1952 FREEDOM Harlem newspaper PAUL ROBESON, LORRAINE HANSBERRY, CHARLOTTA BASS

1952 FREEDOM Harlem newspaper PAUL ROBESON, LORRAINE HANSBERRY, CHARLOTTA BASS. Paul Robeson, editor and publisher.

4 (New York [Harlem], April 1952) 8pp. 11.5 x 15", folds to 8 x 11". Illustrated with photographs (Some wear and age toning, but Good condition overall).

A now-rare African-American newspaper founded by Robeson in Harlem in 1950, continuing until 1955, with close ties to the Communist Party during the Red-baiting of the McCarthy era. This issue is of particular interest because it highlights three notable Black women. Robeson's wife writes a front-page feature about the struggle against South African Apartheid, long before heroic young lawyer Nelson Mandela gained international recognition. Another front-page story about the Communist-tied Independent Progressive Party's nomination of Los Angeles Black newspaper publisher Charlotta Bass for Vice President of the United States; nearly 70 years before Kamala Harris, Bass was the first woman, Black or white, to run for that office. "Inter-American Peace Congress", part of a series on "Yanqui Imperialismo" in Latin America by 22 year-old Lorraine Hansberry, the future famed playwright and author of A Raisin in the Sun.