Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (537 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0930720539 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 736 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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"- Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle and Dan Georgakas, editors, "Encyclopedia of the American Left." New York: Garland, 1990. "The extreme importance of this book is that in one longish volume Haywood has given us an indispensable history, as reference and sum-up of practical struggles, of not only his particular thirty-six years in the Communist Party USA, including his road into and out of it, but equally has given us a good portion of political historyThe chronicle of Haywood's life, form his birth in South Omaha and his continuous traveling throughout this country and internationally, searching, struggling, organizing, the interwoven lives of his family, comrades, and the endless stream of personalities he encounters
Author of the classic 'Negro Liberation,' member of the Communist Party's Politburo and head of its Negro department in the thirties, Haywood was expelled as a dissident in the fifties. A child of slaves, Harry Haywood became a pioneer theorist of Black Power and a leader of the communist movement in the thirties. Black Bolshevik is a dramatic and personal narrative of fifty years of the Black struggle and the American left, including first-hand accounts of the Chicago race riot of 1919, the defense of the Scotsboro Boys, organizing sharecroppers in the South, and the Spanish Civil War. Amiri Baraka called this a 'powerful political journal The s
He was in the Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, was a rank and file seaman and union activist, wrote the black power classic "Negro Liberation" in 1949, and was finally expelled from the Communist Party in 1959. Haywood died in 1985. . He became the head of the Communist Party's Negro Department and member of the Politburo during the period when it was organizing the black unemployed, sharecroppers in