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The Newspaper Menace.[caption title].
New York: Vernon Johns and J. Raymond Henderson, n.d. [1927?]. Paperback. 5, [1]p. plus a blank leaf. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Some staining, spotting and other cover wear. Vertical center crease. On cover: Negro Pulpit Opinion: An Interpretation of Christianity by Colored People. OCLC locates one copy (Howard Univ.). We suggest 1927 as a likely date since the sermon cites the recent elections of Jimmy Walker as Mayor of NY and Thompson as Mayor of Chicago as choices of the underworld and refers to Thompson's election as having happened only a "few days ago." Walker was elected in 1936 and Thompson's election in the 1930s occurred in 1937. This sermon decries the biased servility to the ruling classes (and occasionally the underworld?) of America's far from free "free" press. Online sources identify Henderson, an African American, as having been the minister at Atlanta's Wheat Street Baptist Church, 1930-1937. Vernon Johns, the co-publisher of this publisher, was also an African American minister, seving from 1948 to 1953 as pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where he was dismissed and succeeded in the pulpit by Martin Luther King, Jr. Good. Item #95436
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