Segregation and Black Labor Before the CIO:
Against The Current vol. 138
Ortiz, Paul
http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/2035
Date Written: 2009-01-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2009
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13473
C.L.R. James urged listeners at a 1971 Institute of the Black World event in Atlanta to study W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction as a way to understand the meaning of Marxism, the Civil War, and emancipation. James implored his audience to grapple with Du Bois’s statement that Reconstruction was “the finest effort to achieve democracy for the working millions which this world had ever seen. It was a tragedy that beggared the Greek; it was an upheaval of humanity like the Reformation and the French Revolution.”
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