This book portrays pioneering black women activists from the early twentieth century through the 1970s, focusing on their participation in the U.S. Communist Party (CPUSA) between 1919 and 1956. Erik S. McDuffie considers how women from diverse locales and backgrounds became rad…
Intellectual and activist biography of four key black women leaders in the U.S. Communist Party illuminating the complex interplay of race, gender, sexuality, and politics and providing a genealogy for black women's movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
Sojourning for Freedom portrays pioneering black women activists from the early twentieth century through the 1970s, focusing on their participation in the U.S. Communist Party (CPUSA) between 1919 and 1956. Erik S. McDuffie considers how women from diverse locales and backgroun…