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A Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle: The Life of Harry Haywood

Harry Haywood and Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

Print publication date: 2012

Print ISBN-13: 9780816679058

Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015

DOI: 10.5749/minnesota/9780816679058.001.0001

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Sharecroppers with Guns: Organizing the Black Belt

Sharecroppers with Guns: Organizing the Black Belt

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(p.189) 10 Sharecroppers with Guns: Organizing the Black Belt
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A Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle
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Harry Haywood

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

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University of Minnesota Press
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816679058.003.0011

In this chapter, Harry Haywood reflects on his work with the Sharecroppers Union to mobilize poor farmers in the deep, Black Belt South during the early 1930s. In the spring of 1933, Haywood Patterson of the Scottsboro Boys was declared guilty in relation to the alleged rape of two white girls in Alabama in 1931. His conviction sparked a a wave of indignation among Black communities across the country. Mass protest rallies, demonstrations of all sorts, and parades culminated in the Free the Scottsboro Boys March on Washington on May 7–9, 1933.

Keywords:   farmers, Harry Haywood, Sharecroppers Union, Black Belt South, Scottsboro Boys, International Labor Defense, NAACP, Communist Party of the United States, Alabama

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