Author: National Negro Congress (U.S.). MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
National Negro Congress, Chicago, Feb. 14, 15, 16 and 17, 1936
Author: National Negro Congress (U.S.). MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Resolutions of the National Negro Congress
Author: National Negro CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
Resolutions of the National Negro Congress Held in Chicago, Ill., February 14, 15, 16, 1936
Author: Asa Philip RandolphPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
1936 Delegates to the National Negro Congress
Author: Lori HusbandDeath Blow to Jim Crow
Author: Erik S. GellmanPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807835315
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Death Blow to Jim Crow
Black Liberation/red Scare
Author: Gerald HornePublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874134728
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
"Black Liberation/Red Scare is a study of an African-American Communist leader, Ben Davis, Jr. (1904-64). Though it examines the numerous grassroots campaigns that he was involved in, it is first and foremost a study of the man and secondarily a study of the Communist party from the 1930s to the 1960s. By examining the public life of an important party leader, Gerald Horne uniquely approaches the story of how and why the party rose - and fell." "Ben Davis, Jr., was the son of a prominent Atlanta publisher and businessman who was also the top African-American leader of the Republican party until the onset of the Great Depression. Davis was trained for the black elite at Morehouse, Amherst, and Harvard Law School. After graduating from Harvard, he joined the Communist party, where he remained as one of its most visible leaders for thirty years. In 1943, after being endorsed by his predecessor, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., he was elected to the New York City Council from Harlem and subsequently reelected by a larger margin in 1945. Davis received support from such community figures as NAACP leader Roy Wilkins, boxer Joe Louis, and musician Duke Ellington. While on the council Davis fought for rent control and progressive taxation and struggled against transit fare hikes and police brutality." "With the onset of the Red Scare and the Cold War, Davis - like the Communist party itself - was marginalized. The Cold War made it difficult for the U.S. to compete with Moscow for the hearts and minds of African-Americans while they were subjected to third-class citizenship at home. Yet in return for civil rights concessions, African-American organizations such as the NAACP were forced to distance themselves from figures such as Ben Davis. In 1949 he was ousted unceremoniously (and perhaps illegally) from the City Council. He was put on trial, jailed in 1951, and not released until 1956, when the civil rights movement was gathering momentum. His friendship with the King family, based upon family ties in Atlanta, was the ostensible cause for the FBI surveillance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and COINTELPRO, the counterintelligence program of the FBI, which was aimed initially at the CP-USA, made sure to keep a close eye on Davis as well. But when the civil rights movement reached full strength in the 1960s Davis's controversial appearances at college campuses helped to set the stage for a new era of activism at universities." "Davis died in 1964. According to Horne, the time has now come when he, along with his good friend Paul Robeson and W. E. B. DuBois, should be regarded as a premier leader of African-Americans and the U.S. Left during the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Official Proceedings, October 15, 16, 17, 1937
Author: National Negro Congress (U.S.). MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Communists in Harlem During the Depression
Author: Mark NaisonPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252072710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
No socialist organization has ever had a more profound effect on black life than the Communist Party did in Harlem during the Depression. Mark Naison describes how the party won the early endorsement of such people as Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and how its support of racial equality and integration impressed black intellectuals, including Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, and Paul Robeson.This meticulously researched work, largely based on primary materials and interviews with leading black Communists from the 1930s, is the first to fully explore this provocative encounter between whites and blacks. It provides a detailed look at an exciting period of reform, as well as an intimate portrait of Harlem in the 1920s and 30s, at the high point of its influence and pride.Mark Naison is professor of African American studies and history at Fordham University. He is the author of White Boy: A Memoir and co-author of The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1940_1984.
Second National Negro Congress
Author: National Negro Congress (U.S.). MeetingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945
Author: Beth Tompkins BatesPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807849293
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Examines the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) as a social movement, discussing the new black working-class radicalism of the time and labor union's efforts to confront discrimination.