Cyril Briggs was born in 1888 in Nevis, a Caribbean island. Cyril's father was an overseer on a plantation. Briggs hoped to start his writing career and moved to Harlem in 1905. His first writing job was at the Amsterdam News in 1912. In 1917 he founded the African Blood Brotherhood (ABB). His goal was to form a group that aimed to stop lynching and racial discrimination, and ensure voting rights for African Americans. The group also disagreed with the American involvement in WWI. In 1918, the ABB started a magazine called the Crusader. The magazine supported the Socialist Party's platform and helped exposed the lynchings in the south and the discrimination in the north. Briggs joined the Communist Party 1921, and the ABB gained Marxist influences. Briggs’ Marxist views caused problems with Marcus Garvey, the leader of the Harlem Renaissance. Garvey believed that Briggs was trying to destroy the government. Briggs eventually helped the government catch Garvey for mail fraud. The ABB began to die out by 1924 because the Communist Party’s views were changing. Official language English Political status State in the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis Premier Joseph Parry Deputy Governor-General[1] Eustace John President, Nevis Island Assembly Marjorie Morton Capital Charlestown, Nevis Area  - Total (Not ranked) 93 km² Population  - Density 12,106[2] (2006) 130/km² Airport  - Code  - Runway Vance... Harlem is a neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, long known as a major black cultural and business center. ... The New York Amsterdam News is a weekly newspaper geared for the African-American community of New York City. ... Socialist Party is the name of several different political parties around the world that are explicitly called Socialist though some are Social Democratic and some are not. ... In modern usage, a communist party is a political party which promotes communism, the sociopolitical ideology based on Marxism. ... Marcus Garvey (far right) in parade Marcus Mosiah Garvey, national hero of Jamaica, (August 17, 1887– June 10, 1940) was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, Black nationalist crusader, and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). ... Harlem Renaissance was a flowering of African American art, literature, music and culture in the United States led primarily by the African American community based in Harlem, New York City. ...

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A new book on blacks and the CPUSA http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/race/solomon.htm Black and Red http://www.tcnj.edu/~fisherc/black_and_red.html