and to my brother Otto Hall, all former members of the African Blood Brotherhood.
To Harrison George, outstanding son of the working class, charter member of the CPUSA, former editor of the Daily Worker and the Peoples' World, who gave his all to the Communist movement and died alone, victimized for his "premature" antirevisionism.
A special tribute to my comrades in the battles against revisionism within the CPUSA and after: Al Lannon, veteran director af the Waterfront Section and member of the Central Committee of the CPUSA; Charles Lo man, executive secretary af the Brooklyn Party Organization; Isidore Beagun, executive secretary af the Bronx Party Organization; Allen and Pearl Lawes, Al and Ruth Hamlin, Olga and Victor Agosto. And to my wife, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, my closest collaborator from 1953
through 1964 in the writing af manuscripts as well as in the political battles, who has since established her own reputation as historian and essayist.
A tribute to Ed Strong, former communist youth leader and director of the S outhern Negro Y outh Congress, w hose premature death in the mid-fifties cut short his uncompromising stand within the Central Committee for the right of self-determination for the Black nation.
To the editors af Soulbook Magazine, who published my writings in 1965-66 and invited me to Oakland, California, in the spring of 1966 during the formative stages of the Black Panther mavement.
To Vincent Harding, who provided me with funds to return to the U .S. from Mexrco in 1970 and gave me technical and material assistance to begin this autobiography.
Thanks to John Henrik Clarke and Francisco and Elizabeth Cattlett de Mora for their enthusiasm and moral support.
To Robert Warner, Director of the Michigan Historical Collections, for his help and his sensitivity to the need to collect and preserve historically relevant materials from the Black mavement in the United States.
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