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"The extreme importance of this book is that in one longish
volume Haywood has given us an indispensable history, as reference
and sum-up of practical struggles, of not only his particular
thirty-six years in the Communist Party USA, including his
road into and out of it, but equally has given us a good portion
of political history...The chronicle of Haywood's life, form
his birth in South Omaha and his continuous traveling throughout
this country and internationally, searching, struggling, organizing,
the interwoven lives of his family, comrades, and the endless
stream of personalities he encounters, Haywood makes a powerful
political journal...The sweep of history and event contained
in this book will fascinate any serious reader."
?Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Daggers and Javelins:
Essays. New York: Quill, 1984.
"Black Bolshevik is the powerful story of one Black man's
search for answers...from growing up in Omaha, to Minnesota,
to Chicago, to Harlem, to France and World War I, to Africa,
to Moscow, and back to Harlem USA...Struggling every step
of the way, this is not merely a search for answers for 'self,'
but answers for all oppressed people whom Franz Fanon has
called 'the wretched of the earth.'"
?John Oliver Killens, novelist
"This is the first extensive autobiography of a Black member
of the American Communist Party...This book needs to be read
for the lessons it teaches for today."
?John Henrik Clarke, Prof. of African History,
Hunter College of CUNY
"Harry Haywood's autobiography is indispensable for students
of the history of the Communist Party and of Afro-American
radicalism."
?Mark Naison, Prof. of Afro-American Studies,
Fordham University.
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