American Revolution - James Boggs

James Boggs, born in Marion Junction, Alabama in
1919, never dreamed of becoming President or a locomotive engineer. He
grew up in a world where the white folks are gentlemen by day and Ku
Klux Klanners at night. Marion Junction is in Dallas County where as
late as 1963, although African-Americans
made up over 57 percent of the
total county population of 57,000, only 130 were registered voters.
After graduating from Dunbar High School in Bessemer, Alabama, in 1937,
Boggs took the first freight train north, bumming his way through the
western part of the country, working in the hop fields of the state of
Washington, cutting ice in Minnesota, and finally ending up in Detroit
where he worked on WPA until the Second World War gave him a chance to
enter the Chrysler auto plant.
Both a keen analysis of U.S. society
and a passionate call for revolutionary struggle, The American
Revolution has been translated into French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish,
Catalan, and Portuguese.