The communist party gained traction during times of economic chaos. The most prime example being the Great Depression. According to Hosea Hudson in the Narrative of Hosea Hudson the Great Depression and Communist Party dispelled the myth of racism to White people. Hudson states that the Great Depression equalized working class white and black people as working class white people had to experience the same hardships that black people did in the south. They had to experience waking the streets with no job while they had no money to buy food to feed their families. They had to experience getting evicted from their home for failing to pay rent. They had faced the same experiences that black people had been facing for decades. The Great Depression…show more content… While some black nationalists found some of the ideas of the communist party tangible, majority of African- American Leaders were unimpressed with its efforts to reach out as they did not recognize the long standing racial issues that needed to be overcome (Naison 325). In addition, some non-nationalist black figures such as writer Langston Hughes and Richard Wright either never joined the Communist Party of the United States, even though they believed in some of the ideals of Communist Party or they broke with the Party after a few short years. In the 1930s many black members joined and left the Party as they were first impressed with the desire of the Communist Party to work alongside black people but later turned away due to the Communist party’s undemocratic ways and dislike for black solidarity in the Communist Party (Naison 327). In addition Communist Claudia Jones was unimpressed with the neglect of the issues of the Black Women in the communist movement. Jones claimed that while she believed that black women would benefit from being a part of the Communist Party and the Communist Party could benefit from the inclusion of black women, there were some problems facing black women that the communist Party would need to address (Jones 3-4). For example, Claudia Jones believes that the Communist Party…show more content… This was unlike the Republican, Democrat, or the socialist party. The Communist ideals especially resonated with Claude McKay, a famous Harle, Renaissance poet and member of the communist party. He criticized black people who were not members of the communist party who accepted the leadership of white republican or socialists. McKay argues that the “the Negro Communist will see that his theories are far ahead of the masses of his own race and also the pretty Bourgeois Negro intelligentia and white liberal reformers who are the voice of the Negro Masses.”(McKay 89). He, like other black communists did not want to rely on wealthier people, black or white, to fight for his rights. He would rather voice his own opinions. While McKay embraced the ideals of the Communist Party throughout his life, other black leaders were suspicious of any hidden motives the Communist Party might have. This lead to many black people to eventually leave the party after using the organization to pursue the advancing Civil Rights Movement (Naison 329). Before the Bus Boycott of 1955 there were few widespread organization among black people. The Communist Party gave black people a place in organizing activities and/or equal rights demonstrations, and in doing so it made it possible for influential black leaders to emerge who would replace white people as leaders in the
