[PDF.56ic] Mississippi to Madrid: Memoir of a Black American in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Mississippi to Madrid: Memoir of a Black American in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

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 | #588598 in Books |  Open Hand Pub Llc |  1990-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .52 x5.39 x8.30l,.50 | File type: PDF | 208 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A Fantastic Read|By Lawguy|I just finished this book and I could barely put it down. It is written in a simple straight forward artless style. This fits the subject well.

I almost find the first half of the book more interesting than the second. The first half ends with his volunteering for Spain, but the book begins with his growing up in Mississippi. He escapes|From Publishers Weekly|"If you were Black in Mississippi, lightning would surely strike home sooner or later," writes Yates of his youth early in this century. For him, it struck as a mass lynching, impelling him to leave for Chicago and, later, New York. Far fr

From his birth to a share cropper family in the cotton fields of Mississippi to the unrest in Chicago and New York during the depression, James Yates's experience with labor protest and union organizing shaped his vision of freedom and led to his decision to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War.

Approximately 100 Blacks were among the 3,200 volunteers from the US that formed the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the first non-Jim Crow military organization in US his...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Mississippi to Madrid: Memoir of a Black American in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade   |  James Yates. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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