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Among the topics that southern white men did not like to discuss with Negroes were the following: American white women; the Ku Klux Klan; France, and how Negro soldiers fared while there; Frenchwomen; Jack Johnson; the entire northern part of the United States; the Civil War; Abraham Lincoln; U. S. Grant; General Sherman; Catholics; the Pope; Jews; the Republican party; slavery; social equality; Communism; Socialism; the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution; or any topic calling for positive knowledge or manly self-assertion on the part of the Negro.†
Chpt 1.12

communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
I heard of the organizational efforts of the Communist party among the Negroes of the South Side, but Communist activities were too remote to strike my mind with any degree of vividness.†
Chpt 2.16

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
I heard of the organizational efforts of the Communist party among the Negroes of the South Side, but Communist activities were too remote to strike my mind with any degree of vividness.†
Chpt 2.16
Whenever I met a person whom I suspected of being a Communist, I talked to him affably but from an emotional distance.†
Chpt 2.16
Some mornings I found leaflets on my steps telling of China, Russia, and Germany; on some days I witnessed as many as five thousand jobless Negroes, led by Communists, surging through the streets.†
Chpt 2.16

communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
It became a habit of mine to visit Washington Park of an afternoon after collecting a part of my premiums, and I would wander through crowds of unemployed Negroes, pausing here and there to sample the dialectic or indignation of Communist speakers.†
Chpt 2.16

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
The Negro Communists were deliberately careless in their personal appearance, wearing their shirt collars turned in to make V's at their throats, wearing their caps—they wore caps because Lenin had worn caps—with the visors turned backward, tilted upward at the nape of their necks.†
Chpt 2.16

communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
Many of their mannerisms, pronunciations, and turns of speech had been consciously copied from white Communists whom they had recently met.†
Chpt 2.16 *
In speaking they rolled their "r's" in Continental style, pronouncing "party" as "parrrtee," stressing the last syllable, having picked up the habit from white Communists.†
Chpt 2.16
"Comrades" became "cumrrrades," and "distribute," which they had known how to pronounce all their lives, was twisted into "distrrribuuute," with the accent on the last instead of the second syllable, a mannerism which they copied from Polish Communist immigrants who did not know how to pronounce the word.†
Chpt 2.16

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
Many sensitive Negroes agreed with the Communist program but refused to join their ranks because of the shabby quality of those Negroes whom the Communists had already admitted to membership.†
Chpt 2.16
Many sensitive Negroes agreed with the Communist program but refused to join their ranks because of the shabby quality of those Negroes whom the Communists had already admitted to membership.†
Chpt 2.16

communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
When speaking from the platform, the Negro Communists, eschewing the traditional gestures of the Negro preacher—as though they did not possess the strength to develop their own style of Communist preaching—stood straight, threw back their heads, brought the edge of the right palm down hammerlike into the outstretched left palm in a series of jerky motions to pound their points home, a mannerism that characterized Lenin's method of speaking.†
Chpt 2.16
When speaking from the platform, the Negro Communists, eschewing the traditional gestures of the Negro preacher—as though they did not possess the strength to develop their own style of Communist preaching—stood straight, threw back their heads, brought the edge of the right palm down hammerlike into the outstretched left palm in a series of jerky motions to pound their points home, a mannerism that characterized Lenin's method of speaking.†
Chpt 2.16

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
In debate they interrupted their opponents in a tone of voice that was an octave higher, and if their opponents raised their voices to be heard, the Communists raised theirs still higher until shouts rang out over the park.†
Chpt 2.16

communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
Communism, instead of making them leap forward with fire in their hearts to become masters of ideas and life, had frozen them at an even lower level of ignorance than had been theirs before they met Communism.†
Chpt 2.16

communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
Communism, instead of making them leap forward with fire in their hearts to become masters of ideas and life, had frozen them at an even lower level of ignorance than had been theirs before they met Communism.†
Chpt 2.16
When Hoover threatened to drive the bonus marchers from Washington, one Negro Communist speaker said: "If he drives the bonus marchers out of Washington, the people will rise up and make a revolution!"†
Chpt 2.16

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
I could not refute the general Communist analysis of the world; the only drawback was that their world was just too simple for belief.†
Chpt 2.16
Once a Negro Communist speaker, inveighing against religion, said: "There ain't no goddamn God!†
Chpt 2.16
I had to admit that I had never heard atheism of so militant a nature; but the Communist speaker seemed to be amusing and frightening the people more than he was convincing them.†
Chpt 2.16
But, as I listened to the Communist Negro speakers, I wondered if the Negro, blasted by three hundred years of oppression, could possibly cast off his fear and corruption and rise to the task.†
Chpt 2.16
Yes, some of the things that the Communists said were true; they maintained that there came times in history when a ruling class could no longer rule, and I sat looking at the beginnings of anarchy.†
Chpt 2.17

communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
Communist theory defined these people as the molders of the future of mankind, but the Communist speeches I had heard in the park had mocked that definition.†
Chpt 2.17

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
Communist theory defined these people as the molders of the future of mankind, but the Communist speeches I had heard in the park had mocked that definition.†
Chpt 2.17
I was amazed to discover that many of them had joined the Communist party.†
Chpt 2.18
I challenged them by reciting the antics of the Negro Communists I had seen in the parks, and I was told that those antics were "tactics" and were all right.†
Chpt 2.18

communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
I felt that Communists could not possibly have a sincere interest in Negroes.†
Chpt 2.18
It was not the economics of Communism, nor the great powerof trade unions, nor the excitement of underground politics that claimed me; my attention was caught by the similarity of the experiences of workers in other lands, by the possibility of uniting scattered but kindred peoples into a whole.†
Chpt 2.18

communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
With my mother standing at my side, lending me her eyes, I stared at a cartoon drawn by a Communist artist; it was the figure of a worker clad in ragged overalls and holding aloft a red banner.†
Chpt 2.18

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
Are these Communist magazines?†
Chpt 2.18
How could I tell her that the Communist party wanted her to march in the streets, chanting, singing?†
Chpt 2.18
"What do Communists think people are?" she asked.†
Chpt 2.18

communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
The Communists, I felt, had oversimplified the experience of those whom they sought to lead.†
Chpt 2.18
I would address my words to two groups: I would tell Communists how common people felt, and I would tell common people of the self-sacrifice of Communists who strove for unity among them.†
Chpt 2.18
I would address my words to two groups: I would tell Communists how common people felt, and I would tell common people of the self-sacrifice of Communists who strove for unity among them.†
Chpt 2.18
But why can't Communism speak a language she understands?†
Chpt 2.18

communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
I was convinced, and my response was to set myself the task of making Negroes know what Communists were.†
Chpt 2.18

communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
While mopping theoperating rooms of the medical research institute, I got the notion of writing a series of biographical sketches of Negro Communists.†
Chpt 2.18
Without my knowledge and consent, they confronted the members of the party with a Negro, knowing that it would be difficult for Communists to refuse to vote for a man representing the largest single racial minority in the nation, inasmuch as Negro equality was one of the main tenets of Communism.†
Chpt 2.18
Without my knowledge and consent, they confronted the members of the party with a Negro, knowing that it would be difficult for Communists to refuse to vote for a man representing the largest single racial minority in the nation, inasmuch as Negro equality was one of the main tenets of Communism.†
Chpt 2.18

communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
Though I was not a Communist, cynical rivalry had put me in charge of one of the party's leading cultural organizations.†
Chpt 2.18

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
The Communists had secretly organized a "fraction" in the club; that is, a small portion of the club's members were secret members of the Communist party.†
Chpt 2.18

communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
The Communists had secretly organized a "fraction" in the club; that is, a small portion of the club's members were secret members of the Communist party.†
Chpt 2.18

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
For example, the fraction demanded that the Daily Worker and the New Masses, official periodicals of the Communist party, be put on sale at all meetings.†
Chpt 2.18
The nonparty group declared that this would limit the club's membership to those who already believed in Communism.†
Chpt 2.18

communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
Many young writers had joined the club because of their hope of publishing in Left Front, and when the Communist party sent word through the fraction that the magazine should be dissolved, the writers rejected the decision, an act which was interpreted as hostility toward party authority.†
Chpt 2.18

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
I was informed that if I wanted to continue as secretary of the club I would have to join the Communist party.†
Chpt 2.18
My position was in the "middle"; the fraction urged me to collect money from the members for the Communist party, and the members urged me to fight for the continuance of Left Front, which had been branded as "useless" by the Communist party.†
Chpt 2.18
My position was in the "middle"; the fraction urged me to collect money from the members for the Communist party, and the members urged me to fight for the continuance of Left Front, which had been branded as "useless" by the Communist party.†
Chpt 2.18

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an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
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