… however successful Negro business enterprise may be, and whether it proceeds on a quasi self-sufficient basis or takes its chances for survival in the general competitive arena, it must in the nature of things remain a diminutive force in modern industrialism, which is to say, that its much heralded power for mitigating the stress of Negro unemployment will be inconsequential. The great masses of Negro workers will continue to find their employment with those who now control finance and industry.
—Abram L. Harris, Jr. “The Negro Worker: A Problem of Progressive Labor Action” The Crisis Vol. 37: No. 3, March 1930, p. 85.
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