We Also  Serve: 10 Per Cent of a Nation Working and Fighting for Victory. Tilghman Press. (No date - appears to be printed in 1944). 8" x 10 1/2" 68 pages Staple bound paperback. Staples do show rust. Some wrinkling along the spine in one place around the bottom staple has resulted in a 1" tear, not visible until the front cover has opened. Some abrasions and minor creases to the covers. A 3/4" tear from the bottom of the front cover. A white irregularly shaped blotch on the back cover about 1" in circumference. There are related sprays around the blotch. Hard to describe. Check the photos. Some wear and light bending to cover and page tips. A 1/2" tear om the bottom of the front page. Pages may be slightly tanned and maybe a little bit of foxing. While I do not see any other tears or previous owner markings, the pages are not perfect. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages. Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. LB08a

          "TO A TENTH OF THE NATION; whose progress in the past 75 years has been unparalleled in the history of the World. 
           This publication is hereby dedicated to the task of describing, edifying and stimulating the activities in progress of the Negro in business and industry; and to show the part that the Negro is playing in the winning of the war.
           This issue is also dedicated to the shipbuilding industry in the San Francisco Bay Area." - the dedication

           "The years from 1940 to 1944 have been the opening of many channels of employment for the Negro people. In this magazine - the first of its kind in Northern California - it is the plan of the Editor and Staff to depict the progress of A TENTH OF THE NATION - THE AMERICAN NERGRO!
            World War Two has brought about serious upheavals in all countries, which will leave indelible impressions and set the pace for all future paths of life here in America. It has revolutionized industry and labor, thereby paving the way for the Negro to take his rightful place in a world that has offered him little else but oppression.
            Prior to the second World War, there were very few Negroes working in many crafts and industries. Today, due to the increase in production needs and the shortage of man power, employers who, heretofore were reluctant to hire Negro labor have been compelled to employ Negroes. Their contributions to the war effort have much to destroy the myth that the Negro is lazy and incompetent, and has no place in the industrial life of the country except that of a common laborer and a "flunky." Although it is discouraging to be aware of the fact that it took a World War and dire necessity to show that Negroes could work as skilled craftsman, we are proud of the fact that Negroes throughout the Nation, have accepted the work that necessity and expediency have forced upon them, and have emerged with "colors flying" and the definite proof of their capabilities. There is still a long way to go before equality is attained, but the pace is faster and the results will be lasting. Today in the ship building industry alone, we are represented by Negro carpenters painters, shipwrights, ship fitters, electricians, riggers, welders, burners, drillers, chippers, cockers, stage riggers, engineers, co-ordinators, accountants, stenographers, clerks, etc." - from Ben Watkins, Editor

            When reading these passages into the computer, The AI would not let me read "Negro". This shows you how far we have come since the publication of this work. As far as contents of this work, I will have to let some of the photographs speak for themselves.