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This book fascinates by entwining personal history with wider US history; the interviews evoke the atmosphere of racism in the South and the frightening isolation caused by the McCarthy witchhunts but also the warmth of comradeship and the persistence of their vision of a better world. --Socialist Review A welcome addition to the literature on southern radicalism. --Journal of Southern History A powerful reminder of the sacrifices made to make racial and labor justice a reality. --People's Weekly World

"""An extraordinary set of reminiscences, beautifully put together by an extremely sensitive, even gifted interviewer. It is a jewel."" Glenda Gilmore, author of Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 ""With extremely rich, intelligent, and honest reflections, A Red Family speaks to a host of issues that are relevant to an important emerging debate among historians of American labor and the Left. Junius Scales's recollections address fundamental problems in the history of American communism in a way that should prove valuable to historians who want to avoid both uncritical adulation and the 'red menace' caricature on offer in much of the current work."" Brian Kelly, author of Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21 ""Junius Scales is a fascinating character whose experiences tell us so much about his period, and Friedman's family approach opens up new angles on the story."" James R. Barrett, author of William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism"

An extraordinary set of reminiscences, beautifully put together by an extremely sensitive, even gifted interviewer. It is a jewel. Glenda Gilmore, author of Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 With extremely rich, intelligent, and honest reflections, A Red Family speaks to a host of issues that are relevant to an important emerging debate among historians of American labor and the Left. Junius Scales's recollections address fundamental problems in the history of American communism in a way that should prove valuable to historians who want to avoid both uncritical adulation and the 'red menace' caricature on offer in much of the current work. Brian Kelly, author of Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21 Junius Scales is a fascinating character whose experiences tell us so much about his period, and Friedman's family approach opens up new angles on the story. James R. Barrett, author of William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism

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Mickey Friedman is a documentary filmmaker and writer and the founder of Blue Hill Films, where he has directed several films, including Good Things to Life: GE, PCBs, and Our Town. He lives in Massachusetts. Gail O'Brien is a professor emerita of history at North Carolina State University and the author of The Color of the Law: Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South.

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