Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights,1919-1950

Author is Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore,Yale history professor. Norton. 642 pp. $39.95 Reviewed by Raymond Arsenault, Professor at University of South Florida and author of "Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice." Published by Book World,Sunday,Jan. 13,2008 in The Washington Post. Diversity is good economics in USA. Full utilization of all Americans to promote economic growth is top priority to support and defend the Constitution,the supreme law of the land. Such commitment is part and parcel for social justice in the 21st century as the world is watching!
Forgotten Revolutionaries: How Southern communists, socialists and expatriates paved the way for Civil Rights. 1,200 people turned out for a 1933 rally in New York City for the Scottsboro boys, organized by the International Labor Defense and backed by the Communist Party. In the conclusion of the review: "No one who reads this eye-opening book will come away with anything less than a renewed appreciation for the complex origins and evolution of a freedom struggle that changed the South, the nation and the world." Here we can detect that Sino-American economics is resulted from the Long March for justice leading to the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Such liberation movement started a new China in 1949. Needless to say,current on-going US-China economic relations are attributable to PRC's economic achievement to replace KMT as the leading party for China. However,KMT in Taiwan won the election over DPP on January 12,2008 as evidence of folks in Taiwan to support the KMT's aim to have good relations with China over the so-called independence movement condemned by the United States as provocation to peace and development in Taiwan strait.
Francis Shieh,a lifelong student of economics desiring to see peace with harmony for all ethnic Chinese on both sides of Taiwan strait with economic development in East Asia and the world. January 12, 2008.