Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Churchill at War: Not my anti-fascist hero!
December 13, 2024I’ll stick with my own anti-fascist heroes, starting with the veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
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Paul Robeson’s role in Spain remembered
January 4, 2017The talk highlighted Robeson’s support for the Spanish Republic and the International Brigades - the volunteers who had come from around the world to fight for democracy and to resist fascism in Spain.
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Celebrating Spanish Civil War veteran and lifelong activist Delmer Berg
May 27, 2016The life of the last surviving member of the Lincoln Brigade was celebrated May 21 by friends and family.
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Delmer Berg, last of the Lincoln Brigade vets, dies at 100
March 15, 2016The Lincoln Brigade was 2,800 men and women, African-American, Latino and white, who volunteered to defend Spain's elected government from Franco and his fascists.
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Remembering poet, Spanish Civil War vet Ramon Durem
November 3, 2015Although of mixed heritage, he identified as African American, and his poems impacted the Black Power movement as a cultural inspiration.
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