Vito Anthony Marcantonio
Lawyer and former United States RepresentativeWikipedia
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Sep 21, 2026
Daniele BolelliHOST
As mentioned earlier, Italians had had generally good relations with African Americans.
Daniele BolelliHOST
Even as late as the 1930s and 1940s, among the men in U.S. most dedicated to championing civil rights for African Americans was Vito Marcantonio, the congressman who represented New York's East Harlem, and its population made up largely of Italians, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans.
Daniele BolelliHOST
Marcantonio campaigned non-stop against the discriminatory poll tax in southern states and did his best to make lynching a federal crime.
Daniele BolelliHOST
None of this would do if Italians were to be accepted as mainstream whites.
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Washington places embassies across the Middle East on heightened alert as Trump, back early from Camp David, says he is in deciding mode on Iran and weighs a possible meeting with President Pazeshkian at the UN.
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Bill Kaufman revisits the strange career of Vito Marcantonio, the closest thing to an actual communist ever sent to Congress, and suggests today's DSA panic obscures a more interesting American radical tradition.
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And now for the details.
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we begin with the resolution of what had been called the Great Greenland Crisis.