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62. What Martin Luther King, Jr. knew:

Thu Jan 17, 2013, 02:15 AM

Jan 2013

Negroes are almost entirely a working people. There are pitifully few Negro millionaires, and few Negro employers. Our needs are identical with labor's needs — decent wages, fair working conditions, livable housing, old age security, health and welfare measures, conditions in which families can grow, have education for their children and respect in the community. That is why Negroes support labor's demands and fight laws which curb labor.

That is why the labor-hater and labor-baiter is virtually always a twin-headed creature spewing anti-Negro epithets from one mouth and anti-labor propaganda from the other mouth.

AFL-CIO Convention, December 1961

What Martin Luther King had to say about Right to Work 1961!

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The South's Shocking Hidden History: Thousands of Blacks Forced Into Slavery Until WW2 [View all] xchrom Jan 2013 OP

Slavery never ended loyalsister Jan 2013 #1

No, travel down to the Delta and observe the living conditions and "indentured" blacks Tutonic Jan 2013 #63

I fully agree loyalsister Jan 2013 #66

My father's family were sharecroppers near Meridian, Mississippi revolution breeze Jan 2013 #72

Awful dipsydoodle Jan 2013 #2

kr HiPointDem Jan 2013 #3

Chain gangs are not hidden. Just ignored. Scootaloo Jan 2013 #4

Some days I'm ashamed to be an American ... Scuba Jan 2013 #5

Our American Holocaust MrScorpio Jan 2013 #6

The mass graves are out there, they just need to be found. Scuba Jan 2013 #8

Are you referring to burial grounds? Nye Bevan Jan 2013 #18

Why would it matter? Scuba Jan 2013 #20

Thank you. n/t 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2013 #32

It doesn't matter. They were robbed of their place in the sun, that they should have had. freshwest Jan 2013 #39

Worked to death or executed....what's the difference?... OldDem2012 Jan 2013 #23

+1 you speak truth. n/t BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2013 #47

the noose took the place of gas chambers SemperEadem Jan 2013 #12

Our 2nd holocaust. grahamhgreen Jan 2013 #54

"we want our country back..." SemperEadem Jan 2013 #11

Yeah, they want to live off what they stole from others - their freedom, their labor, their lives. freshwest Jan 2013 #40

So so true Euphoria Jan 2013 #57

Still happening... disproportionate sentencing for black folks and prison labor... Luminous Animal Jan 2013 #53

This is why I have no desire to live in the South. UnrepentantLiberal Jan 2013 #7

I live in TN and you are spot on. reflection Jan 2013 #15

"Oh, but the South is so put-upon and misunderstood!" in 3...2...1... Aristus Jan 2013 #24

It hurts to hear people bash the South reflection Jan 2013 #29

I agree. I grew up with a number of things about the South that I loved. Aristus Jan 2013 #30

The south is different as any internal colony is different. Other internal colonies include: HiPointDem Jan 2013 #61

Me, too, reflection. I had to move back to care for aging parents. Politicub Jan 2013 #51

Thank you. Kick. Rec. n/t Judi Lynn Jan 2013 #9

that is the country that the tea farts want to be taken back to SemperEadem Jan 2013 #10

+1000 Blue_Tires Jan 2013 #34

Right to Work. tclambert Jan 2013 #13

What Martin Luther King, Jr. knew: freshwest Jan 2013 #62

K&R idwiyo Jan 2013 #14

Thank you so much for posting. nc4bo Jan 2013 #16

But, but, states rights! ellie Jan 2013 #17

That is EXACTLY what people mean by "states rights" Hugabear Jan 2013 #28

Unless one is talking about Marijuana or DOMA hughee99 Jan 2013 #38

SMH Mr Dixon Jan 2013 #19

Slavery Just went corporate with Share-Cropping JCMach1 Jan 2013 #21

K&R Solly Mack Jan 2013 #22

If only the 14 year old black kid had been smoking a joint...many here would *applaud* his Romulox Jan 2013 #25

if the kid was 17 and black and had Skittles, some here would defend his killing CreekDog Jan 2013 #27

you are right about that. racism runs deep noiretextatique Jan 2013 #45

I must have missed those posts.... BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2013 #48

I agree, Romulox, combine the "War on Drugs" and for profit prisons and we Uncle Joe Jan 2013 #43

I lived in the South in the 50's and 60's and nothing would surprise surprise me about what happened demosincebirth Jan 2013 #26

My family oral history has it ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2013 #31

god.... BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2013 #49

This is sickening...knr joeybee12 Jan 2013 #33

k&r shanti Jan 2013 #35

Rogue government? It can't happen here. Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2013 #36

K&R gollygee Jan 2013 #37

omg uponit7771 Jan 2013 #41

Some years back a DUer recommended Douglas Blackmon's Slavery by Another Name malaise Jan 2013 #42

Thanks for posting that. LisaLynne Jan 2013 #50

Yes, I remember hearing an interview with him when his book came out. Hissyspit Jan 2013 #58

It is an excellent book malaise Jan 2013 #68

k&r. Thanks for posting this story. I had no idea... Liberal_in_LA Jan 2013 #44

They left out The Nadir when we were taught American history. NT. Warren Stupidity Jan 2013 #46

rec'd limpyhobbler Jan 2013 #52

I saw a documentary that dealt with this on PBS. Third Doctor Jan 2013 #55

See post #42. Hissyspit Jan 2013 #59

I have read many heartbreaking stories on DU . . . Brigid Jan 2013 #56

I always thought this was Jim Crow caseymoz Jan 2013 #60

I recently posted some photos.. SouthernDonkey Jan 2013 #64

K&R Land Shark Jan 2013 #65

Grew up in a very liberal state... im1013 Jan 2013 #67

I remember seeing a TV show decades ago, I think in the 1960s. drm604 Jan 2013 #69

Yes -- and for a good article about this subject TuxedoKat Jan 2013 #71

k/r marmar Jan 2013 #70