Hammer and Hoe Alabama Communists During the Great Depression

Name: Hammer and Hoe Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
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ISBN: 9780807842881

ISBN-10: 0807842885

ISBN-13: 9780807842881

Edition: 1990

Authors: Robin D. G. Kelley

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Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movement in Alabamathe center of Party activity in the Depression South.Hammer and Hoedocuments the efforts of the Alabama Communist Party and its allies to secure racial, economic, and political reforms. Sensitive to the complexities of gender, race, culture and class without compromising the political narrative, Robin Kelley illustrates one of the most unique and least understood radical movements in American history. The Alabama Communist Party was built from scratch by working people who had no Euro-American radical political tradition. It was composed largely of poor blacks, most of whom were…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/16/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.13" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies


Preface


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Prologue Radical Genesis: Birmingham, 1870-1930



the Underground, 1929-1935



an Invisible Army: Jobs, Relief, and the Birth of a Movement



in Egyptland: the Share Croppers' Union



Organize or Starve!: Communists, Labor, and Antiradical Violence



in the Heart of the Trouble: Race, Sex, and the Ild



Negroes Ain' Black--But Red!: Black Communists and the Culture of Opposition



Up from Bolshevism, 1935-1939



the Road to Legality: the Popular Front in Birmingham, 1935-1937



the Cio's in Dixie!



Old Slaves, New Deal: Communists and the Wpa



the Popular Front in Rural Alabama



the Democratic Front



Back to the Trenches, 1939-1941



the March of Southern Youth!


Epilogue Fade to Black: the Invisible Army in War, Revolution, and Beyond


Notes


Bibliography


Index