Black Shirts: Klan-like Group Formed During Great Depression to Keep Blacks Unemployed
In 1929, the lives of people across the United States drastically changed.
During this time, jobs that usually only blacks held, including porters, maids, garbage men, and maids were sought out from unemployed whites.
A Klan-like group formed called the “Black Shirts” paraded around, carrying signs that read, “No Jobs for Niggers Until Every White Man Has a Job.”
In many other cities, whites gathered together to shout to blacks “Niggers back to the cotton fields.
The only group in the early years of the Great Depression that concerned itself with the rights of rural blacks was the Communist Party.
