The Cry Was Unity

The Cry Was Unity
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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages : 441
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ISBN-10 : 9781496801043
ISBN-13 : 1496801040
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cry Was Unity by : Mark Solomon

The Communist Party was the only political movement on the left in the late 1920s and 1930s to place racial justice and equality at the top of its agenda and to seek, and ultimately win, sympathy among African Americans. This historic effort to fuse red and black offers a rich vein of experience and constitutes the theme of The Cry Was Unity. Utilizing for the first time materials related to African Americans from the Moscow archives of the Communist Inter-national (Comintern), The Cry Was Unity traces the trajectory of the black-red relationship from the end of World War I to the tumultuous 1930s. From the just-recovered transcript of the pivotal debate on African Americans at the 6th Comintern Congress in 1928, the book assesses the impact of the Congress's declaration that blacks in the rural South constituted a nation within a nation, entitled to the right of self-determination. Despite the theory's serious flaws, it fused the black struggle for freedom and revolutionary content and demanded that white labor recognize blacks as indispensable allies. As the Great Depression unfolded, the Communists launched intensive campaigns against lynching, evictions, and discrimination in jobs and relief and opened within their own ranks a searing assault on racism. While the Party was never able to win a majority of white workers to the struggle for Negro rights, or to achieve the unqualified support of the black majority, it helped to lay the foundations for the freedom struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. The Cry Was Unity underscores the successes and failures of the Communist-led left and the ways in which it fought against racism and inequality. This struggle comprises an important missing page that needs to be returned to the nation's history.

Communists in Harlem During the Depression

Communists in Harlem During the Depression
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 0252072715
ISBN-13 : 9780252072710
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Communists in Harlem During the Depression by : Mark Naison

No socialist organization has ever had a more profound effect on black life than the Communist Party did in Harlem during the Depression. Mark Naison describes how the party won the early endorsement of such people as Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and how its support of racial equality and integration impressed black intellectuals, including Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, and Paul Robeson.This meticulously researched work, largely based on primary materials and interviews with leading black Communists from the 1930s, is the first to fully explore this provocative encounter between whites and blacks. It provides a detailed look at an exciting period of reform, as well as an intimate portrait of Harlem in the 1920s and 30s, at the high point of its influence and pride.Mark Naison is professor of African American studies and history at Fordham University. He is the author of White Boy: A Memoir and co-author of The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1940_1984.

Corpses of Unity

Corpses of Unity
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Publisher : African Books Collective
Total Pages : 109
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ISBN-10 : 9789966139498
ISBN-13 : 9966139494
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Corpses of Unity by : Nsah Mala

Cameroon is no longer a peace-haven in Central Africa. This bilingual poetry anthology is a literary response to the avoidable but worsening and under-reported fratricidal war in Anglophone Cameroon. Written in English and French, the anthology brings together thirty-three poets from thirteen countries in Africa and beyond. The poets are concerned with the blood baths, burnings and other crimes committed in Anglophone Cameroon in the name of unity or division. Their poems paint raw images of the cruel killings of old people, pregnant women and children like those of #NgarbuhMassacre. They excavate the hidden mass graves and unveil the countless villages reduced to ashes and rubble. They recall the burning of animals and food and the brutal killing of nurses, patients and teachers. Their stanzas meander along with refugees in forests into Nigeria, into the jungles of Mexico en route to the US, and elsewhere. It is poetry speaking for human life and dignity, for peace and education, for inclusive dialogue, for reconciliation. It is poetry which should ruffle the consciences of those doing business in war, those pulling strings behind curtains, those who see oil before humans, those who trigger guns at their own brothers, sisters and parents, those who give orders to killin short, those who enjoy warfare as they profit from the spoils of war. This anthology seeks to raise global awareness on this forgotten war as a way of contributing to justice, healing, and peace in Cameroon.

The Theory of Unity

The Theory of Unity
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 223
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ISBN-10 : 0963857223
ISBN-13 : 9780963857224
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis The Theory of Unity by : David E. Pressler

A Brutal Unity

A Brutal Unity
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1602586292
ISBN-13 : 9781602586291
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis A Brutal Unity by : Ephraim Radner

To describe the Church as "united" is a factual misnomer--even at its conception centuries ago. Ephraim Radner provides a robust rethinking of the doctrine of the church in light of Christianity's often violent and at times morally suspect history. He holds in tension the strange and transcendent oneness of God with the necessarily temporal and political function of the Church, and, in so doing, shows how the goals and failures of the liberal democratic state provide revelatory experiences that greatly enhance one's understanding of the nature of Christian unity.

Let Me Live

Let Me Live
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 460
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ISBN-10 : 0472031996
ISBN-13 : 9780472031993
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Let Me Live by : Angelo Herndon

The passionate prison autobiography of Angelo Herndon, Communist union organizer of the 1930s

In Search of Arab Unity 1930-1945

In Search of Arab Unity 1930-1945
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9781135198381
ISBN-13 : 1135198381
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis In Search of Arab Unity 1930-1945 by : Yehoshua Porath

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Mahratta

The Mahratta
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 642
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433096321843
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis The Mahratta by :

The Cry of Jesus on the Cross

The Cry of Jesus on the Cross
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 157
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ISBN-10 : 9781592444175
ISBN-13 : 1592444172
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cry of Jesus on the Cross by : Gerard Rosse

The cry of Jesus on the cross described in the gospels of Mark and Matthew was a wail of pain and abandonment. Many Christians have been scandalized by it. On one hand it is an expression of the humanity of Jesus, while at the same time it links him with his Jewish heritage and the rich imagery of the psalms. Italian theologian Gerard Rosse has examined the many meanings of Jesus' cry. He first considers the historical question - whether these were truly the words of Jesus. If we assume that they are, what do the words mean? Was it merely a cry of despair, or does it reveal something of the relationship between Jesus and the One called Abba? Theologically, what light does it cast on the inner life of the Trinity? Rosse also considers the reality of abandonment in the world today and what the outcry of Jesus reveals about our solidarity with all abandoned people.

Report of the Proceedings

Report of the Proceedings
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 606
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015018037344
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Report of the Proceedings by : Church congress