{"product_id":"red-black-white-the-alabama-communist-party-1930-1950-paperback","title":"Red, Black, White: The Alabama Communist Party, 1930-1950 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Stanton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed, Black, White \u003c\/i\u003eis the first narrative history of the American communist movement in the South since Robin D. G. Kelley's groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eHammer and Hoe \u003c\/i\u003eand the first to explore its key figures and actions beyond the 1930s. Written from the perspective of the district 17 (CPUSA) Reds who worked primarily in Alabama, it acquaints a new generation with the impact of the Great Depression on postwar black and white, young and old, urban and rural Americans. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter the Scottsboro story broke on March 25, 1931, it was open season for old-fashioned lynchings, legal (courtroom) lynchings, and mob murder. In Alabama alone, twenty black men were known to have been murdered, and countless others, women included, were beaten, disabled, jailed, \"disappeared,\" or had their lives otherwise ruined between March 1931 and September 1935. In this collective biography, Mary Stanton--a noted chronicler of the left and of social justice movements in the South--explores the resources available to Depression-era Reds before the advent of the New Deal or the modern civil rights movement. What emerges from this narrative is a meaningful criterion by which to evaluate the Reds' accomplishments. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough seven cases of the CPUSA (district 17) activity in the South, Stanton covers tortured notions of loyalty and betrayal, the cult of white southern womanhood, Christianity in all its iterations, and the scapegoating of African Americans, Jews, and communists. Yet this still is a story of how these groups fought back, and fought together, for social justice and change in a fractured region.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMARY STANTON is the author of \u003ci\u003eFrom Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eJourney toward Justice: Juliette Hampton Morgan and the Montgomery Bus Boycott \u003c\/i\u003e(both Georgia); and \u003ci\u003eFreedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust\u003c\/i\u003e. She has taught at the University of Idaho, the College of St. Elizabeth in New Jersey, and Rutgers University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 9.38 x 6.49 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47384249958578,"sku":"9780820356174","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/b830626aa72fdda489d3cdc75502c1e8.webp?v=1777880811","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/red-black-white-the-alabama-communist-party-1930-1950-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}