My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience [in] Negro Digest: A Magazine of Negro Comment. Vol, IV, No. 8. June 1946

Vol. IV, No. 8. Small octavo. 98pp. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers with moderate wear and some soil, preliminary leaves with creased corners, a very good copy. A single but notable issue from this influential and important digest, which was the foundation of the Johnson Publishing empire. In addition to excerpting articles by and about African-Americans from other publications, there was also much original content written expressly for the magazine. This issue includes work by Herbert Aptheker, "Hollywood's New Deal for Negroes" by John T. McManus and Louis Kronenberger, the monthly article "If I Were a Negro" (this month penned by novelist Fannie Hurst), and a roundtable discussion titled "Should Negroes Support Truman on His Race Record?" (two writers argue Yes and two No). Perhaps most importantly, this issue includes an article by *The Street* author titled "My Most Humiliating Jim Crown Experience" (which was a monthly piece for a while), a terrible story of seven year-old Petry and her Sunday School class being kicked off a beach because she (and she alone) was Black. An important magazine; early issues are uncommon.…