Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression, by Robin D. G. Kelley

A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the “long Civil Rights movement,” Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama’s repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality. After discussing the book’s origins and impact in a new preface written for this twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, Robin Kelley reflects on what a militantly antiracist, radical movement in the heart of Dixie might teach contemporary social movements confronting rampant inequality, police violence, mass incarceration, and neoliberalism.
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