Hammer And Hoe by Robin D. G. Kelley
Alabama Communists during the Great Depression
A richly researched study of African American workers in Alabama during the 1930s, it traces how Communist organizers and local black activists built interracial, working-class resistance to Jim Crow by organizing labor in factories and fields, shaping everyday culture, and forging new political identities. Drawing on archival sources and oral histories, the book shows how songs, language, churches, and unions became sites of radicalism and solidarity, complicating standard narratives of both labor history and the later civil rights movement.
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- 1990
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- English
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