I’ve seen this image a few times, but I never understood the logic behind the statement. What was their reasoning for making such a claim?
I’ve seen this image a few times, but I never understood the logic behind the statement. What was their reasoning for making such a claim?
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Citation: Hammer and Hoe by Robin DG Kelly.
The communist party was the most active campaigner against segregation from its founding in the 1920s until its various splits during the McCarthyist repression of the 1950s, many active and leading members of the party were involved in the Civil Rights Movement, and called for an end to segregation.
The CP was organizing unions in southern textile factories, they were organizing union of southern tenant farmers, all of which opposed segregation, and segregation was specifically put in place in many of these places to keep poor white and black people separated, see Pem Buck’s Worked the Bone, and the union movement had a direct interest in integrating and uniting the workers.
The IDL, maybe the most prominent of the CP’s organizations, lead the defense of the scottsboro boys. What people saw is that people in favor of human rights were Communists, and made signs.