This book deals with the forgotten history of the civil rights movement. The American Left played a significant part in the origins of that movement, whose history has traditionally been focused on the later 1940's and early 1950's. This book was published as a special issue of American Communist History.

The American Left played a significant part in the origins of that movement, whose history has traditionally been focused on the later 1940's and early 1950's. This book deals with the forgotten history of the civil rights movement.