Jack Hodgson: Young Reds in the Big Apple, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Blurb

"Young Reds in the Big Apple is an innovative from-below history of children's Communist activism as part of the Young Pioneers of America in New York City during the 1920s and 1930s. This in-depth analysis of an often-ignored part of the Empire State's radical history highlights children's abilities to think, organize, and act politically. The Young Pioneers put forward a new vision for American childhood as it aimed to become an organization serving all the children of the American proletariat. Young Reds in the Big Apple examines these radical youths' efforts to organize in neighborhoods and schools, challenge what they saw as capitalistic evils like child labor and corporal punishment, to provide radical recreations, and their political endeavors from local issues to international diplomacy - the latter of which culminated in successfully coordinating popular Pioneer Harry Eisman's release from a New York reformatory to the Soviet Union. This history of the Young Pioneers in New York shows that the First Red Scare did not truly end. Radicalism and an intense fear of Communism were in fact constant in the early twentieth century political milieu"--