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James W. Ford

(Ford, James W., 1893-1957)

James W. “Jim” Ford (December 22, 1893 – June 21, 1957) was an activist, a politician, and the vice-presidential candidate for the Communist Party USA in the years 1932, 1936, and 1940. Ford was born in Alabama and later worked as a party organizer for the CPUSA in New York City. He was also the first African American to run on a U.S. presidential ticket (1932) in the 20th century. (From Wikipedia)

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Filed under: Ford, James W., 1893-1957

Foster-Ford: The Candidates of the Working Youth (New York: Youth Publishers, 1932) (multiple formats at archive.org)

Books by James W. Ford:

Ford, James W., 1893-1957: The Communists and the Struggle for Negro Liberation: Their Position on Problems of Africa, of the West Indies, of War, of Ethiopian Independence, of the Struggle for Peace (New York: Harlem Division of the Communist Party, ca. 1936)
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
Ford, James W., 1893-1957: The Negroes in a Soviet America (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1935), also by James S. Allen
Ford, James W., 1893-1957: Party Building and Political Leadership (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937), also by William Z. Foster, Alex Bittelman, and Charles Krumbein
- multiple formats at archive.org
- PDF at flvc.org
Ford, James W., 1893-1957: World Problems of the Negro People (A Refutation of George Padmore) (New York: Harlem Section of the Communist Party, ca. 1934)
- PDF at Pitt
- page images at HathiTrust

Additional books by James W. Ford in the extended shelves:

Ford, James W., 1893-1957: Negroes and the national war effort (Workers Library Publishers, 1942), also by Frederick Douglass (page images at HathiTrust)
Ford, James W., 1893-1957: Win progress for Harlem (The Harlem Division of the Communist Party, 1939) (page images at HathiTrust)

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