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

ISBN: 0814737404

ISBN13: 9780814737408

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

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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...

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