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Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle: The Life of Harry Haywood

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Description for Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle: The Life of Harry Haywood Paperback. Editor(s): Midlo Hall, Gwendolyn. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGHA; JFSL3; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.

Mustering out of the U.S. army in 1919, Harry Haywood stepped into a battle that was to last the rest of his life. Within months, he found himself in the middle of one of the bloodiest race riots in U.S. history and realized that he’d been fighting the wrong war—the real enemy was right here at home. This book is Haywood’s eloquent account of coming of age as a black man in twentieth-century America and of his political awakening in the Communist Party.

For all its cultural and historical interest, Harry Haywood’s story is also noteworthy for its considerable narrative ... Read more

This new edition of his classic autobiography, Black Bolshevik, introduces American readers to the little-known story of a brilliant thinker, writer, and activist whose life encapsulates the struggle for freedom against all odds of the New Negro generation that came of age during and after World War I.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816679065
SKU
V9780816679065
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About Harry Haywood
Harry Haywood (1898-1985) was a worker-intellectual. He studied at the Lenin School in Moscow, then returned to the United States in 1930 to become a leading member of the Communist Party of the United States. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall is professor of history at Michigan State University and professor emerita of history at Rutgers University. She is the widow of ... Read more

Reviews for Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle: The Life of Harry Haywood
"Presents Haywood in motion and thought—the revolutionary, theoretician, strategist, and above all, the man wrestling with his times." —Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

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