Mississippi to Madrid: Memoir of a Black American in the Abraham Lincoln BrigadeFrom his birth to a sharecropper family in the cotton fields of Mississippi to the unrest in Chicago and New York during the Depression, James Yates' experience with labor protest and union organizing shaped his vision of freedom and led to his decision to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. |
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References to this book
Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, And The Black Working Class Robin D. G. Kelley No preview available - 1996 |