5/24/2023 0 Comments Hammer and hoe kelleySharecropping was not much better than slavery. Its mostly rural African American population toiled in a form of agricultural peonage known as sharecropping. Kelley recounts the rise of Southern youth movements that ultimately gave birth to the student sit-ins and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.Īlabama during the 1930s was one of many desolate spots across the country. He sheds light on the unique homegrown resistance that granted Southern Blacks the ability to place their fight in the context of the anti-imperialist struggle for the first time. Kelley emphasizes how communism was able to synthesize with Southern Black culture. It highlights the struggles communists faced in organizing a sharecroppers’ union and building mass campaigns to free people accused of crimes in political frame-ups like the Scottsboro Boys. Kelley, chronicles the development of a communist movement in Alabama during the Great Depression. “Hammer and Hoe,” a 1990 book written by historian Robin D.G.
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