Red, black, white : the Alabama Communist Party, 1930-1950

Resource Information

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Label

Red, black, white : the Alabama Communist Party, 1930-1950

Title remainder

the Alabama Communist Party, 1930-1950

Statement of responsibility

Mary Stanton

Creator

• Stanton, Mary, 1946-

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Author

• Stanton, Mary, 1946-

Subject

• Communism -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
• Communist Party of the United States of America, District 17 (Birmingham, Ala.) -- History
• Communists -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century
• Communists -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
• Alabama -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
• Lynching -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century
• Lynching -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
• Southern States -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
• Electronic books
• Communism -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

Red, Black, White is the first narrative history of the American communist movement in the South during the 1930s. Written from the perspective of the district 17 (CPUSA) Reds who worked primarily in Alabama, it acquaints a new generation with the impact of the Great Depression on postwar black and white, young and old, urban and rural Americans. After the Scottsboro story broke on March 25, 1931, it was open season for old-fashioned lynchings, legal (courtroom) lynchings, and mob murder. In Alabama alone, twenty black men were known to have been murdered, and countless others, women included, were beaten, disabled, jailed, 'disappeared,' or had their lives otherwise ruined between March 1931 and September 1935. In this collective biography, Mary Stanton-a noted chronicler of the left and of social justice movements in the South-explores the resources available to Depression-era Reds before the advent of the New Deal or the modern civil rights movement. What emerges from this narrative is a meaningful criterion by which to evaluate the Reds' accomplishments. Through seven cases of the CPUSA (district 17) activity in the South, Stanton covers tortured notions of loyalty and betrayal, the cult of white southern womanhood, Christianity in all its iterations, and the scapegoating of African Americans, Jews, and communists. Yet this still is a story of how these groups fought back, and fought together, for social justice and change in a fractured region

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

324.2761/07509043

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult