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Propaganda or persuasion: The Communist Party and its campaign to integrate baseball
… both was used in the American Communist Party's (CPUSA) campaign to integrate professional baseball. Representative articles published in the Daily and Sunday Worker sports sections from 1936 through 1947 were chosen for examination and analysis. Specifically, the use of "god," "devil," and …
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Mobilizing jazz communities: the dynamic use of jazz as a political resource in the Black Liberation Struggle, 1925-1965
… People (NAACP), the American Communist Party (CPUSA), and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) took advantage of jazz’s rapidly exploding commercial appeal during the early 1920s and staged lucrative benefit concerts featuring jazz music as a way to generate financial resources that …
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Tangled up in red: The Smith Act, Cold War repression, and the trials of Communists in New York and Detroit
<p>A comparison of the 1949 Smith Act trial of Communist Party leaders in New York and the 1952 Smith Act prosecution of six Detroit communists shows that Cold War anticommunism in the United States was not uniform; instead, it was shaped by local political contexts. While some New York communist …