Review of "American Negro Problems," Workers Library Publishers

 Review of

American Negro Problems, Workers Library Publishers

Four out of five stars

Must be read in the historical context

 America of the first three decades of the twentieth century was one of ingrained segregation, there were many laws, written and assumed, designed to keep black people in a form of servitude. With little movement by the political parties towards ending this situation, some blacks turned to the small, but often vocal American communist party. 

 This short pamphlet is designed to encourage blacks to support and join the communist party. The promise is that the party is pledged to work for equal rights and privileges. If you read this pamphlet without knowledge of the historical context of the times, you will likely not like it. However, if you do have that knowledge, it is easy to see the appeal of the communist party. At a time when all the entrenched aspects of American society are united in keeping blacks down, the communist party seemed to provide them with the only hope to achieve a measure of equality.