History of Communist Infiltration in the Black Community Given that February is Black History Month and that the communist infiltration of America is an interest of mine, I will be focusing this next month on the history of the communist infiltration of the African-American community. In the 1920’s, the Kremlin targeted African-Americans by promoting the formation of a “Negro Soviet Republic” to be carved out of what they called the “black belt,” and area with a large African-American population that crossed several southern states. When this line of reasoning was met with scorn and hostility by the overwhelmingly conservative, Christian, ...