Table of Contents

Contents

IntroductionGwendolyn Midlo Hall

A Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle

Prologue
1.A Child of Slaves
2.A Black Regiment in World War I
3.On to France
4.Searching for Answers
5.An Organization of Revolutionaries
6.A Student in Moscow
7.Self-Determination: The Fight for a Correct Line
8.Return to the Homefront: White Chauvinism Under Fire
9.Reunion in Moscow
10.Sharecroppers with Guns: Organizing the Black Belt
11.Chicago: Against War and Fascism
12.The Spanish Civil War: A Call to Arms
13.World War II and the Merchant Marines
Epilogue

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

About the Author

Harry Haywood (1898-1985) was a worker-intellectual. He studied at the Lenin School in Moscow, then returned to the United States in 1930 to become a leading member of the Communist Party of the United States.

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall is professor of history at Michigan State University and professor emerita of history at Rutgers University. She is the widow of Harry Haywood.

Reviews

"Presents Haywood in motion and thought-the revolutionary, theoretician, strategist, and above all, the man wrestling with his times." -Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original