The Devil Black America Knew Vs. the One They Didn’t

When Black Leaders and Influencers Flirted With Communism

Scottsboro Boys & Juanita Jackson By Britton & Patterson — National Portrait Gallery, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=112283083

On March 25, 1931, a few dozen people were “hoboing” on a freight train between Chattanooga and Memphis, Tennessee. Anyone who has driven West from Chattanooga on I-40 to Nashville or Memphis has experienced briefly entering Alabama before reentering Tennessee. The same thing…