Item #2875 "Texas Tom" Clark. Deport This. Keep Ferdinand C. Smith Here [cover title]. African Americana.
"Texas Tom" Clark. Deport This. Keep Ferdinand C. Smith Here [cover title]

"Texas Tom" Clark. Deport This. Keep Ferdinand C. Smith Here [cover title]

New York: Council of Negro Trade Unionists, [1948]. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Minimal wear. Near fine. Item #2875

A rare leaflet issued by the Provisional Harlem Committee to Free Ferdinand C. Smith and the Council of Negro Trade Unionists. Ferdinand C. Smith, secretary of the National Maritime Union, was instrumental in promoting Black membership in the Negro Trade Unionists. Attorney General Tom C. Clark, originally from Texas, sought to deport Smith back to Jamaica because of his Communist affiliations and work for civil rights. OCLC reports just a single copy of this work, at the University of Kansas.

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