[1] He studied cotton at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute and left as a non-graduate to fight at the Western Front for the United States Army.
[6][1] He later married fellow communist Bertha Bialek, a Polish-born, Jewish-American labor activist whom he had met while the two were in prison after taking part in a political demonstration.
[5][1] Subsequently, he requested the involvement of George Washington Carver, a professor from his time at Tuskegee, and Amtorg Trading Corporation, with whom he worked to recruit cotton experts to the Soviet Union.
[1] During his time in the Uzbek SSR, Golden helped cultivate a faster-maturing version of American cotton and worked as a teacher at the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration.
[1] The Golden couple hosted Langston Hughes during Christmas Eve 1932 when he was returning from Moscow after an abandoned film project.