Tales of Wo-Chi-Ca: Blacks, Whites and Reds at Camp (Hardcover)

~ June Levine (Author), Gene Gordon (Author) "In summer, don't we long to leave behind the heat, the crowds, the noise of the city?..." (more)
Key Phrases: concert grounds, young campers, many campers, Paul Robeson, New York, Camp Wo-Chi-Ca (more...)

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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

Product Description

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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Product Details

• Hardcover: 235 pages
• Publisher: Avon Springs Press; apparent 1st edition (July 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971743509
• ISBN-13: 978-0971743502
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,320,256 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not just any ol' camp, January 9, 2003

By	Jay King (Santa Fe, NM United States) - See all my reviews

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.

5.0 out of 5 stars One of Kind Must Read for Cold War Historians and the Curious, August 12, 2009

By	SuperAmanda "Amanda" (London) - See all my reviews

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!