Introduction -- Capitalism, slavery and revolution -- Black Reconstruction and the unfinished business of the Bourgeois Revolution of 1776 -- Prelude to U.S. imperialism -- Jim Crow and the moribund stage of capitalism -- Monopoly capitalist attempts to harness Black Liberation -- The color line/colonial problem, World War and the Bolshevik Revolution -- The contributions of Black Revolutionaries to the Communist International are deeply rooted in the historic struggle for Black Liberation -- Black Liberation and class struggle during the Great Depression, the rise of fascism and World War II -- The question of Black Liberation and the struggle against imperialism: post-World War II era -- Seeing the present in the candid light of the past -- Epilogue -- Figures -- Works cited

"This book is about the historic relationship between two ... revolutionary struggles: the struggle for Black Liberation and the struggle for socialism in the United States"--Page 4 of cover