Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Robin D.G. Kelley

Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression

Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies

Robin D.G. Kelley

412 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the long Civil Rights movement, Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and ...

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