{"product_id":"gathering-storm-a-story-of-the-black-belt-hardcover","title":"Gathering Storm: A Story of the Black Belt - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMyra Page\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael P. Bibler\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis novel is one of the most clear-eyed and compelling works of the Great Depression. As Marge Crenshaw grows up in the cotton mills, she learns to fight the forces of racial, sexual, and class oppression that hold her, her family, and her community back. With her brother Tom, who has joined the Communist Party, Marge eventually becomes a union organizer who leads the famous strike at Loray Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina--a real-life strike in 1929 that claimed numerous lives, including that of organizer and songwriter Ella May Wiggins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMyra Page was an active member of the Communist Party, and \u003ci\u003eGathering Storm\u003c\/i\u003e stands out from other Gastonia novels because it was printed in the Soviet Union. Yet this is not a novel about outsider agitators infiltrating a peaceful Southern town. Page was born in Virginia and worked as a labor organizer throughout the South. And as Marge's heart-wrenching story demonstrates, the fight against the forces of capitalist exploitation and inequality was entirely homegrown. \u003ci\u003eGathering Storm\u003c\/i\u003e is a bona fide Communist novel; but with the story of Marge and her family at its heart, it is also a deeply intimate novel that proves the personal is always political.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMyra Page (1897-1993) was a twentieth-century American writer, journalist, and noted Communist. Michael P. Bibler is associate professor at Louisiana State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 354\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 21, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42433089765456,"sku":"9781469691084","price":185.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/vLVnOicouT9781469691084.webp?v=1780444270","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/gathering-storm-a-story-of-the-black-belt-hardcover","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}