A Dancer in the Revolution: Stretch Johnson, Harlem Communist at the Cotton Club

by Howard Eugene Johnson, Mark D. Naison, Wendy Johnson

Book Overview

The life of Howard Johnson, nicknamed "Stretch" because of his height (6'5), epitomizes the cultural and political odyssey of a generation of African Americans who transformed the United States from a closed society to a multiracial democracy. Johnson's long-awaited memoir traces his path from firstborn of a multiclass/multiethnic" family in New Jersey to dancer in Harlem's Cotton Club to communist youth leader and, later, professor of Black studies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823256537
• ISBN13: 9780823256532
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"