Black Bolshevik – by Harry Hayward

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A child of slaves, Harry Haywood became a pioneer theorist of Black Power and a leader of the communist movement in the thirties. Black Bolshevik is a dramatic and personal narrative of fifty years of the black struggle and the American left, including first-hand accounts of the Chicago race riot of 1919, the defense of the Scottsboro Boys, organizing sharecroppers in the South , and the Spanish Civil War. Author of the classic Negro Liberation, member of the Communist Party’s Politburo and head of its Negro Department in the thirties, Haywood was expelled as a dissident in the fifties.