TY - BOOK AU - Solomon,Mark I. TI - The cry was unity: communists and African Americans, 1917-36 PY - 1998///] CY - Jackson PB - University Press of Mississippi KW - United States KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - bcl KW - fast KW - gnd KW - gtt KW - ram KW - swd KW - Race relations KW - Relations raciales KW - USA KW - Schwärze KW - Relations interethniques KW - Communism KW - African American communists KW - African Americans KW - Communisme KW - Communistes noirs américains KW - Noirs américains KW - 15.85 history of America KW - Kommunismus KW - Schwarze KW - Negers KW - CPUSA KW - Geschichte 1917-1936 KW - Electronic books N1 - E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-386) and index; The pioneer black Communists: Cyril Briggs and the African Blood Brotherhood -- Looking for the black united front -- The Comintern's vision -- The American Negro Labor Congress -- A nation within a nation -- The turn -- The Communist Party in the Deep South -- Wipe out the stench of the slave market -- Fighting hunger and eviction -- Nationalists and reformists -- Death to the lynchers -- The search for unity and breadth -- New deals and new directions -- Harlem and the popular front -- Toward a National Negro Congress N2 - 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. Utilizing for the first time materials related to African Americans from the Moscow archives of the Communist Inter-national (Comintern), The Cry Was Unity traces the trajectory of the black-red relationship from the end of World War I to the tumultuous 1930s. From the just-recovered transcript of the pivotal debate on African Americans at the 6th Comintern Congress in 1928, the book assesses the impact of the Congress's declaration that blacks in the rural South constituted a nation within a nation, entitled to the right of self-determination. Despite the theory's serious flaws, it fused the black struggle for freedom and revolutionary content and demanded that white labor recognize blacks as indispensable allies UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb34586 ER -