Panelists present three topics: 1) the CPUSA’s involvement in struggles for equality and freedom for African Americans in the South; 2) Beulah Richardson, poet, actress, and Civil Rights Congress member who wrote a poem inspired by the case of Willie McGee, an African American World War II veteran accused of raping a white woman; and 3) the cartoons of Ollie Harrington during the Jim Crow era.
The panelists each authored a chapter of Faith in the Masses: Essays Celebrating 100 Years of the Communist Party, USA:
Timothy V. Johnson, editor of the journal American Communist History and retired librarian at New York University Tamiment Library.
Denise Lynn, associate professor of history, University of Southern Indiana.
Rachel Rubin, professor of American studies, University of Massachusetts Boston.
Moderated by Tony Pecinovsky, editor of Faith in the Masses. Presented on February 21, 2021.
Image: Bob Simpson (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).
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The Communist Party USA is a revolutionary working-class political party founded in 1919 in Chicago, IL.
The Communist Party stands for the interests of the American working class and the American people. It stands for our interests in both the present and the future. Solidarity with workers of other countries is also part of our work. We work in coalition with the labor movement, the peace movement, the student movement, organizations fighting for equality and social justice, the environmental movement, immigrants rights groups and the health care for all campaign.
But to win a better life for working families, we believe that we must go further. We believe that the American people can replace capitalism with a system that puts people before profit — socialism.
We are rooted in our country's revolutionary history and its struggles for democracy. We call for "Bill of Rights" socialism, guaranteeing full individual freedoms.
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