The narrative of Hosea Hudson : his life as a Negro Communist in the South / [edited by] Nell Irvin Painter.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusettes : Harvard University Press, 1979.Description: xiii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0674601106
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 324.273/75/096073075 B
LOC classification:
  • HX 84 .H8 P34 1979
Online resources:
Contents:
1. From the country to the city -- 2. Joining the Communist Party -- 3. Sticking to the party -- 4. A party leader in Birmingham -- 5. First demonstrations, 1932-33 -- 6. Reeltown -- 7. The Depression -- 8. Reverend Sears and the Reds -- 9. To New York and the Birmingham jail -- 10. National training school -- 11. Back south -- 12. Atlanta -- 13. The neighborhood union and Lint Shaw -- 14. CIO organizing in Birmingham -- 15. The Right to Vote Club -- 16. The NAACP and community work -- 17. WPA and the Workers Alliance -- 18. End of the WPA -- 19. The Alabama CP in the 1940s -- 20. Local 2815, USWA -- 21. The Alabama CIO -- 22. The marriage breaks up -- 23. Red-baited.
Summary: "Born on a farm in Georgia in 1898, Hosea Hudson moved to Birmingham to work in the steel mills and became an active member of the Communist Party as well as president of a CIO union local. It was a hard, dangerous life, to be black and communist and pro-union. Hudson talked about that life to Nell Painter, and she brilliantly recreates it in this oral biography. [...] Painter calls this book a collaboration between a young historian and an old radical. [...] Along with the records left by Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois, the document of Hosea Hudson will stand as a measure of an independent black man in a hostile society." -- from the dust jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-394) and index.

1. From the country to the city -- 2. Joining the Communist Party -- 3. Sticking to the party -- 4. A party leader in Birmingham -- 5. First demonstrations, 1932-33 -- 6. Reeltown -- 7. The Depression -- 8. Reverend Sears and the Reds -- 9. To New York and the Birmingham jail -- 10. National training school -- 11. Back south -- 12. Atlanta -- 13. The neighborhood union and Lint Shaw -- 14. CIO organizing in Birmingham -- 15. The Right to Vote Club -- 16. The NAACP and community work -- 17. WPA and the Workers Alliance -- 18. End of the WPA -- 19. The Alabama CP in the 1940s -- 20. Local 2815, USWA -- 21. The Alabama CIO -- 22. The marriage breaks up -- 23. Red-baited.

"Born on a farm in Georgia in 1898, Hosea Hudson moved to Birmingham to work in the steel mills and became an active member of the Communist Party as well as president of a CIO union local. It was a hard, dangerous life, to be black and communist and pro-union. Hudson talked about that life to Nell Painter, and she brilliantly recreates it in this oral biography. [...] Painter calls this book a collaboration between a young historian and an old radical. [...] Along with the records left by Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois, the document of Hosea Hudson will stand as a measure of an independent black man in a hostile society." -- from the dust jacket.

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