Great Depression labor scarcity made white workers demand Black exclusion from jobs

Evidence

The Great Depression hit the South and Black America particularly hard. “No jobs for niggers until every white man has a job,” became the Deep South’s slogan. In the North, Black migrants and natives were often found standing on “slave markets,” as these street corners were called in northern cities. White employers would come by and choose the cheapest day laborers. Sexual and fiscal exploitation were rampant. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 858

Categorization

• XREF: Direct evidence for Kendi’s causal inversion: white self-interest (job protection) drove policy/slogans before any ideological justification — the reader’s core thesis in action. — connects to: White workers cemented segregation to protect their labor advantages — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1459
• ADDENDUM: The class/identity dimension of economic deprivation driving exclusion parallels the cross-cultural moral-panic framing in ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back.’