Buzz Johnson and Claudia Jones: Black Radicalism in the Heart of Empire.
The article focuses on Buzz Johnson, a Trinidadian activist and publisher, who sought to preserve the legacy of Claudia Jones, a significant yet often overlooked figure in Caribbean and Black British history. Born in Tobago in 1951, Johnson was influenced by the labor movements in Trinidad and the W...
| Publicado en: | American Communist History Vol. 24; no. 1-4; pp. 104 - 112 |
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