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The Revolutionary Struggles of Esperanza Sánchez Mastrapa The Revolutionary Struggles of Esperanza Sánchez Mastrapa
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“Our Compañeras of the Party” “Our Compañeras of the Party”
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“The Hopes of the Great Masses of Women” “The Hopes of the Great Masses of Women”
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Full Equality “Has Not Yet Been Achieved” Full Equality “Has Not Yet Been Achieved”
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Blacks as “Soldiers of Freedom” Blacks as “Soldiers of Freedom”
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7 “A Heroic and Revolutionary Undertaking”: African-Descended Women of the Communist Movement
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Published:June 2021
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Abstract
This chapter emphasizes how Black women communists endeavored to unify a broad contingent of laboring women. Communist activists of all races promoted workers’ rights, including the right to strike, equality for women and Blacks, government regulation of major industries, and the creation of social welfare programs. Black women communists, as they embraced these perspectives, aligned themselves politically with the laboring classes—whether they were professionals, agrarian or factory workers, or domestic workers—and called for state intervention on their behalf. Many took on elected positions within the Communist Party during the early 1940s, and they elevated campaigns for anti-discrimination legislation while achieving improved working conditions. With the rise of anti-communism by the late-1940s, African-descended women communists helped refashion the party’s image to present its women supporters as guardians of democracy, both at home and globally. As such, they maintained a political bloc that actively organized women through the 1950s.
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