(CIVIL RIGHTS ROBINSON JACKIE) Negro Heroes Summer Issue N

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(CIVIL RIGHTS-- ROBINSON, JACKIE.) Negro Heroes Summer Issue No. 2. 32 pages, color illustration in comic book format. Paper lightly and evenly toned; delicate paper slightly parted at the foot of the spine, still an exceptional copy of a fragile publication. Np, Parents Magazine, [1948]

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It was no coincidence that Jackie Robinson was on the cover of this, the second issue of Negro Heroes. Robinson, thanks to Dodgers' General Manager Branch Rickey had not only broken the color barrier in professional baseball, but was voted rookie of the year. The brief biography format of the Negro Heroes magazine was the perfect mode to inform and uplift African American children as well as adults. In addition to obvious 'heroes' like Robinson and Booker T. Washington, the comic featured lesser known figures like Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander (1898-1989) the first African American woman to receive a PhD in the United States. The rear cover is entirely devoted to the Urban League, who no doubt worked with the publisher on the content.