![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The result was a remarkably resilient movement forged in a racist world that had little tolerance for radicals.Īfter discussing the book's origins and impact in a new preface written for this twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, Kelley 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. Kelley (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 90 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 14.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback 33.75 - 37.50 9 Used from 33.75 11 New from 37. Kelley 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. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression 2nd Edition, Kindle Edition by Robin D. 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. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA, and the author of Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression. A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe 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. ![]()
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