Vol. 74/No. 22      June 7, 2010

“This is history they never teach us,” said one as he carefully studied photographs in the book. Having been a farmer, he was interested in the struggle for agrarian reform in the United States following the Civil War and the struggle by Black farmers today against racist discrimination by the government.

Two other workers were interested in the history of working-class struggles in this country, in particular the role of Black workers in the vanguard of major class battles. One, who has been studying the book in English, bought a second copy in Spanish.

—Amanda Ulman

Omaha
Recently I made a follow-up visit to the Aframerican Book Store in Omaha, Nebraska. The owner had purchased a copy of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power shortly after the book’s release last February. He invited me to display the book at the annual celebration of Malcolm X’s birthday.

One hundred attended the May 22 event organized by the Malcolm X Memorial Foundation at Malcolm’s birth site.

While looking at the photos in the book, one veteran Black activist said that it should be in every school and community library to teach the truth about the source of racist discrimination and those who have historically fought against it. Three copies of the book were sold, one with an introductory subscription to the Militant. Two others ordered the book.

The same evening a Workers Power book was sold to a teacher at a fundraiser in Lincoln, Nebraska, for the case of Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa (formerly known as David Rice). Both are former Omaha chapter Black Panthers and have been in prison since 1970, framed-up in the 1970 bombing death of an Omaha cop. Supporters of their case have been fighting for a new trial for nearly four decades.

—Joe Swanson
 
 
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