RICHARD MOORE

(Richard Benjamin Moore)


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Richard Moore

We must remember that a verdict of expulsion in disgrace from the Communist Party is considered by a class conscious worker as worse than death at the hands of the bourgeois oppressors. As for myself, I would rather have my head severed from my body by the capitalist lynchers than be expelled from the Communist International.
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Richard Moore, a black attorney, was representing August Yokinen, an immigrant Finn who belonged to the Communist Party, before a “Workers Court” in Harlem, New York. Yokinen was charged with treating three Black men with a lack of courtesy and accused of being a racist, capitalist, and a white chauvinist. Moore requested that Yokinen be given clemency seeing how expulsion from the party would be too extreme. The “worker jury,” however, unanimously decided to expel him.

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Richard Benjamin Moore was a Barbados-born Afro-Caribbean civil rights activist, writer and prominent socialist. He was also one of the earliest advocates of the term African American, as opposed to Negro or "black".