Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement: Another Side of the Story (Contemporary Black History)

The Original Essays In This Book Highlight The Destructive Impact Of Mccarthyism On The African American Freedom Movement. Recovering Little-known Stories Of Black Radical Activism, They Challenge The Idea That The Cold War Was, On Balance, Beneficial To The Movement. The Book Emphasizes What Was Lost When Anticommunism Forced The Movement To Submerge Broader Issues Of Economic Justice, Labor Rights, Feminism, And Peace. The Authors Illustrate The Often Neglected Or Understated Human Costs Of The Red Scare, Focusing On Local And Individual Stories That Offer Insight Into Larger National And International Trends. Another Side Of The Story : African American Intellectuals Speak Out For Peace And Freedom During The Early Cold War Years / Robbie Lieberman -- Quieting The Chorus : Progressive Women's Race And Peace Politics In Postwar New York / Jacqueline Castledine -- The March Of Young Southern Black Women : Esther Cooper Jackson, Black Left Feminism, And The Personal And Political Costs Of Cold War Repression / Erik S. Mcduffie -- Correspondence : Journalism, Anticommunism, And Marxism In 1950s Detroit / Rachel Peterson -- Freedom Train Derailed : The National Negro Labor Council And The Nadir Of Black Radicalism / Clarence Lang -- Challenges To Solidarity : The Mexican American Fight For Social And Economic Justice, 1946-1963 / Zaragosa Vargas. Edited By Robbie Lieberman And Clarence Lang. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [231]-241) And Index. "This trailblazing, challenging, and exceedingly thoughtful book establishes a New Paradigm for the consideration of the most profoundly monumental change in this nation in recent decades: the retreat of Jim Crow. This book should not only be read, it should be pondered and studied intensively, for there are nuggets of wisdom on every page."--Gerald Horne, Author of Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the U.S. and Jamaica and the forthcoming Mau Mau in Harlem?: The U.S. and the Struggle to Free Kenya (Palgrave Macmillan) "Lieberman and Lang have assembled an arresting collection of essays unabashedly tackling the troubled marriage of Communism and the movements for Black Freedom, Peace, and Mexican-American rights after World War II. While acknowledging an unbroken history of idealism and activist resistance to domestic exploitation over the decades, a range of scholars make available fascinating new research to remind us what was lost in a tragic era when fear and expediency led to a misguided 'crusade' against those imperfect but devoted militants standing in the vanguard of social justice."--Alan M. Wald, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan; Author of Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Anti-Fascist Crusade (2007) Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Series Editors' Foreword......Page 10 Foreword......Page 14 Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 18 Introduction......Page 22 1 “Another Side of the Story”: African American Intellectuals Speak Out for Peace and Freedom during the Early Cold War Years......Page 38 2 Quieting the Chorus: Progressive Women’s Race and Peace Politics in Postwar New York......Page 72 3 The March of Young Southern Black Women: Esther Cooper Jackson, Black Left Feminism, and the Personal and Political Costs of Cold War Repression......Page 102 4 Correspondence: Journalism, Anticommunism, and Marxism in 1950s Detroit......Page 136 5 Freedom Train Derailed: The National Negro Labor Council and the Nadir of Black Radicalism......Page 182 6 Challenges to Solidarity: The Mexican American Fight for Social and Economic Justice, 1946–1963......Page 210 Notes on Contributors......Page 250 Selected Bibliography......Page 252 A......Page 264 C......Page 265 D......Page 266 I......Page 267 M......Page 268 N......Page 269 R......Page 270 U......Page 271 Z......Page 272 Quieting the chorus : progressive women's race and peace politics in postwar New York / Jacqueline Castledine The march of young southern Black women : Esther Cooper Jackson, Black left feminism, and the personal and political costs of Cold War repression / Erik McDuffie Correspondence : journalism, anticommunism and Marxism in 1950s Detroit / Rachel Peterson Freedom train derailed : the National Negro Labor Council and the nadir of Black radicalism, 1950-1956 / Clarence Lang Challenges to solidarity : the Mexican American fight for social and economic justice, 1946-1963 / Zaragosa Vargas. This collection of essays looks at the impact of anticommunism on black political culture during the early years of the Cold War, with an eye toward local and individual stories that offer insight into larger national and international issues. This collection of essays looks at the impact of anticommunism on black political culture during the early years of the Cold War, with an eye toward local and individual stories that offer insight into larger national and international issues