Module 3 - Additional Resources
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A Communist Party newspaper that was distributed among Black workers and sharecroppers in the South, advocating for class struggle and Black liberation.
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The closing speech from the Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku, emphasizing the unity between workers in imperialist nations and oppressed peoples fighting for national liberation.
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The life story of Angelo Herndon, a Black Communist organizer who was arrested and sentenced for "insurrection" in Georgia for organizing unemployed Black and white workers together.
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Lenin’s position on the right of oppressed nations to self-determination, which influenced the Communist Party USA’s Black Belt Thesis, particularly through Harry Haywood’s theorization adopted by the Comintern.
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Official resolutions from the Communist International that declared Black people in the U.S. South to be an oppressed nation with the right to self-determination.
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Passage which includes the quote “material force must be overthrown by material force; but theory also becomes material force as soon as it has gripped the masses.”