| Description |
1 online resource (216 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- Part I -- 1 Early Days -- 2 Harlem and the Cotton Club -- 3 Moving Up -- 4 Show Biz -- 5 Joining the Party -- Part II -- 6 The Young Communist League -- 7 The War Years -- 8 Back Home -- 9 La Lucha Continua -- Part III -- 10 Starting Over -- 11 Malimwu -- 12 The Cotton Club Revisited -- 13 Martin Luther King Day in Hawaii -- 14 Paris to Texas and Home Again -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Map of Harlem Nightclubs in the 1930s and �40s -- Howard E. Johnson�s Curriculum Vitae |
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IndexA -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Photographs |
| Summary |
Discusses the life of Howard ""Stretch"" Johnson, an African American civil rights activist and educator, (1915-2000), who was a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, member of the Communist Party U.S.A. and World War II veteran |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Johnson, Howard Eugene, 1915-2000.
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| SUBJECT |
Johnson, Howard Eugene, 1915-2000 fast |
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Communist Party of the United States of America. Harlem Section -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Communist Party of the United States of America. Harlem Section fast |
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Communists -- United States -- Biography
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Social reformers -- United States -- Biography
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Tap dancers -- United States -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black.
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Communists
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Social reformers
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Tap dancers
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Johnson, Wendy
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Naison, Mark D., 1946-
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| LC no. |
2013043884 |
| ISBN |
9780823256549 |
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0823256545 |
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9780823256563 |
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0823256561 |
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9780823256556 |
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0823256553 |
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