The Crusader (African Blood Brotherhood). Vol. 3 No. 2. October, 1920.

Contents: Editorials: Housing Shortage, Helping Proscription, “Africa for Africans”, Christianity as Propaganda, Before It’s Too Late!, A Slave Race, The Black Star Line, The Negro on the Political Ash-Heap by Rev. Franklin Peters, American Kultur in the Island of Haiti, Time by William H. Briggs, Haiti and the Black Star Line (Haitian Letter), Baker’s School of Photography, Negro Musicians What of the Future? by Chas. A. Henry, The Negro Press by Lynward F. Coles, The Birth of a Wild Flower by Frederic H. Williams, Autumn Leaves by Ben E. Burrell, Suppressed Fact by William H. Dammond, Letters.

The Crusader was published in New York City between 1918 and 1922, becoming the paper of the The African Blood Brotherhood for African Liberation and Redemption and the earliest Black Communist publication in the US. Founded by Cyril V Briggs, who had arrived to the city from the Caribbean in 1905, at first it was the journal of the Hamitic League of the World, a Pan-African group led by George Well Parker. Increasingly in sympathy with the Russian Revolution and new Communist International, in October 1919 the paper announced the African Blood Brotherhood and its adherence to Marxism. In June 1921, The Crusader officially became the journal of the ABB and the Black publication of the US Communist movement. Antipathy with Marcus Garvey’s movement led the Communist Party, at the insistence of Claude McKay, to withdraw support and Its last issue was in January, 1922. The African Blood Brotherhood with dissolve into the Workers Party of America with many activists joining the American Negro Labor Congress in 1925.

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