Black radicals joined the Spanish Civil War’s international brigades against fascism.

Evidence

There were five brigades: the Eleventh, German, known as the Thaelmann Brigade the Twelfth, Italian, known as the Garibaldis; the Thirteenth, pan-Slavic, known as the Dombrowski Brigade; the Fourteenth, French and Belgian; and the Fifteenth, consisting of British (English, Canadians, and Irish), American (the Abraham Lincoln Battalion), Caribbean, Central and South American (59th Spanish Battalion) volunteers. … Brandt estimates that between 80 and 100 Black Americans volunteered for the Spanish Civil War. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2419

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Connects to the Black radical tradition’s internationalism — Jim Crow and anti-fascism as linked struggles.