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Hammer and Hoe : Alabama Communists during the Great Depression /

A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equalit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kelley, Robin D. G. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Edición:Twenty-fifth anniversary edition /
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface to the twenty-fifth anniversary edition
  • Preface
  • Prologue. Radical genesis : Birmingham, 1870-1930
  • part I. The underground, 1929-1935
  • An invisible army : jobs, relief, and the birth of a movement
  • In Egyptland : the share croppers' union
  • Organize or starve! : communists, labor, and antiradical violence
  • In the heart of the trouble : race, sex, and the ILD
  • Negroes ain' black--but red! : black communists and the culture of opposition
  • part. II. Up from Bolshevism, 1935-1939
  • The road to legality : the popular front in Birmingham, 1935-1937
  • The CIO'S in Dixie!
  • Old slaves, new deal : communists and the WPA
  • The popular front in rural Alabama
  • The democratic front
  • part III. Back to the trenches, 1939-1941
  • The march of southern youth!
  • Epilogue. Fade to black : the invisible army in war, revolution, and beyond.