Research Catalog

Title

The narrative of Hosea Hudson, his life as a Negro Communist in the South / Nell Irvin Painter.

Author

Painter, Nell Irvin

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1979.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hudson, Hosea

Description

xiii, 400 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

A collaborative memoir of a man born to a Georgia sharecropper but destined to become a steel worker, labor leader and member of the Communist Party -- A hard and dangerous life.

Subject

• Hudson, Hosea
• Black or African American
• African Americans > Southern States > Biography
• Iron and steel workers > Southern States > Biography
• African American communists > Southern States > Biography
• Labor unions > Southern States > Officials and employees > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biography
• Biographies

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 391-394.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chronology -- Nell Irvin Painter's introduction -- Hosea Hudson's introduction -- From the country to the city -- Joining the Communist Party -- Sticking to the party -- A party leader in Birmingham -- First demonstrations, 1932-33 -- Reeltown -- The Depression -- Reverend Sears and the Reds -- To New York and the Birmingham jail -- National Training School -- Back South -- Atlanta -- The neighborhood union and Lint Shaw -- CIO organizing in Birmingham -- The Right to Vote club -- The NAACP and community work -- WPA and the Workers Alliance -- End of the WPA -- The Alabama CP in the 1940s -- Local 2815, USWA -- The Alabama CIO -- The marriage breaks up -- Red-baited.

ISBN

0674601106

LCCN

^^^79004589^//r933

OCLC

• 4776275
• SCSB-11188495

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library