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7 The War Years

© 2022 Fordham University Press, New York, USA

© 2022 Fordham University Press, New York, USA

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Foreword ix
  4. Acknowledgments xv
  5. Timeline xxi
  6. Part I
  7. 1 Early Days 1
  8. 2 Harlem and the Cotton Club 26
  9. 3 Moving Up 37
  10. 4 Show Biz 46
  11. 5 Joining the Party 53
  12. Part II
  13. 6 The Young Communist League 63
  14. 7 The War Years 79
  15. 8 Back Home 99
  16. 9 La Lucha Continua 112
  17. Part III
  18. 10 Starting Over 133
  19. 11 Malimwu 155
  20. 12 The Cotton Club Revisited 160
  21. 13 Martin Luther King Day in Hawaii 162
  22. 14 Paris to Texas and Home Again 166
  23. Notes 169
  24. Further Reading 175
  25. Map of Harlem Nightclubs in the 1930s and ’40s 176
  26. Howard E. Johnson’s Curriculum Vitae 179
  27. Index 183
A Dancer in the Revolution
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823256563-010

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Foreword ix
  4. Acknowledgments xv
  5. Timeline xxi
  6. Part I
  7. 1 Early Days 1
  8. 2 Harlem and the Cotton Club 26
  9. 3 Moving Up 37
  10. 4 Show Biz 46
  11. 5 Joining the Party 53
  12. Part II
  13. 6 The Young Communist League 63
  14. 7 The War Years 79
  15. 8 Back Home 99
  16. 9 La Lucha Continua 112
  17. Part III
  18. 10 Starting Over 133
  19. 11 Malimwu 155
  20. 12 The Cotton Club Revisited 160
  21. 13 Martin Luther King Day in Hawaii 162
  22. 14 Paris to Texas and Home Again 166
  23. Notes 169
  24. Further Reading 175
  25. Map of Harlem Nightclubs in the 1930s and ’40s 176
  26. Howard E. Johnson’s Curriculum Vitae 179
  27. Index 183
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