Black Workers in the US Have Been at the Forefront of the Fight for Freedom
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 22, 2023
Review of Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class by Blair L. M. Kelley (Liveright, 2023).
When sixteen-year-old Minnie Savage boarded a train from Lee Mont, Virginia, to Philadelphia in 1918 with nothing more than a sandwich, she told no one of her plans. The promise of jobs and opportunity in the North was too enticing. And the conditions in Accomack County, Virginia, were especially difficult for a young black girl. Only a few years earlier, in 1907, a white mob had attacked the town’s African-American neighborhood after rumors . . .
