{"product_id":"hammer-and-hoe-alabama-communists-during-the-great-depression-fred-w-morrison-series-in-southern-studies-9780807842881","title":"Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 1929 and 1941  the Communist Party organized and led a radical  militantly antiracist movement in Alabama  the center of Party activity in the Depression South. Hammer and Hoe documents the efforts of the Alabama Communist Party and its allies to secure racial  economic  and political reforms. Sensitive to the complexities of gender  race  culture and class without compromising the political narrative  Robin Kelley illustrates one of the most unique and least understood radical movements in American history.  The Alabama Communist Party was built from scratch by working people who had no Euro-American radical political tradition. It was composed largely of poor blacks  most of whom were semiliterate and devoutly religious  but it also attracted a handful of whites  including unemployed industrial workers  iconoclastic youth  and renegade liberals. Kelley shows that the cultural identities of these people from Alabamas farms  factories  mines  kitchens  and city streets shaped the development of the Party. The result was a remarkably resilient movement forged in a racist world that had little tolerance for radicals.  In the South race pervaded virtually every aspect of Communist activity. And because the Partys call for voting rights  racial equality  equal wages for women  and land for landless farmers represented a fundamental challenge to the society and economy of the South  it is not surprising that Party organizers faced a constant wave of violence.  Kelleys analysis ranges broadly  examining such topics as the Partys challenge to black middle-class leadership; the social  ideological  and cultural roots of black working-class radicalism; Communist efforts to build alliances with Southern liberals; and the emergence of a left-wing  interracial youth movement. He closes with a discussion of the Alabama Communist Partys demise and its legacy for future civil rights activism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665833156661,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807842885","price":74.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807842881.jpg?v=1782409228","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/hammer-and-hoe-alabama-communists-during-the-great-depression-fred-w-morrison-series-in-southern-studies-9780807842881","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}