Communist Organizing in the Jim Crow South
What's Not in The Great Debaters

http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/925/debaters.html
Date Written:  2008-11-21
Publisher:  Workers Vanguard
Year Published:  2008
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX16246

The Great Debaters is a well-made movie. But in its paeans to dedication and debate, it downplays the real social struggle that was going on in the U.S. in the 1930s, including by black people in the South.

Subject Headings

• Black Bloc
• Black Immigration
• Black Issues
• Black Migration
• Civil Rights Movement (U.S.)
• Communism
• Jim Crow
• Politics
• Slavery
• Social Equity