Racial labor violence explains Black skepticism toward organized labor

Evidence

More than once, in Black Reconstruction, in his editorials in The Crisis, and other works, Du Bois would return to this period in order to identify the roots of racial violence in the labor movement of the twentieth century. It also provided, he believed, an explanation for the tradition of skepticism found among Blacks for organized labor. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 946

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Perceived Black labor competition directly triggered white mob violence — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 447