With the exception of a few iconic moments such as Rosa Parks's
1955 refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, we hear
little about what black women activists did prior to 1960. Perhaps
this gap is due to the severe repression that radicals of any color
in America faced as early as the 1930s, and into the Red Scare of
the 1950s. To be radical, and black and a woman was to be forced to
the margins and consequently, these women's stories have been
deeply buried and all but forgotten by the general public and
historians alike. In this exciting work of historical recovery,
Dayo F. Gore unearths and examines a dynamic, extended community of
black radical women during the early Cold War, including
established Communist Party activists such as Claudia Jones,
artists and writers such as Beulah Richardson, and lesser-known
organizers such as Vicki Garvin and Thelma Dale. These women were
part of a black left that laid much of the groundwork for both the
Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and later strains of black
radicalism. Radicalism at the Crossroads offers a sustained and
in-depth analysis of the political thought and activism of black
women radicals during the Cold War period and adds a new dimension
to our understanding of this tumultuous and violent time in United
States history.
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