Howard Johnson, A Communist in Harlem November 16, 1979

“I saw it [the Communist Party] as an action organization. Things were happening. And the kind of things that were happening I didn’t regard as subversion of the government, I regarded it as good for me and for other blacks… The struggle against Jim Crow and baseball. Putting people who had been evicted from their houses back in their buildings…[The] interracial activities that they developed” (Schrecker, 110)