Born into a Georgia sharecropper family in 1898, Hosea Hudson moved to Birmingham, Alabama, to work in the steel mills in the turbulent 1930s and 1940s and became a member of the Communist Party as well as president of a CIO union local. It was a hard, dangerous life, to be Black and communist and pro-union, and Hudson talked about that life to Nell Painter, who brilliantly recreates it in this collaborative oral autobiography.
For those who think of the Communist Party as some subversive organization working via intelligence for some foreign power, this book will come as a surprise. It tells the story of an heroic organizaton - The Communiost Party of Alabama and an Heroic Man. Both Hosea Hudson and the CPA fought for the most elementary civil rights long before Rosa Parks integrated a bus. It tells a part of American History that never gets...
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