Books by Mary Stanton

Offers the first narrative history of the American communist movement in the South during the 1930s. Written from the perspective of the district 17 (CPUSA) Reds who worked primarily in Alabama, the book acquaints a new generation with the impact of the Great Depression on postwar black and white, young and old, urban and rural Americans.

Tells the story of Bill Moore, a white mail carrier, and his freedom walk from Chattanooga to Jackson to hand-deliver a plea for racial tolerance to Ross Barnett, the staunchly segregationist governor of Mississippi. Moore kept a journal that detailed his goal. Using it, along with interviews and extensive newspaper and newsreel reports, Mary Stanton documents this phenomenal freedom walk.