The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s | 
The author "recounts the targeting and persecution of African American as well as white writers during the McCarthy era, reconstructs the events of the famous 1959 Black Writers' Conference in New York, and argues for the ongoing influence of the Black Popular Front decades after it folded." #americanhistory #mccarthyism #maryhelenwashington #politicsandculture #blackhistorymonth #readsoullit
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