Du Bois, James, and Wright recovered an older Black militant tradition

Evidence

W. E. B. Du Bois, in the midst of the antilynching movement, C. L. R. James, in the vortex of anticolonialism, and Richard Wright, the sharecropper’s son, all brought forth aspects of the militant tradition which had informed successive generations of Black freedom fighters. These predecessors were Africans by origins, predominantly recruited from the same cultural matrices, subjected to similar and interrelated systems of servitude and oppression, and mobilized by identical impulses to recover their dignity. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 87

Categorization

• XREF: Grounds the three central modern figures of the tradition in the reader’s stated interest in its origin and arc.