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Peter Blackman (1909–1993) was a Caribbean communist, scholar, civil rights activist, and Christian missionary. After challenging a racist rule in which white missionaries earned more than their black counterparts, Blackman resigned as a priest and dedicated himself to both communism and black civil rights activism. He was a key member of the Negro Welfare Association and the League of Coloured Peoples, and an active member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). During his career as a communist party activist, he became close friends with American civil rights leaders Paul Robeson and W. E. B. Du Bois. He worked as a radio broadcaster for the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) during the Second World War for their Caribbean services, however in 1950 he was fired from his job for h

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  • Peter Blackman (1909–1993) was a Caribbean communist, scholar, civil rights activist, and Christian missionary. After challenging a racist rule in which white missionaries earned more than their black counterparts, Blackman resigned as a priest and dedicated himself to both communism and black civil rights activism. He was a key member of the Negro Welfare Association and the League of Coloured Peoples, and an active member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). During his career as a communist party activist, he became close friends with American civil rights leaders Paul Robeson and W. E. B. Du Bois. He worked as a radio broadcaster for the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) during the Second World War for their Caribbean services, however in 1950 he was fired from his job for h (en)
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  • Black civil rights and communist activism (en)
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  • Stalingrad (en)
  • Footprints, (en)
  • In Memory of Claudia Jones, (en)
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