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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kelley, Robin D.G. Hammer and hoe. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1990 (OCoLC)654154405 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robin D G Kelley |
ISBN: | 0807819212 9780807819210 0807842885 9780807842881 |
OCLC Number: | 21375935 |
Description: | xxiii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | 1. An invisible army: jobs, relief, and the birth of a movement -- 2. In Egyptland: the share croppers' union -- 3. Organize or starve! : communists, labor, and antiracial violence -- 4. In the heart of the trouble : race, sex, and the ILD -- 5. Negroes ain' Black-but Red! : Black communists and the culture of opposition -- 6. The road to legality : the popular front in Birmingham, 1935-1937 -- 7. The CIO's in Dixie! -- 8. Old slaves, new deal : communists and the WPA -- 9. The popular front in rural Alabama -- 10. The democratic front -- 11. The march of southern youth! -- Epilogue. Fade to Black : the invisible army in war, revolution, and beyond. |
Series Title: | Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies. |
Responsibility: | Robin D.G. Kelley. |
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Robin Kelley has written the most important book on American radicalism in the last ten years.Mark Naison, author of "Communists in Harlem During the Depression" Robin Kelley writes an account that beautifully balances culture, government, economics, and ideology.Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University "Robin Kelley has written the most important book on American radicalism in the last ten years.Mark Naison, author of "Communists in Harlem During the Depression"" Should serve as a model for historians seeking to recapture the untold story of other southern radicals during the 1930s."Journal of Southern History" "Robin Kelley writes an account that beautifully balances culture, government, economics, and ideology.Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University" A fascinating and indispensable contribution to the history of American radicalism and to black history."Nation" Read more...


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