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- catalog abstract ""In the 1950s the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee launched a ruthless smear campaign and outright attack against hundreds of labor leaders, teachers, leftists, Communists, civil servants, filmmakers, civil rights activists, and many others it accused of conspiring to overthrow the government. One man who refused to cooperate with the diabolical Committee was Lee Brown, as African American labor activist and a leader of an interracial union of waterfront workers in New Orleans. Brown was tried and unjustly convicted of violating the Taft-Hartley Act that prohibited Communist Party members from also serving as the leaders of labor unions. Brown spent more than two years in federal prison but his militancy and commitment to the struggle for workers' rights and civil rights remained undiminished." "Strong in the Struggle tells the powerful story of the political awakening of Brown as a youth from the rural South; his life from childhood among poor black farmers, his encounters with the Jim Crow system of racial segregation and racial violence, his discovery of the changes that could be won when working people organized into unions, his rise to leadership and his time of imprisonment, and his continuing advocacy of the ideals of racial equality and socialism."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12239289.
- catalog contributor b12239290.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""In the 1950s the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee launched a ruthless smear campaign and outright attack against hundreds of labor leaders, teachers, leftists, Communists, civil servants, filmmakers, civil rights activists, and many others it accused of conspiring to overthrow the government. One man who refused to cooperate with the diabolical Committee was Lee Brown, as African American labor activist and a leader of an interracial union of waterfront workers in New Orleans. Brown was tried and unjustly convicted of violating the Taft-Hartley Act that prohibited Communist Party members from also serving as the leaders of labor unions.".
- catalog description "Brown spent more than two years in federal prison but his militancy and commitment to the struggle for workers' rights and civil rights remained undiminished." "Strong in the Struggle tells the powerful story of the political awakening of Brown as a youth from the rural South; his life from childhood among poor black farmers, his encounters with the Jim Crow system of racial segregation and racial violence, his discovery of the changes that could be won when working people organized into unions, his rise to leadership and his time of imprisonment, and his continuing advocacy of the ideals of racial equality and socialism."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Foreword / Julianne Malveaux -- 1. Childhood -- 2. On My Own -- 3. Working in Los Angeles -- Black Workers on the New Orleans Waterfront -- 4. New Orleans and Local 207 -- 5. Organizer at Work -- 6. Fighting Southern Injustice -- 7. On the Road for the Union -- 8. Andrew Steve Nelson's Trial -- 9. The Government Comes After Me -- The Trial of Lee Brown -- 10. Prison and Release -- 11. Starting a New Life -- 12. Struggles in San Francisco -- 13. Grace in My Life -- 14. Retirement: Activism and Writing -- 15. Looking Back, Facing Forward.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-194).".
- catalog extent "xi, 195 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Strong in the struggle.".
- catalog identifier "0847691918 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Strong in the struggle.".
- catalog isPartOf "Voices and visions (Lanham, Md.)".
- catalog isPartOf "[Voices and visions]".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield,".
- catalog relation "Strong in the struggle.".
- catalog subject "331.88/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "African American labor leaders Biography.".
- catalog subject "Brown, Lee, 1921-".
- catalog subject "HD8073 .B76 A3 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Julianne Malveaux -- 1. Childhood -- 2. On My Own -- 3. Working in Los Angeles -- Black Workers on the New Orleans Waterfront -- 4. New Orleans and Local 207 -- 5. Organizer at Work -- 6. Fighting Southern Injustice -- 7. On the Road for the Union -- 8. Andrew Steve Nelson's Trial -- 9. The Government Comes After Me -- The Trial of Lee Brown -- 10. Prison and Release -- 11. Starting a New Life -- 12. Struggles in San Francisco -- 13. Grace in My Life -- 14. Retirement: Activism and Writing -- 15. Looking Back, Facing Forward.".
- catalog title "Strong in the struggle : my life as a black labor activist / Lee Brown with Robert L. Allen.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".