Hammer and hoe : Alabama Communists during the Great Depression / Robin D.G. Kelley.
| Author/creator | Kelley, Robin D. G. author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | Twenty-fifth anniversary edition. |
| Publication | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015] |
| Copyright Date | ©2015 |
| Description | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | illustration |
| Contents | Preface to the twenty-fifth anniversary edition -- Preface -- Prologue : Radical genesis : Birmingham, 1870-1930 -- 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 -- 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 -- The march of southern youth! -- Epilogue : Fade to black : the invisible army in war, revolution, and beyond. |
| Abstract | A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," this book 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 equality. The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly religious and semiliterate Black laborers and sharecroppers, and a handful of whites, including unemployed industrial workers, housewives, youth, and renegade liberals. In this book, the author reveals how the experiences and identities of these people from Alabama's farms, factories, mines, kitchens, and city streets shaped the Party's tactics and unique political culture. The result was a remarkably resilient movement forged in a racist world that had little tolerance for radicals. After discussing the book's origins and impact in a new preface written for this twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, the author reflects on what a militantly antiracist, radical movement in the heart of Dixie might teach contemporary social movements confronting rampant inequality, police violence, mass incarceration, and neoliberalism. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-333) and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 11, 2015). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Kelley, Robin D.G. Hammer and hoe. Twenty-fifth Anniversary edition. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2015 1469625482 |
| Genre/form | History |
| ISBN | 9781469625508 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1469625504 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781469625492 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1469625490 (electronic bk.) |
| Stock number | 22573/ctt14r852x JSTOR |
| Stock number | AFC37F60-44C4-4179-AC74-85E18E6DDDFC OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |