24 Ibid., 36.
25 Ibid., 106.
26 Ibid., 103.
27 Ibid., 108.
28 Ibid., 109 (italics in the original).
29 Ibid., 108.
30 Ibid., 120.
31 Gornick, The Romance of American Communism, 109–10.
32 Nell Irvin Painter, The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979, 82.
33 Ibid., 86.
34 Ibid., 87.
35 Ibid., 88.
36 Ibid., 102.
37 Ibid., 103.
38 Ibid., 22.
39 For more comprehensive accounts of the history of African American involvement in and influence on US communism see Robin D. G. Kelley, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990; Erik S. McDuffie, Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making ofBlack Left Feminism, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011; Mark Solomon, The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917–1936, Jackson, MS: University Press ofMississippi, 1998.
40 Gornick, The Romance of American Communism, 123.
41 Ibid., 110.
42 Painter, The Narrative of Hosea Hudson, 189.
43 Ibid., 190.
44 Ibid., 191.
45 Ibid., 193.
46 Ibid., 116.
47 Ibid., 119.
48 Samuel, The Lost World of British Communism, 55.
49 Peggy Dennis, The Autobiography of an American Communist, Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 1977, 36.
50 Ibid., 40.
51 Ibid., 41.
52 Ibid., 42.
53 Gornick, The Romance of American Communism, 104.
54 Richard Wright, Later Works: Black Boy (American Hunger), The Outsider, New York: The Library of America, 1991, 354.
55 Ibid., 355.
56 Ibid., 356.
57 Ibid., 351.
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