Template:Did you know nominations/Cavalcade of the American Negro

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 20:38, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Cavalcade of the American Negro

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• ... that Cavalcade of the American Negro (1940) is unsigned, but it was edited by Arna Bontemps, and Fenton Johnson contributed the sections on theater and poetry? Source: American literature in transition, 1930-1940. Ichiro Takayoshi. & (Johnson) The Negro in Illinois : the WPA papers. Brian Dolinar, Urbana, Chicago. 2013
  • ALT1: ... that the 1940 African-American history book Cavalcade of the American Negro had a print run of 50,000 copies?Source: The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers 2013 ed by Brian Dolinar Page xxxvi, line 7 of 2nd paragraph
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1964–1965 Scripto strike

Moved to mainspace by Jengod (talk). Self-nominated at 17:44, 3 October 2022 (UTC).

• Nice work! Article is new enough, long enough, neutral/balanced, well sourced, no copyvio per Earwig (which notes that the lede has already been picked up by a random web site, plus the direct quote from the Swann Galleries site, which is correctly attributed in the article). QPQ is done. Original hook is fine, stated and cited within the article. Not sure about ALT1 – both in terms of how interesting it is (hard to know if a print run of 50,000 is a lot? unexpected? impressive?) and also what exactly it means (if there were two editions, is 50,000 referring to the first edition only?). I'm sure there are additional hooks we could propose for this. Here is one for your consideration:
  • ALT2: ... that the 1940 poster for Cavalcade of the American Negro (pictured) has been called "a powerful image" prefiguring the Black Power posters of the late 1960s? Cielquiparle (talk) 04:40, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
• absolutely *love* this suggestion. ALT2 for the win. Thank you! jengod (talk) 05:18, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
• Approved with ALT2 which works best with the eye-catching image of the poster! (Which BTW is a PD image (advertisement), confirmed no known restrictions on publication per Library of Congress.) Cielquiparle (talk) 07:46, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

On second thought...I believe I need someone else to approve ALT2 because I wrote it as the reviewer. Although the nominator approved it. Thanks. Cielquiparle (talk) 11:13, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Cielquiparle and Jengod, I like the general gist of ALT2, but the nearness of the paraphrase without directly quoting is worrisome. Can we keep the main message and rejig the wording? Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 17:42, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

• ALT3 ... that the 1940 poster for Cavalcade of the American Negro (pictured) anticipates 1960s Black Power iconography?

LMK what you think. Thanks for the help Cielquiparle Firefangledfeathers jengod (talk) 17:54, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

• • with ALT3. Looks great! Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 17:58, 20 October 2022 (UTC)