“In this era, groups of CP members and sympathizers would regularly congregate in Washington Park and march to the house of a person being evicted, sometimes in the hundreds, to move their furniture back into the building and turn their utilities back on. This became so common that when parents on the South Side feared an eviction, they would tell their kids to “run quick and find the Reds!”
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Learning from Multiracial Radical Organizing in 1930s Chicago | Rampant
In the 1930s the Communist Party in Chicago was a vibrant, multiracial organization with thousands of members that actively fought against racism and class inequality. There is much socialists today can learn from its successes and failures.