The Communist Party USA And African-Americans
The Communist Party USA, historically and currently committed to complete racial equality in the United States, played a significant role in defending the rights of African-Americans during its heyday in the 1930s and 1940s, but later lost support.
Read more about The Communist Party USA And African-Americans: Early Years (1919 – 1928), The Third Period and National Self-determination (1928 – 1935), Organizing in The North (1928 – 1935), The Scottsboro Boys and The ILD, The Popular Front (1935 – 1939), Organizing Black Workers, Communists and Black Culture, World War II (1939 – 1945), The Post World War II Era, The New Left and Afterwards
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“I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“I never knew anyone yet who got up at six who did anything more useful between that time and breakfast than banging a tennis ball up against the side of the house, waiting for the more civilized members of the party to get up.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective.”
—Westbrook Pegler (1894–1969)