Grassroots Anti-Fascism: Ethiopia and the Transnational Origins of the National Negro Congress in Philadelphia, 1935-1936.

The article talks about the origins of the Philadelphia branch of the National Negro Congress (NNC) which was conditioned by the efforts of African American communist Benjamin D. Amis by harmonizing Pan-Africanist ideals inspired by the Hands off Ethiopia movement with socialism. Topics discussed in...

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Publicado en:	American Communist History Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 4 - 16
Autor principal:	Vaughn-Roberson, Clayton
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2018
Materias:	National Negro Congress (U.S.) Pan-Africanism Socialism Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 Working class African Americans Twentieth century History
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Sumario:	The article talks about the origins of the Philadelphia branch of the National Negro Congress (NNC) which was conditioned by the efforts of African American communist Benjamin D. Amis by harmonizing Pan-Africanist ideals inspired by the Hands off Ethiopia movement with socialism. Topics discussed include the NNC championing black working class populism, and the NNC being impossible without the anti-fascist internationalism from the Popular Front.