Massacres Denied Part III: Dying for a Fair Wage

Violence against workers seeking better pay, working conditions, or the right to unionize is well-documented throughout American history. What isn’t documented as well, are the many instances when Black/African Americans were  massacred simply for  attempting to unionize for fair working conditions and wages. This year’s rapt attention on the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921 has awakened America to its sordid past, but there are hundreds of largely unknown instances of Black/African Americans being massacred, murdered, terrorized, and stripped of their property through racially motivated labor violence. Listen as Dr. Carol Francois and Kourtney Square tell those stories. Want more, take our course Systemic Racism: See it, Say it, Confront it www.whyaretheysoangry.com and find us anywhere at www.podpage.com.whyaretheysoangry

Citations

“A Very Abbreviated History of the Destruction of Black Neighborhoods,” Gabrielle Bruney, Esquire, May 30, 2020, https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32719786/george-floyd-protests-riots-black-comminity-destruction-history/?fbclid=IwAR07n6A4UKPIlh-K2MTkNr1pB6blIe3aMNBwt0uew_MDrVRV2bLVHyMt-ss

“Burned from the land: How 60 years of racial violence shaped America,” Channon Hodge, Breeanna Hare, Tami Luhby, Elias Goodstein, Priya Krishnakumar, Nadia Lancy, Toby Lyles, Amy Roberts and Clint Alwahab, CNN, May 30, 2021.

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