Hudson, Hosea

The narrative of Hosea Hudson : his life as a Negro Communist in the South / Nell Irvin Painter - Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1979 - xiii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-394) and index

Chronology -- Nell Irvin Painter's introduction -- Hosea Hudson's introduction -- From the country to the city -- Joining the Communist Party -- Sticking to the party -- A party leader in Birmingham -- First demonstrations, 1932-33 -- Reeltown -- The Depression -- Reverend Sears and the Reds -- To New York and the Birmingham jail -- National Training School -- Back South -- Atlanta -- The neighborhood union and Lint Shaw -- CIO organizing in Birmingham -- The Right to Vote club -- The NAACP and community work -- WPA and the Workers Alliance -- End of the WPA -- The Alabama CP in the 1940s -- Local 2815, USWA -- The Alabama CIO -- The marriage breaks up -- Red-baited

A collaborative memoir of a man born to a Georgia sharecropper but destined to become a steel worker, labor leader and member of the Communist Party -- A hard and dangerous life

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Hudson, Hosea


African American communists--Southern States--Biography
African Americans--Southern States--Biography
Labor unions--Officials and employees--Southern States--Biography
Iron and steel workers--Southern States--Biography

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