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“By 1931, a small but determined communist presence appeared in the South, allowing the party to bring concerted attention to one of its first significant antiracist campaigns: the movement to free the ‘Scottsboro boys’”
— Nina Silber, This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America (2018)
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