W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King Jr are two 20th-century giants in both the struggle for African American equality and the liberation of oppressed people worldwide. The two freedom fighters linked the struggle for civil rights with the battle for labor rights and joined both with the fight for peace.
At the beginning of the 20th century Du Bois famously said, “The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line.” A few years later the scholar and activist helped found the NAACP and the Pan African Congresses championing an internationalist understanding of humanity’s problems. Dr. King, after having led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the March on Washington, took a strong stance against the Vietnam War declaring that the “bombs dropped on Vietnam explode at home.”
In this webinar, historian Edward Carson explores the deepening of the ideological vision of both men and their path towards consistent working-class and advanced democratic positions.
Comments
Author
-
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.
Join Now