Trotskyists recruited Black Marxists into American rural organizing by 1938.

Evidence

James was now at the center of the Trotskyist international movement, and soon he was to be just as immersed in the American theater, stirring things up in New York, disputing with Trotsky over the Negro Question, organizing sharecroppers and tenant farmers in southeast Missouri. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1299

Categorization

• XREF: James’s Missouri organizing echoes the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union and broader Depression-era radical agrarian movements.