Английская Википедия:Alonzo Watson
Шаблон:Infobox military person Alonzo Watson (1891 –1937) was an American volunteer who fought for the Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and was killed in action.
Biographical sketch
Alonzo Watson was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1891. A veteran of World War I and painter, Watson had moved to New York City –joining the Communist Party upon finding common cause with its Harlem activism in the 1930s.[1] He left New York City for Spain on the day after Christmas in 1936 on the SS Normandie –one of the first groups of volunteers to see service in the American outfit known as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.[2] Staffed mostly by Americans who supported the Second Spanish Republic against the coup led by General Francisco Franco, the Lincoln Brigades composed the first completely integrated American fighting force.[3]
Alonzo Watson died in February 1937 at the Battle of Jarama. Fellow veteran John Tisa recalls that Watson died in hand-to-hand combat.[4]
His name occurs briefly as a historical character in Captain Blackman (1972), a novel written by African-American writer John Alfred Williams and Bruce Palmer's They Shall Not Pass: A Novel of the Spanish Civil War (1971).
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External links
- James Yates "Mississippi to Madrid" http://www.alba-valb.org/volunteers/james-yates
- ↑ Carroll, Peter N., and James D. Fernández. Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War. New York: Museum of the City of New York, 2007. Шаблон:ISBN, Шаблон:ISBN. P. 79.
- ↑ Collum, Danny Duncan, and Victor A. Berch. African Americans in the Spanish Civil War: "This ain't Ethiopia, But It'll Do". New York: G.K. Hall, 1992. Шаблон:ISBN, Шаблон:ISBN. P. 24.
- ↑ Lendman, Stephen. The Abraham Lincoln Brigade - A profile in Courage, Honor and Hope. Шаблон:Webarchive Independent Media Center. 27 December 2007. Retrieved 1 May 2009.
- ↑ Tisa, John. Recalling the Good Fight: An Autobiography of the Spanish Civil War. South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin & Garvey, 1985. Шаблон:ISBN, Шаблон:ISBN. P. 51.
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