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From 1920 it began to intensively recruit African Americans as members. The most prominent black Communist Party members at this time were largely immigrants from the West Indies, who viewed a black worker struggle as being part of the broader campaigns against capitalism and imperialism.
Jun 4, 2018 · In a new book, historian Marc Dollinger argues that the conventional wisdom of Jewish and African-American harmony during the civil rights era is flawed. And that the real story has lessons for...
Black Americans. By articulating their own understanding of Blacks and Jews relationally, Black socialists condemned anti- Semitism under fascism, imperial - ism, and communism. The rise of fascism, coupled with the Second World War, fueled Black American criticism of both racism and imperialism. This Popular
"Commitment and Crisis: Jews and American Communism" Tony Michels (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison) Introduction During the 1920s, Jews formed the American Communist Party’s most important base of support. The party’s Jewish Federation, its Yiddish-speaking section, claimed
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Feb 25, 2014 · In fact, Black communists and white communists alike – sometimes alone, sometimes in broad-based coalitions – led the fight against Southern lynch law and Jim Crow, lily-white trade unions, and...
By the mid-1960s, the civil rights movement’s focus on non-violence was giving way to a more militant approach. Within the Black Power movement, activists highlighted tensions between Jewish and African-American urban communities that had existed for decades.
Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones represents one of the first full-length biographical accounts and analyses of a female African American leader in the communist movement.
