'Each segregated unit of black soldiers went to Europe, as a columnist in the NAACP’s magazine, The Crisis, noted, to “fight for a freedom which it does not itself possess.” They came back with a new sense of themselves. It was these veterans who took the radical step of forming a #blackSharecroppers’ union in the Delta.'

‘They Killed Our People’: on the #ElaineMassacre of 1919

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/12/19/they-killed-our-people-elaine-massacre/
https://archive.ph/9b7i2
#BlackHistory #UShistory #whiteSupremacism #racialCapitalism