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"A Road to Peace and Freedom" - The International Workers Order and the Struggle for Economic Justice and Civil Rights, 1930-1954 (Paperback)
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"A Road to Peace and Freedom" - The International Workers Order and the Struggle for Economic Justice and Civil Rights, 1930-1954 (Paperback)
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The International Workers Order was an American consortium of
ethnic mutual self-insurance societies that advocated for
unemployment insurance, Social Security and vibrant industrial
unions. This interracial leftist organization guaranteed the
healthcare of its 180,000 white, black, Hispanic and Arabic
working-class members. But what accounted for the popularity-and
eventual notoriety-of this Order? Mining extensive primary sources,
Robert Zecker gives voice to the workers in "A Road to Peace and
Freedom." He describes the group's economic goals, commitment to
racial justice, and activism, from lobbying to end segregation and
lynching in America to defeating fascism abroad. Zecker also
illustrates the panoply of entertainment, sports, and educational
activities designed to cultivate the minds and bodies of members.
However, the IWO was led by Communists, and the Order was targeted
for red-baiting during the Cold War, subject to government
surveillance, and ultimately "liquidated." Zecker explains how the
dismantling of the IWO and the general suppression of left-wing
dissenting views on economic egalitarianism and racial equality had
deleterious effects for the entire country. Moreover, Zecker shows
why the sobering lesson of the IWO remains prescient today.
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