Workers Are Joining Labor Unions Like It’s 1919

The South’s trend toward unionization is the latest chapter in a story of racism and antisemitism that began more than a century ago

Elaine Massacre of 1919 defendants Ed Hicks, Frank Hicks, Frank Moore, J. C. Knox, Ed Coleman, Paul Hall, and Scipio A. Jones, the group’s legal counsel (far left). Source: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System | Zinn Education Project