A Dancer in the Revolution : : Stretch Johnson, Harlem Communist at the Cotton Club
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Includes index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Mark D. Naison -- Acknowledgments -- Wendy Johnson -- PART ONE -- Ch 1 Early Days -- Ch 2 Harlem and the Cotton Club -- Ch 3 Moving Up -- Ch 4 Show Biz -- Ch 5 Joining the Party -- PART TWO -- Ch 6 The Young Communist League -- Ch 7 The War Years -- Ch 8 Back Home -- Ch 9 La Lucha Continua -- PART THREE -- Ch 10 Starting Over -- Ch 11 Malimwu -- Ch 12 The Cotton Club Revisited -- Ch 13 Hawaii's Martin Luther King Day -- Ch 14 Paris -- Texas and Home Again -- Time Line -- Howard E. Johnson's Curriculum Vitae -- Further reading -- Index.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press, [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: xxiv, 191 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780823256532 (hardback)
0823256537 (hardback)
SUBJECTS
Johnson, Howard Eugene, -- 1915-2000.
Communist Party of the United States of America. -- Harlem Section -- History.
Cotton Club -- History.
Communists -- United States -- Biography.
Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
Tap dancers -- United States -- Biography.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
African Americans -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- History -- 20th century.