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Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica

Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica

Horne, Gerald

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Biographies GeneralPolitical BiographiesSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0814737404
ISBN13: 9780814737408
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Sep 1 2009
Pages: 380
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

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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