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Autobiography 1988
Autobiography 1988

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Hodee Edwards' Autobiography 1988 takes you on a journey across vast social, political and geographical spaces, starting with her privileged origins in a wealthy Jewish family in Boston, where she was taught to make up her own mind and never be afraid to tell it like it is. She went to Radcliffe before it was officially part of Harvard and graduated with honors in physics. She discovered Marxism and the Communist movement of the 1930 and joined up. She met her husband, Harvey Richards, a merchant seaman with an 8th grade education who was also a Communist Party member. They moved to the West Coast where she had two sons. She wrote war news for the Communist Party newspaper the Daily People's World under a man's name. Divorcing after the war, she remarried another member of the Communist Party, an Afro American man, George Edwards. They quit the CP but nevertheless suffered the harassment of the racist anti-communist 1950s. Disillusioned, they left the USA for Ghana in West Africa in 1961 with their 11 year old daughter to lend their support to the newly independent nation. George worked as a plumber there and Hodee resumed her journalism career. She left Ghana for England after her marriage broke up and after the 1966 coup against Nkrumah isolated her from any further work as a journalist. After six years in London, she returned to the West Coast where she lived until 2012. Her autobiography was written in 1988 when she was 73 years old.
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