found: African American National Biography, accessed March 04, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Peery, Nelson; community activist, communist, soldier; born 22 June 1923 in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States; high school diploma (1942); literary co-editor of literary magazine, Quest, which swept at least six National Scholastic prizes; found way into Young Communist League (YCL) activities; assigned to the segregated Ninety-Third Infantry Division in Fort Huachuca, Arizona; promoted to staff sergeant, assigned to the Pacific Theater, followed by the Philippines (1943-1945); secured army supplies and training manuals Hukbalahap guerillas, led by Philippine communists who had fought the Japanese independently of U.S.-aligned Filipino forces; joined the Provisional Organizing Committee (POC) to reconstitute a Marxist-Leninist Party in the U.S. (1958-1968); led the formation of the California Communist League merging with a splinter of Students for a Democratic Society to form the Communist League, which later adopted the name Communist Labor Party (CLP) (1970))
