Trinidadian - Journalist | January 4, 1901 - May 19, 1989
Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
C. L. R. James
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Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.
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I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.
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I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.
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