TY - BOOK AU - Hudson,Hosea AU - Painter,Nell Irvin TI - The narrative of Hosea Hudson: his life as a Negro Communist in the South SN - 0674601106 AV - HX84.H8 P34 U1 - 335.430 22 PY - 1979/// CY - Cambridge PB - Harvard University Press KW - Hudson, Hosea KW - African American communists KW - Southern States KW - Biography KW - African Americans KW - Labor unions KW - Officials and employees KW - Iron and steel workers N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -