LOVETT FORT-WHITEMAN
(Lovett Huey Fort-Whiteman)
Ironically Fort-Whiteman was arrested in Moscow in one of Stalin’s massive purges and sent to a Soviet Gulag where he died of starvation. He was one of several Americans who were Stalinist victims. Ironically, he was right about Blacks and revolutionary change, but whereas he thought the “revolution” would be a socialist and communist one, the “Civil Rights Revolution” was a legal, cultural and intellectual one. However, statements like this were taken advantage of by white racists who saw in every attempt to right the wrong of racial discrimination, a communist revolution in the making.
Lovett Huey Fort-Whiteman (1889–1939) was an American political activist and Communist International functionary. The first black American to attend a Comintern training school in the Soviet Union in 1924, Fort-Whiteman was later named the first national organizer of the American Negro Labor Congress, a mass organization (front group) of the Communist Party, USA. Fort-Whiteman was once called "the reddest of the blacks" by Time magazine.
