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A Black communist in the freedom struggle : the life of Harry Haywood / Harry Haywood ; edited by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haywood, Harry, 1898-1985.
- Standardized Title:
- Harry Haywood, black bolshevik
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communists--United States--Biography.
- Communists.
- African Americans--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Communism--United States--History.
- Communism.
- Haywood, Harry, 1898-1985.
- Haywood, Harry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Mustering out of the U.S. army in 1919, Harry Haywood stepped into a battle that was to last the rest of his life. Within months, he found himself in the middle of one of the bloodiest race riots in U.S. history and realized that he'd been fighting the wrong war-the real enemy was right here at home. This book is Haywood's eloquent account of coming of age as a black man in twentieth-century America and of his political awakening in the Communist Party. For all its cultural and historical interest, Harry Haywood's story is also noteworthy for its considerable narrative drama. The son of parent
- Contents:
- A child of slaves
- A Black regiment in World War I
- On to France
- Searching for answers
- An organization of revolutionaries
- A student in Moscow
- Self-determination: the fight for a correct line
- Return to the homefront: white chauvinism under fire
- Reunion in Moscow
- Sharecroppers with guns: organizing the Black Belt
- Chicago: against war and fascism
- The Spanish Civil War: a call to arms
- World War II and the Merchant Marines.
- Notes:
- "The contents of this book were previously published in Harry Haywood, Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist (Chicago: Liberator Press, 1978)."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781452947686
- 1452947686
- 9780816680313
- 0816680310
- OCLC:
- 792742059
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