The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936

The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936 | 1998

The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936

The first book to study the African-American/ Communist relationship in its national and international contexts

The Communist Party was the only political movement on the left in the late 1920s and 1930s to place racial justice and equality at the top of its agenda and to seek, and ultimately win, sympathy among African Americans. This historic effort to fuse red and black offers a rich vein of experience and constitutes the theme of The Cry Was Unity.