A Dancer in the Revolution : : Stretch Johnson, Harlem Communist at the Cotton Club /

A Dancer in the Revolution : : Stretch Johnson, Harlem Communist at the Cotton Club / / Howard Eugene Johnson.

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The life of Howard Johnson, nicknamed “Stretch” because of his height (6'5"), epitomizes the cultural and political odyssey of a generation of African Americans who transformed the United States from a closed society to a multiracial democracy. Johnson’s long-awaited memoir traces his path...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
VerfasserIn:
Johnson, Howard Eugene,
MitwirkendeR:
Johnson, Wendy,
Naison, Mark D.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Timeline
  • Part I
  • 1 Early Days
  • 2 Harlem and the Cotton Club
  • 3 Moving Up
  • 4 Show Biz
  • 5 Joining the Party
  • Part II
  • 6 The Young Communist League
  • 7 The War Years
  • 8 Back Home
  • 9 La Lucha Continua
  • Part III
  • 10 Starting Over
  • 11 Malimwu
  • 12 The Cotton Club Revisited
  • 13 Martin Luther King Day in Hawaii
  • 14 Paris to Texas and Home Again
  • Notes
  • Further Reading
  • Map of Harlem Nightclubs in the 1930s and ’40s
  • Howard E. Johnson’s Curriculum Vitae
  • Index

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