"Nothing Less than Full Freedom" Radical Immigrant Newspapers Champion Black Civil Rights.
Dissent from white ethnic hostility to blacks, as well as American segregation, was expressed in the pages of left-wing newspapers. Slovak Rovnosť ľudu and Polish Głos Ludowy ("People's Voice") demanded "nothing less than full freedom" for blacks, urging readers to embrace anti-lynching campaigns an...
| Publicado en: | American Communist History Vol. 20; no. 3/4; pp. 165 - 189 |
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