Description: Ruth Horowitz writes about how the 2016 presidential campaign, and the election of Donald Trump, prompted the Sunnyside Stories Project. The rhetoric of hatred and violence normalized by the 2016 election, thrust her back into memories of childhood in Sunnyside where her school teacher parents, members of the Communist Party, were hounded by FBI. Her parents held the belief that a better world was possible, and that the Communist Party of America held the best promise to reach that goal. They were for peaceful solutions to world problems, and against nuclear armament, for better working conditions for everyone, and against the rule of Jim Crow for Afro-Americans. She writes: "Insofar as I begin to see history repeat itself in a very dark way, I am impelled to collect stories from 1940-50s Sunnyside as I am impelled to write my own. "
Summary/Description : Ruth Horowitz writes about how the 2016 presidential campaign, and the election of Donald Trump, prompted the Sunnyside Stories Project. The rhetoric of hatred and violence normalized by the 2016 election, thrust her back into memories of childhood in Sunnyside where her school teacher parents, members of the Communist Party, were hounded by FBI. Her parents held the belief that a better world was possible, and that the Communist Party of America held the best promise to reach that goal. They were for peaceful solutions to world problems, and against nuclear armament, for better working conditions for everyone, and against the rule of Jim Crow for Afro-Americans. She writes: "Insofar as I begin to see history repeat itself in a very dark way, I am impelled to collect stories from 1940-50s Sunnyside as I am impelled to write my own. "
Subject : Social justice; Anti-communist movements; Cold War; Nineteen fifties
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