ABB cadre converted Black nationalism into the Comintern’s 1928 Black national question

Evidence

It seems fair to say that the African Blood Brotherhood had begun as a revolutionary nationalist organization. It soon, however, came to be influenced by the socialism of Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, and state Bolshevism. And once several of its cadre were absorbed into the American Communist Party, it came to be accepted that in both the United States and Africa, the Brotherhood would act as an ideological, organizational, and military vanguard. In its closest rapprochement with the CPUSA, it was conceived as the core of a liberating force developed in the hinterlands of Africa and the shock troops of a Black and white revolutionary movement in the United States. Finally, the Brotherhood, or at least prominent members of that organization—Briggs, Moore, and especially Harry Haywood—appears to have provided to the Party the immediate ideological stimulus for the development of the Comintern’s position after 1928 that Blacks constituted a “national question” in America. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1023