![]() Despite threats often carried out by racist pigs, by 1934 the Alabama Sharecroppers’ Union was composed entirely of Black laborers and had a membership of 6,000 people, the largest of any Black union in the South. Though initially skeptical of a communist party in the South, the CPUSA, along with other communists all over the United States, eventually had to eat their words. This alone proves the resilience of these revolutionary Southerners. ![]() ![]() But it is important to understand that it took the collective effort of the local and state white supremacist government to bring down the organized party of mainly Black laborers and workers, and that it took over two decades to do. The eventual dissolution of the ACP was brought on by the Red Scare, the Ku Klux Klan and reactionary politicians in Alabama. Kelley published the phenomenal book “Hammer and Hoe: The Alabama Communist Party 1928-1951,” documenting the 23-year history of the Alabama Communist Party, a chapter of the Communist Party USA.įormed and molded by Black sharecroppers and laborers such as Black revolutionary Hosea Hudson, the ACP went above and beyond fighting for the rights of laborers and workers, Black and white, to the rights to housing, food and equal pay. 14 in The Forge, a socialist newspaper for the South (). ![]() Women welders in Mobile, Ala., shipyards during the 1940s.Īn earlier version of this article originally appeared on Dec. ![]()
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