| Sumario: | Toward the end of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, he began to embrace a new kind of social vision in which the struggles of black people would be addressed by black organized labor. Following King's assassination in 1968, new forms of organization appeared with the emergence of black caucuses within industrial trade unions, but these went into decline following the 1969–70 downturn in auto sales. From the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s, capitalism reasserted itself through a purge of black labor, creating a new black underclass. Today, the struggle against the enemies of the black working class is further compromised by the actions of the black petty-bourgeoisie, who have subsumed the interests of the black community and class differences under the idea of “progress” and self-reliance.
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