Archive for the Tag 'American Communists'

A RED FAMILY, OBAMA, AND THE CONTINUING AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Like so many others who grew up in the Civil Rights movement, I am amazed to see the triumph of hope and the desire for change trump racism.  As a political being, I find myself believing once more in the possibility of a fair America.
As a writer, I am a bit taken aback that “A [...]

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A Red Family

A Red Family: Junius, Gladys, and Barbara Scales by Mickey Friedman.  The University of Illinois Press. 2009.
This is the story of a Red family: Junius, Gladys, and Barbara Scales.  Red in the older sense of the word.  Because, before there were red and blue states, there were the Reds, the Communists.

Junius Scales was the son [...]

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