The shared view of these African American communists asserted that black workers were exploited and oppressed more than any other group. Besides, they claimed, the history of Southern blacks could be characterized as essentially a reign of terror, of slavery, segregation, disenfranchisement, lynching, persecution, rape and murder. Black middle-class reform organizations such as the NAACP and the Urban League were too diffident and controlled by white elites
-Walter T. Howard
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