Nelson Peery

Nelson Peery (June 22, 1923 – September 6, 2015) was an American political activist and author. Peery served in the U.S. Army in World War II and spent over 60 years of his civilian life in the revolutionary movement. He was active in the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), the Provisional Organizing Committee to Reconstitute the Marxist–Leninist Party (POC), the Communist League (CL), the Communist Labor Party (CLP), and the League of Revolutionaries for a New America (LRNA). Quotes The myth of Minnesota liberalism made the reality of rigid segregation in the city all the more unbearable, but since they knew very little of the fight for freedom raging through China, India, the East Indies, Indochina and the Philippines, they could only imagine a fight within the system. Peery describing his encounters with his hometown community after returning from military service in WWII. Black Radical: The Education of an American Revolutionary. New York: W. W. Norton. (2007). Chapter 2. Between June 1945 and September 1946, fifty-six African American veterans were lynched. The actual death toll was far greater. The Klan, as part of and in league with the police, had developed a terrible new weapon. Outspoken Blacks simply disappeared. Black Radical: The Education of an American Revolutionary. New York: W. W. Norton. (2007). Chapter 3. External links Category:Political activists Category:Civil rights activists Category:Political authors from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Socialists from the United States Category:Marxists from the United States Category:African American socialists Category:1923 births Category:2015 deaths