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unusual facts about American Communist Party



Dissident Gardens

But Rose gets the last laugh, because Khrushchev's secret denouncements of Stalin are revealed in 1956, leaving the American Communist Party in utter disarray.

Dutty Boukman

A fictionalized version of Boukman appears as the title character in American Communist writer Guy Endore's novel Babouk, a leftist and anti-capitalist parable about the Haitian Revolution.

In Dubious Battle

The central figure of the story is an activist for "the Party" (possibly the American Communist Party or the Industrial Workers of the World, although it is never specifically named in the novel) who is organizing a major strike by fruit pickers, seeking thus to attract followers to his cause.

Kensington, California

During World War II, J. Robert Oppenheimer lived at 10 Kenilworth Court where he held top level meetings of the American Communist Party, while simultaneously working on top secret atomic bomb work, and denying any involvement with such political groups.


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Morris Childs

Joining Childs in the Soviet Union as an official representative of the American Communist Party was James E. Jackson, Jr., husband of Esther Cooper Jackson.