The history of a legendary left-wing summer camp for kids in New Jersey. Founded during the Great Depression, the WOrkers CHildren's CAmp flourished for twenty years. Paul Robeson was the camp's great hero and visited often. During the height of the Cold War Wo-Chi-Ca was forced to fold its tents forever, done in by a virulent combination of McCarthyism and polio.
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... a much-needed record that will become part of the permanent record of the cultural achievement of the US left. -- MARK SOLOMON, author of
...a wonderfully affectionate history of a uniquely American place where ideals were put into action. -- BLACK OAK BOOKS, BERKELEY
...scores of fond remembrances in this wonderfully affectionate history of a uniquely American place where ideals were put into action. -- Black Oak Books, Berkeley
A delight! -- THE NATION
Struggle for racial equality, search for a social utopia... A work of art. The stories brought me to tears. -- Violet Crabtree
Wonderful! A fantastic job in putting together the history and the stories. -- PAUL C. MISHLER author of
...a wonderfully affectionate history of a uniquely American place where ideals were put into action. -- BLACK OAK BOOKS, BERKELEY
...scores of fond remembrances in this wonderfully affectionate history of a uniquely American place where ideals were put into action. -- Black Oak Books, Berkeley
A delight! -- THE NATION
Struggle for racial equality, search for a social utopia... A work of art. The stories brought me to tears. -- Violet Crabtree
Wonderful! A fantastic job in putting together the history and the stories. -- PAUL C. MISHLER author of
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June Levine attended Wo-Chi-Ca for eight years as camper and staff member. Gene Gordon participated in the Great Peace March for Nuclear Disarmament, a nine-month, 3,700 walk across the United States in 1986.
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Not just any ol' camp,
By Jay King (Santa Fe, NM United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tales of Wo-Chi-Ca: Blacks, Whites and Reds at Camp (Hardcover)
Tales of Wo-Chi-Ca showed me, intimately from the inside, an amazingly exciting and influential radical-left children's camp of the 1930's and '40's. The book gave me a crystal-clear image of the beautiful and loving side of the old radical left that the ugliness of McCarthyism undermined. Just as a good read, the book kept moving me and causing me to tell my wife about what I had just read.
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One of Kind Must Read for Cold War Historians and the Curious,
By SuperAmanda "Amanda" (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tales of Wo-Chi-Ca: Blacks, Whites and Reds at Camp (Hardcover)
This book is an incredible eye witness account of progressive children's education and summer camps in upstate New York Post World War Two. This is a one of kind cold war history book, featuring appearances by Paul Robeson, Canada Lee and Pete Seeger among the many colorful campers and counselors who make up this, until now , untold history of racially integrated, Leftist children's camp. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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In summer, don't we long to leave behind the heat, the crowds, the noise of the city? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
concert grounds, young campers, many campers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paul Robeson, New York, Camp Wo-Chi-Ca, Communist Party, United States, Soviet Union, Canada Lee, Howard Fast, Charles White, Smith Act, Daily Wo-Chi-Can, Mother Bloor, World War, Daily Worker, Pete Seeger, Eve Levine, African American, Elizabeth Catlett, Rockwell Kent, United Nations, Camp Wyandot, Dick Crosscup, Jacob Lawrence, Irwin Silber, Jim Crow New!
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In summer, don't we long to leave behind the heat, the crowds, the noise of the city? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
concert grounds, young campers, many campers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paul Robeson, New York, Camp Wo-Chi-Ca, Communist Party, United States, Soviet Union, Canada Lee, Howard Fast, Charles White, Smith Act, Daily Wo-Chi-Can, Mother Bloor, World War, Daily Worker, Pete Seeger, Eve Levine, African American, Elizabeth Catlett, Rockwell Kent, United Nations, Camp Wyandot, Dick Crosscup, Jacob Lawrence, Irwin Silber, Jim Crow New!
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- Paul Robeson by Martin Duberman on page 164, page 209, and page 217
- Frederick Douglass by Booker T. Washington on page 12, and page 23
- The Cold War (Cambridge Perspectives in History) by Mike Sewell on page 98, and page 161
- Socialism: What Went Wrong by Irwin Silber on page 229
- Vietnam Song Book by Monthly Review Press on page 229
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