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        "alt": "Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression is a 1990 book on U.S. history by Robin D. G. Kelley. It describes labor, racial and social history in Alabama during the Great Depression, focusing on black communist organizing.\n\nPREFACE TO THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION • XV\nin my journal as \"a tiny, run-down shack with battered wooden walls, a rusted tin roof that had begun to cave in, and a porch stocked with three rickety chairs.\"* He fed me a huge lunch of collard greens, beans, Wonder Bread, fried chicken, and a slice of cake. We ate outside and talked for a while; when it became unbearably cold, we moved inside. I sat on his bed as he slouched in a wooden chair next to me. A faded picture of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was tacked to the wall above his head. He told stories about the 1935 cotton pickers* strike, Stalin's pledge to send troops to Mobile to help black sharecroppers if things got out of hand, and the night a well-armed group of women set out to avenge their comrades who had been beaten or killed during the strike. When I asked Mr. Johnson how the union succeeded in winning some of their demands, without the slightest hesitation he reached into the drawer of his nightstand and pulled out a dog-eared copy of\nV. I. Lenin's What Is to Be Done and a box of shotgun shells, set both firmly on the bed next to me, and said, \"Right thar, theory and practice. That's how we did it. Theory and practice.\"",
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  "text": "\u003e I asked Mr. Johnson how the union succeeded … without the slightest hesitation he reached into the drawer … and pulled out a dog-eared copy of V. I. Lenin's What Is To Be Done and a box of shotgun shells … and said, \"Right thar, theory and practice. That's how we did it. Theory and practice.\""
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