Hammer and Hoe Alabama Communists During The Great Depression

Contents

Preface to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

Acknowledgments

Prologue. Radical Genesis: Birmingham, 1870–1930

PART I. THE UNDERGROUND, 1929–1935

ONE An Invisible Army: Jobs, Relief, and the Birth of a Movement

TWO In Egyptland: The Share Croppers’ Union

THREE Organize or Starve!: Communists, Labor, and Antiradical Violence

FOUR In the Heart of the Trouble: Race, Sex, and the ILD

FIVE Negroes Ain’ Black—But Red!: Black Communists and the Culture of Opposition

PART II. UP FROM BOLSHEVISM, 1935–1939

SIX The Road to Legality: The Popular Front in Birmingham, 1935–1937

SEVEN The CIO's in Dixie!

EIGHT Old Slaves, New Deal: Communists and the WPA

NINE The Popular Front in Rural Alabama

TEN The Democratic Front

PART III. BACK TO THE TRENCHES, 1939–1941

ELEVEN The March of Southern Youth!

Epilogue. Fade to Black: The Invisible Army in War, Revolution, and Beyond