Blacks And Reds: Race And Class In Conflict, 1919-1990; Author: Hutchinson, Earl Ofari; Hardback; Book

Author: Hutchinson, Earl Ofari
Hardback; Book
338 pages
Published: January 1995
The Michigan State University Press
ISBN: 0870133616

Blacks and Reds examines in detail the American Communist party's largely unsuccessful effort to win the allegiance of black Americans in the 20th century. Hutchinson clearly demonstrates that tensions between blacks and Reds increased as time passed as African American leaders made it clear that they would not permit African American interests and agendas to become subservient to party ideology.Hutchinson examines the American Communist Party's efforts to win support from black Americans, chronicling Party cooperation with the NAACP, the National Urban League, and the Garvey movement in the 1920 and 1930s, and the Communist Party's involvement in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. He