— Malcolm HarrisW]e were outnumbered because the anti-[c]ommunist thing became a banner—a tent under which… racist elements could assemble and cover their flanks,” recounts fellow NMU organizer Jack O’Dell of the South during Operation Dixie. “[Union officials] teamed up with the police and the Klan… to run blacks out of the Union hall.
Replicated under Fair Use from Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris.