“Mulzac’s [maritime] union, and the broader Black left — the National Negro Congress, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, and the Council on African Affairs, for example, all of which Mulzac supported — were early targets as the tide turned to Cold War and Red Scare”
It was late October 1942. The crew of the Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington had just “lashed down the last crate of deck cargo.” Like other World War II Liberty Ships, they were ready to make the peri...
