Wright’s communist decade coincided with the party’s intensified Black organizing.
Evidence
Wright had joined the American Communist movement in the early 1930s. This was a period that coincided with an intensification of the party’s work among Blacks following the Sixth Congress of the Comintern’s “resolution on the Negro Question” in 1928 and the beginnings of the Scottsboro trials in 1931. Wright left the party a decade later. During those years he worked in the movement in the various capacities of organizer, member of a Black party cell in Chicago, officer in the John Reed Clubs and writer for the Communist press. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1344
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Wright joined the Communist Party in the early 1930s and left a decade later
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Wright joined the Communist Party in the early 1930s and left a decade later