Black Communist Women's Political Writing w/ Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean
Guerrilla History
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The Rise and Fall of McCarthyism
The book is divided into five sections. The first section focuses on the Scottsboro case, which was in 1931 when nine young black boys were arrested for and convicted of raping two white women. It took over two decades to get them freed but there's way more to say about it than that. The next section is roughly the rise of the McCarthy the McCarthy period, which generally speaking is 1951. There are a couple of outliers as a piece from 1986 that references the 1950s but it's from Dorothy Huntington's biography of Altheas Huntington. And then there's a piece from 1960 by Carlotta Bass that where she was sort of pushed out of a sorority for anti communist reasons
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