Season 3

The Lit Review · Episode 49 - Hammer & Hoe with Bettina Johnson

​Episode 49: Hammer & Hoe
​with Bettina Johnson​

There’s importance in collaboration and experimentation when it comes to organizing. But what does organizing around super radical ideas in very practical and grounded ways in a community you’re not from look like? We chat with Bettina Johnson, co-founder of Liberation Library and member of Chicago Afrosocialists & Socialists of Color of the DSA, about the book Hammer & Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Robin D.G. Kelly.

​Tune in to our first episode of the season to hear what the Alabama Communist Party can teach us about our social movements today.
 
Key Questions: 

1. Why did the Communist Party go to the South?
2. What did the organizing strategy look like on-the-ground for the Communists?
3. What kind of repression did Alabama Communists face?
4. What did the roles of young people and women look like in the CP?
5. What can newly radicalized folks learn from this book?

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