Timothy V. Johnson
LATEST ARTICLES BY Timothy V. Johnson
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U.S.
Esther Jackson, 105: Life reflected the 20th century struggle for equality
August 30, 2022Her central roles in the Southern Negro Youth Congress, the Civil Rights Congress, the Committee to Defend Negro Leadership, and Freedomways Magazine have cemented her role in history.
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Rescuing the lost history of anti-colonial fighter and Communist W. Alphaeus Hunton
February 16, 2022Hunton, a leading figure in the struggle for African-American equality and against colonialism, was a well-known figure from the 1930s through the 1950s. The silencing of Black communist history, however, has left his life unexamined by...
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Frank Chapman, veteran activist, tackles Black Liberation and national question in book
December 15, 2021Chapman’s latest book, Marxist-Leninist Perspectives on Black Liberation and Socialism, traces the history of and connections between the struggle for socialism and the African American freedom movement.
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How Communist ‘popular front’ activism built a labor-community alliance that changed Detroit
August 24, 2020Rather than focusing on the CPUSA’s relation to the Soviet party—a favorite topic of historians—Ryan Pettengill has begun to unearth the everyday activities of rank-and-file Communists.
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