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A Dancer in the Revolution: Stretch Johnson, Harlem Communist at the Cotton Club

Johnson, Howard Eugene; Johnson, Wendy; Naison, Mark D.; Naison, Mark D

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- Part I -- 1 Early Days -- 2 Harlem and the Cotton Club -- 3 Moving Up -- 4 Show Biz -- 5 Joining the Party -- Part II -- 6 The Young Communist League -- 7 The War Years -- 8 Back Home -- 9 La Lucha Continua -- Part III -- 10 Starting Over -- 11 Malimwu -- 12 The Cotton Club Revisited -- 13 Martin Luther King Day in Hawaii -- 14 Paris to Texas and Home Again -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Map of Harlem Nightclubs in the 1930s and '40s -- Howard E. Johnson's Curriculum Vitae -- Index

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A dancer in the revolution: Stretch Johnson, Harlem communist at the Cotton Club

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Johnson, Howard Eugene; Johnson, Wendy

The life of Howard Johnson, nicknamed ""Stretch"" because of his height (6'5""), epitomizes the cultural and political odyssey of a generation of African Americans who transformed the United States from a closed society to a multiracial democracy. Johnson's long-awaited memoir traces his path from firstborn of a multiclass/multiethnic"" family in New Jersey to dancer in Harlem's Cotton Club to communist youth leader and, later, professor of Black studies. A Dancer in the Revolution is a powerful statement about Black resilience and triumph amid subtle and explicit racism in the United States