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Examines the history of the Italian anarchist movement in New London, Connecticut.
In the early twentieth century, the Italian American radical movement thrived in industrial cities throughout the United States, including New London, Connecticut. Facing toward the Dawn tells the history of the vibrant anarchist movement that existed in New London's Fort Trumbull neighborhood for seventy years. Comprised of immigrants from the Marche region of Italy, especially the city of Fano, the Fort Trumbull anarchists fostered a solidarity subculture based on mutual aid and challenged the reigning forces of capitalism, the state, and organized religion. They began as a circle within the ideological camp of Errico Malatesta and evolved into one of the core groupings within the wing of the movement supporting Luigi Galleani. Their manifold activities ranged from disseminating propaganda to participating in the labor movement; they fought fascists in the streets, held countless social events such as festas, theatrical performances, picnics and dances, and hosted militant speakers, including Emma Goldman. Focusing on rank-and-file militants-carpenters, stonemasons, fishermen, housewives-rather than well-known figures, Richard Lenzi offers a microhistory of an ethnic radical group during the heyday of labor radicalism in the United States. He also places that history in the context of the larger radical movement, the Italian American community, and greater American society, as it moved from the Gilded Age to the New Deal and beyond.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. From Fano to New London
2. Italian Revolutionaries in a Yankee State
3. Birth of Gruppo L'Avvenire
4. A Night at the Opera House
5. Toward Galleanism
6. Breakdown
7. Rebuilding
photo gallery follows page 104
8. Solidarity Neighborhood
9. Anarchists at War
10. Facing the 1920s
11. They Fought the Law
12. "The 12th of October in New London"
13. Allies and Enemies
14. From New Deal to World War
15."Tested by Attacks of Time and Illness"
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
