Jack Hodgson

Young Reds in the Big Apple

The New York Young Pioneers of America, 1923-1934

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Produktbeschreibung

"Young Reds in the Big Apple is an innovative from-below history of children's Communist activism as part of the Young Pioneers of America in New York City during the 1920s and 1930s. This in-depth analysis of an often-ignored part of the Empire State's radical history highlights children's abilities to think, organize, and act politically. The Young Pioneers put forward a new vision for American childhood as it aimed to become an organization serving all the children of the American proletariat. Young Reds in the Big Apple examines these radical youths' efforts to organize in neighborhoods and schools, challenge what they saw as capitalistic evils like child labor and corporal punishment, to provide radical recreations, and their political endeavors from local issues to international diplomacy - the latter of which culminated in successfully coordinating popular Pioneer Harry Eisman's release from a New York reformatory to the Soviet Union. This history of the Young Pioneers in New York shows that the First Red Scare did not truly end. Radicalism and an intense fear of Communism were in fact constant in the early twentieth century political milieu"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781531508128
• ISBN-10: 153150812X
• Artikelnr.: 70273386

Autorenporträt

Jack Hodgson

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations vii
Introduction 1
Part I: A New Vision for American Communist Childhood
1. The JSYWL and YPA Regulations 13
2. Leo Granoff: Harlem's "Boy Trotsky" and YPA Tactics 20
3. Radical Recreations 31
Part II: Children of the Class Struggle
4. Pioneer Politicians and the CPUSA 55
5. Pioneers and Picket Lines 65
Part III: The School Struggle
6. Countering Capitalist Curriculum and Corporal Punishment 77
7. School Lunch Revolts 84
8. The Lenin Unit at PS 61 91
Part IV: Pioneers and Political Opponents
9. Periodical Culture, the Fish Inquiry, and the US Post Office 105
10. The Van Etten Camp Controversy 118
11. Bashing the Boy Scouts and the Campaigns to Free Harry Eisman 130
Conclusion 157
Acknowledgments 163
Appendices 165
Notes 171
Bibliography 189
Index 195