Black Worker in the Deep South – An Expanded Edition

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Originally published in 1972, Hosea Hudson’s Black Worker in the Deep South is a remarkable story of the struggle for African American equality, workers’ rights, and socialism.

This new edition includes a Foreword by historian Michael Honey, author of Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers. Honey reminds us that the “nightmare conditions of the past” can inform our struggles today. Also included are supplementary materials from the archives of the Daily World compiled by Tony Pecinovsky giving readers a better, fuller understanding of Hudson’s place in U.S. history.

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Author(s): Hosea Hudson,

ISBN: 9780717800643

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Originally published in 1972, Hosea Hudson’s Black Worker in the Deep South is a remarkable story of the struggle for African American equality, workers’ rights, and socialism.

Hudson, the son of sharecroppers, became an industrial worker, union organizer, and a leading figure in the Communist Party, USA. His story, though unique, is one that could be told a million times over—a collective story of determined southern African Americans fighting for freedom and justice throughout U.S. history.

In his Personal Record, Hudson recounts union campaigns in the Jim Crow south, being a target the Ku Klux Klan racism and violence, unemployment struggles, joining the Communist Party, and learning about Marxism-Leninism.