few stray pencil markings to text, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Constitution, by-laws and draft programme of the National Council of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, a Communist front organization chaired by Langston Hughes and including on its roster of offices James W. Ford, Robert Minor, Benjamin Davis, Jr. and William L. Patterson. This was the League's inaugural publication, and much of the authorship is attributable to Hughes." -Lorne Bair