Description Description: THE Lincoln Brigade The day after Christmas in 1936, a group of ninety-six Americans sailed from New York to help Spain defend its democratic government against fascism.
Kelley is a professor of history at New York University and the author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black Working Class, and Yo\' Mama\'s Disfunctional: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America..
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Marc Crawford won journalism awards for Life Magazine, and served as an Ebony associate editor.
He is a World War II veteran.
An] important book on an often overlooked period of history that affected many Americans."" School Library Journal ""Text and photographs will draw young people interested in the period and in those who fought for the democratic ideal."" Booklist About the Contributor(s): William Loren Katz is the award-winning author of forty books. deprived of so much of our history."" Studs Terkel "" ... a vivid panorama of a memorable time."" Kirkus ""These unsung heroes will have a special appeal for young people ... published."" NY Times Book Review "" ... many photos never before ... .. substantial text. "" Publishers Weekly ""handsome ...
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William Loren Katz and the late Marc Crawford twice traveled with the Brigade to Spain in the 1980s, interviewed surviving Lincolns on old battlefields, and obtained never-before-published documents and photographs for this book.
The Brigade was the first fully integrated United States army, and Oliver Law, an African American from Texas, was an early Lincoln commander.
They were poets and blue-collar workers, professors and students, seamen and journalists, lawyers and painters, Christians and Jews, blacks and whites.
Most Lincolns were activists and idealists who had worked with and demonstrated for the homeless and unemployed during the Great Depression.
More than half were seriously wounded or died in battle.
Few Lincolns had any military training.
Ultimately, twenty-eight hundred United States volunteers reached Spain to become the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
Description Description: THE Lincoln Brigade The day after Christmas in 1936, a group of ninety-six Americans sailed from New York to help Spain defend its democratic government against fascism
