DAILY WORKER, New York, Feb. 19, 1956

* During Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott
* Rare "Negro Freedom Edition" with MLK 

This publication, The Worker, represents the official voice and ideological "mouthpiece" of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) during one of the most volatile periods of the Cold War.
The front page has a heading that reads: "'We Demand the Dignity Due Men" with lead-in: "Battle Report from First Capital of Confederacy" and photo showing Martin Luther King Jr. with his wife. (see images) 
This issue is loaded with Civil Rights related material throughout with many photos, too much top photograph all. 
Original physical issues of The Worker from the 1950s are exceptionally rare today becuse the political climate of the McCarthy era compelled many subscribers to destroy their copies to avoid FBI surveillance and the professional ruin associated with possessing "subversive" communist literature.
Complete with 24 pages, a little spine wear, otherwise in nice condition.

Background: The February 19, 1956 "Negro Freedom Edition" of the Daily Worker stands as a rare, vital artifact capturing the critical convergence of the early Civil Rights Movement and American radical politics at a historic flashpoint, anchored by a poignant piece from Abner W. Berry. As a prominent Black intellectual, CPUSA editor, and veteran journalist, Berry used his column to frame Jim Crow segregation not merely as a regional crisis, but as an economic battleground, fiercely championing labor solidarity just as the Montgomery Bus Boycott reached a boiling point. Published during the oppressive atmosphere of the McCarthy-era Red Scare, this special issue hit newsstands a mere matter of days before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other boycott leaders were indicted, while simultaneously coinciding with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's "Secret Speech"—a geopolitical shockwave that would soon throw the Communist Party into an existential crisis and eventually prompt Berry's own departure from the movement. Because harboring radical political ephemera carried severe social and legal risks in 1956, very few physical copies of this fragile newsprint survived, making this specific archive a profound and endangered testament to the intersectional fight against racial and economic oppression during a transformative week in American history.