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35% OFF January Book of the Month! “The American Revolution” by James Boggs

The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook

The American Revolution
Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook

By James Boggs
With an Introduction by Grace Lee Boggs and additional historical and personal commentary

James Boggs, born in Marion Junction, Alabama, never dreamed of becoming President or a locomotive engineer. He grew up in a world where the white folks are gentlemen by day and Ku Klux Klanners by night. After graduating from Dunbar High School in Bessemer in 1937, Boggs took the first freight train north, bumming his way through the western part of the country, working in the hop fields of the state of Washington, cutting ice in Minnesota, and finally ending up in Detroit where he worked for the WPA, until the Second World War gave him a chance to enter the Chrysler auto plant. In 1963, drawing on his own experience as a factory worker and radical militant, he wrote these pages.

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