![Books are weapons Read about... "The negro in national defense," "Africa and the war," [and] "Negro history and culture" at the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library / / J.P.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTIvMDQvYm9va3MtYXJlLXdlYXBvbnMtcmVhZC1hYm91dC10aGUtbmVncm8taW4tbmF0aW9uYWwtZGVmZW5zZS1hZnJpY2EtYW5kLXRoZS13YXItYzhmOTk4LTEwMjQuanBn/320/497/jpg "Books are weapons Read about... \"The negro in national defense,\" \"Africa and the war,\" [and] \"Negro history and culture\" at the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library / / J.P.")
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Books are weapons Read about... "The negro in national defense," "Africa and the war," [and] "Negro history and culture" at the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library / / J.P.
Summary
Poster encouraging citizens to use the resources at the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library to learn more about African and African American history and culture.
Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).
Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 272
Exhibited in: American Responses to Nazi Book Burning, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., 2003.
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Date
01/01/1941
Contributors
Federal Art Project, sponsor
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication.
