"The myth of Minnesota liberalism made the reality of rigid segregation in the city all the more unbearable, but since they knew very little of the fight for freedom raging through China, India, the East Indies, Indochina and the Philippines, they could only imagine a fight within the system."
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Nelson Peery
Nelson Peery (June 22, 1923 – September 6, 2015) was an American political activist and author. Peery served in the U.S. Army in World War II and spent over 60 years of his civilian life in the revolutionary movement. He was active in the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), the Provisional Organizing Committee to Reconstitute the Marxist–Leninist Party (POC), the Communist League (CL), the Communist Labor Party (CLP), and the League of Revolutionaries for a New America (LRNA).
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