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Decades ago, Black communist women decided to organize, fight, and win.

Share: The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents  Isabel Wilkerson  In the late 1940s, the Cold War was heating up. In the United States, anticommunism had reached a fever pitch at the same time that antiblack violence had forcefully re-emerged in the form of lynching and race riots. At this auspicious moment, Lincoln University historical socio...