Sentence examples for white communist from inspiring English sources

Born in Edinburgh in 1961, Kay was adopted by a white communist couple and brought up in Glasgow, later discussing the rarity at that time of being a mixed-race child brought up by white parents.

Kay, who is black, gay, and the adopted child of white Communist parents, believes that one reason she was chosen as Makar, in addition to her talents as a poet and as a communicator, was that those doing the choosing "liked the idea of the face of Scotland changing".

In June 1961, he persuaded the ANC leadership to pursue a course of violence, with himself as the head of MK, and immediately recruited Sisulu and the white communist Joe Slovo to lead a force whose cutting edge was a small group of explosives experts.

Mandela went on to become close to the white Communists and Asians in the A.N.C., but "believed the struggle was the struggle of black Africans, first and foremost".

Africanist suspicion of nonracialism and hostility to white Communists, however, led to the formation of the rival Pan-Africanist Congress PACC) in 1959.

Eventually he is caught; he is defended by two white communists; their efforts fail; and Bigger is found guilty — guilty, above all, of the two crimes he has not committed, the rape and murder of the white girl".

But on the other hand, there is the bossy narrowness of other white Communists, the jargon of dogma, the lack of escape and the sheer brutalizing effect of the race conflict.

The case was about the North against the South, black against white, Communists, the NAACP.

But Trumbo, like most white communists, was very pro-Negro and spoke out strongly for civil rights and Black Liberation.

Most early MK members were white communists; after hiding in communist Wolfie Kodesh's flat in Berea, Mandela moved to the communist-owned Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, there joined by Raymond Mhlaba, Slovo and Bernstein, who put together the MK constitution.

Gordimer remarked that, more than just a story about white communists in South Africa, Burger's Daughter is about "commitment" and what she as a writer does to "make sense of life".