The Communist Party’s Negro work was genuinely vital in the early 1930s

Evidence

As we have seen, he had not been convinced earlier of the sincerity of American Communists. This is somewhat surprising given the enormous vitality of the party’s “Negro work” at the time, work that included the defense of the Scottsboro boys; the confrontation with conservative Black organizations; the organizing of Unemployed Councils and Tenant Leagues; the development of the Black Belt Thesis on self-determination and the organizing of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and, on the international level, the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1357

Categorization

• XREF: The Black Belt Thesis and international Negro organizing connect to general prior discussion of the CPUSA’s Negro work in earlier chapters of this book.