This guide provides information and links to websites that detail the many racially inspired slaughters of African Americans in the United States of America by those considered white Americans.
In this essay the author investigates the 1917 race riot in East Saint Louis, Missouri, that claimed the lives of at least 40 African Americans and left hundreds homeless. The author argues that women—black and white—were deeply concerned with growing labor competition, especially as they were already confined to lower wage jobs. He recalls that as black women fought for entry, into the market, white women pressed their racial status to ensure their own position in the labor hierarchy. He suggests that racial competition in the work place was a threat.