02435cam a2200313 i 4500 514396841 TxAuBib 20211115120000.0 160421s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016373420 9781469625485 PAP 34.95 1469625482 PAP 34.95 TxAuBib rda Kelley, Robin D. G. Hammer and hoe [BOOK] : Alabama Communists during the Great Depression / Robin D.G. Kelley. Twenty-fifth anniversary edition. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xxxix, 369 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "With a new preface by the author.". Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-333) and index. 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. The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly religious and semiliterate black laborers and sharecroppers, and a handful of whites, including unemployed industrial workers, housewives, youth, and renegade liberals. In this book, Robin D. G. Kelley reveals how the experiences and identities of these people from Alabama's farms, factories, mines, kitchens, and city streets shaped the Party's tactics and unique political culture. The result was a remarkably resilient movement forged in a racist world that had little tolerance for radicals. After discussing the book's origins and impact in a new preface written for this twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, 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. Provided by publisher. 20211115. Communism Alabama History 20th century. Communists Alabama History 20th century. Depression 1929 Alabama.