Part Two: Black Antifascists In the Spanish Civil War

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🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Jordan from The Dugout continues teaching Margaret about the long history of Black antifascism that brought people to fight in the Spanish Civil War.

James Yates, Mississippi to Madrid
Salaria Kea, “Doing Christ’s Duty”
Canute Frankson’s letter from Spain (1937)
“The Good Fight” (Documentary)
Peter N. Carroll, The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
ALBA-Valb.org archives
Trussel.com, “The Peekskill Riots”
National Archives & Harlem Oral History Project
Kuykendall, Ronald A. "African Blood Brotherhood: Independent Marxism During the Harlem Renaissance." Western Journal of Black Studies 26 (Spring 2002):
African Blood Brotherhood. The Principles of the African Blood Brotherhood. New York: African Blood Brotherhood,
David Motadel, Islam and the European Empires (2014)

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to cool people distract themselves from the apocalypse by reading history, your podcast for reading history instead of thinking about the apocalypse. I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and that's always what this show is called. And also, I have a guest,
0:23.6	but the guest is sort of the host. And that guest is Jordan. Hi, Jordan. Hello. How's this
0:30.5	totally different day? This is a bit's kind of old. Everyone knows that we record on the same day. And then
0:36.0	I just find that amusing.
0:38.1	I like the little peek behind the curtain.
0:40.3	Yeah, I mean, I'm glad today I get to be the time traveler instead of being time traveled on.
0:45.6	That's true.
0:46.8	Yeah.
0:47.5	And I don't have to wait until today in order to hear all these things.
0:50.8	I get to hear them now.
0:52.5	But the other person who is on the call is Sophie. Hi, Sophie.
0:56.5	Hi. Sophie's our producer. That's me. We also have an audio engineer named Rory. Hi, Rory. Hi, Rory.
1:07.8	And our theme music was written for By On Woman. and this is part two of a two-parter
1:13.1	about the anti-fascist black history
1:16.5	of the going from resistance
1:19.3	in the slave nightmare world
1:21.6	of the United States over to
1:23.5	I always hear people say the sands of Spain
1:26.1	I haven't spent a lot of time in Spain.
1:28.4	Maybe there's a sands there.
1:30.1	I don't know.
1:32.0	Yeah, I don't know too much about the topography of Spain either, but I never really think
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