Born into a Georgia sharecropper family, Hosea Hudson moved to Birmingham, Alabama, to work in the steel mills in the turbulent 1930s and "40s and became a member of the Communist Party. This collaborative oral autobiography gives a vivid picture of the life and times of a black radical. Other books by Nell Irvin Painter include "Standing at Armageddon" and "Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction".