Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and JamaicaNYU Press, 20 jun 2005 - 359 pagina's During the heyday of the U.S. and international labor movements in the 1930s and 1940s, Ferdinand Smith, the Jamaican-born co-founder and second-in-command of the National Maritime Union (NMU), stands out as one of the most—if not the most—powerful black labor leaders in the United States. Smith’s active membership in the Communist Party, however, coupled with his bold labor radicalism and shaky immigration status, brought him under continual surveillance by U.S. authorities, especially during the Red Scare in the 1950s. Smith was eventually deported to his homeland of Jamaica, where he continued his radical labor and political organizing until his death in 1961. |
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... close to the organized left, commented that “never before had there been such a representative gathering of Negro leaders under one roof.” For those who could not come, radio station WINS-AM broadcast the speakers' remarks.4 Yet ...
... close to the organized left, commented that “never before had there been such a representative gathering of Negro leaders under one roof.” For those who could not come, radio station WINS-AM broadcast the speakers' remarks.4 Yet ...
Pagina ix
... close aides positioned in the anteroom of his office, assisting him in his duties of negotiating contracts for his members, presiding over meetings, and writing columns for the union press and various Negro newspapers. Terry Penman, who ...
... close aides positioned in the anteroom of his office, assisting him in his duties of negotiating contracts for his members, presiding over meetings, and writing columns for the union press and various Negro newspapers. Terry Penman, who ...
Pagina 17
... close, “union membership had grown to 117,000, seamen's wages had risen to $85 per month and seamen serving on the deck for the first time achieved an eight hour workday.”10As the United States traded with both sides during the conflict ...
... close, “union membership had grown to 117,000, seamen's wages had risen to $85 per month and seamen serving on the deck for the first time achieved an eight hour workday.”10As the United States traded with both sides during the conflict ...
Pagina 19
... close ties to the Communist Party, was cooperating with the IWW in “various fields” in 1926. The IWW was suffering “disintegration . . . losing their headquarters”—and many members at this time.24 This presented an opportunity for the ...
... close ties to the Communist Party, was cooperating with the IWW in “various fields” in 1926. The IWW was suffering “disintegration . . . losing their headquarters”—and many members at this time.24 This presented an opportunity for the ...
Pagina 35
... close to Curran initially. “No matter what part of the room I would enter at a top meeting of the NMU or CIO executive board, Joe would find me and sit alongside of me. Then I would whisper in his ear comments on someone who would be ...
... close to Curran initially. “No matter what part of the room I would enter at a top meeting of the NMU or CIO executive board, Joe would find me and sit alongside of me. Then I would whisper in his ear comments on someone who would be ...
Inhoudsopgave
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Few Safe Harbors | 81 |
Wind in Their Sails | 100 |
Storm Signals | 121 |
Storm at Sea | 143 |
Black Labor at Sea | 191 |
Dropping Anchor in Jamaica | 217 |
On the Beach | 244 |
The Final Voyage of Ferdinand Smith | 267 |
Epilogue | 285 |
Notes | 293 |
Index | 333 |
About the Author | 359 |
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Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and ... Gerald Horne Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2009 |
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Pagina 10 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.
Pagina 296 - Colonials, we began with this malarial enervation: that nothing could ever be built among these rotting shacks, barefooted backyards and moulting shingles; that being poor, we already had the theatre of our lives. So the self-inflicted role of martyr came naturally, the melodramatic belief that one was message-bearer for the millennium, that the inflamed ego was enacting their will.
Pagina 295 - ... common passion for black liberation — diverse tributaries, as it were, of a common cause possessed of its own embracing logic.25 And all of those similarities were located in a single world of time and place. Perhaps, indeed, the most striking testimony in support of the point being made here is the remarkable unanimity with which travelers to the region, almost from the very beginning, remarked on the stark contrast everywhere between the beauty of its natural habitat and the Gothic horrors...
Pagina 316 - Harry Haywood, Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist (Chicago: Liberator Press, 1978), ch.
Pagina 326 - The Working Class in the Third World: A Study in Class Consciousness and Class Action in Jamaica, 1919-1952," Department of Sociology: Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the West Indies, St.
Pagina 298 - Theodore Kornweibel, No Crystal Stair: Black Life and the Messenger...
Pagina 320 - Massaquoi, Destined to Witness: Growing up Black in Nazi Germany (New York: W.
Pagina 63 - In such a situation, relationships would tend to be stripped of the social superstructure of values and attitudes that are characteristic of the majority of societal relationships. It would appear that many of our respondents could not afford the luxury of an anti-Negro prejudice while at sea.
Pagina 300 - Paul S. Taylor, The Sailors' Union of the Pacific (New York: Ronald Press), pp.
Pagina 84 - We recognize the present struggle of Great Britain and the Soviet Union against the forces of fascism to be sincere and requiring the full support of all liberty-loving people throughout the world.