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Book Review


Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica. By Gerald Horne. (New York: New York University Press, 2005. xvi, 359 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8147-3668-8.)
The Congress of Industrial Organizations (cio) incorporated African Americans, Puerto Ricans, and other ethnic minorities, as well as labor radicals, into the mainstream of the union movement. These workers of color and the Left played a crucial role in the cio's success. But when the cio purged alleged Communists and fellow travelers after 1948, it killed off many of the unions and leaders that had done the most in labor's fight for civil rights. Among them was Ferdinand Smith, who, as secretary-treasurer of the National Maritime Union (NMU), was the most prominent and openly leftist black trade unionist of his era. . . .
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