A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, During the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama\'s repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality.
The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly religious and semiliterate black laborers and sharecroppers, and a handful.
A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, During the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama\'s repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality
