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Black Bolshevik : autobiography of an Afro-American Communist by Harry Haywood; John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A child of slaves, Harry Haywood became a pioneer theorist of Black Power and a leader of the communist movement in the thirties. Black Bolshevik is a dramatic and personal narrative of fifty years of the Black struggle and the American left, including first-hand accounts of the Chicago race riot of 1919, the defense of the Scotsboro Boys, organizing sharecroppers in the South, and the Spanish Civil War. Author of the classic 'Negro Liberation,' member of the Communist Party's Politburo and head of its Negro department in the thirties, Haywood was expelled as a dissident in the fifties. Amiri Baraka called this a 'powerful political journal... The sweep of history and event contained in this book will fascinate any serious reader.' Enfant d'esclaves, Harry Haywood est devenu un théoricien pionnier de Black Power et un leader du mouvement communiste dans les années trente. Black Bolchevik est un récit dramatique et personnel de cinquante ans de lutte entre les Noirs et la gauche américaine, comprenant des récits de première main de l'émeute raciale de Chicago de 1919, de la défense des Scotsboro Boys, de l'organisation de métayers dans le Sud et de la Guerre. Auteur du classique 'Ne

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Author

Harry Haywood; John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture

Publisher

Univ Of Minnesota Press

Published

1978

Language

EN

ISBN

9780930720537

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Social Science, History

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24