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As the Communist Party transitioned during the Popular Front Era, District 17's work inevitably shifted. Mary Stanton, a longtime author of civil rights history and the American Left in the South, offers an additional piece to the history of the struggle for Black liberation and economic justice in I Red, Black, White: The Alabama Communist Party, 1930-1950 i . Stories of struggle like Eula May's are often left in the margins while Stanton places them within the larger narrative of District 17. [Extracted from the article]