>_The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936_ by
>Mark Solomon (Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi,
>1998) 403 pages, $17 paperback.
>_Old Negro, New Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between
>the Wars_ by William J. Maxwell (New York: Columbia University Press,
>1999) 254 pages, $17.50 paperback.
>_Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics,
>1935-46_ by Bill V. Mullen (Urbana and Chicago: University of
>Illinois Press, 1999) 242 pages, $16.95 paperback.
>_The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry,
>1930-1946_ by James Edward Smethurst (New York: Oxford University
>Press, 1999) 288 pages, $45 hardcover.
sorry....i had five digests to read and replied to a previous one before i read this one. so the scottsboro trial era was brought up...ok!
~M.E.
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