To the Editors: Praising the Hulu version of the 1619 Project, Adam Hochschild [NYR, May 25] writes: We hear about the powerful southern congressional committee chairmen who forced New Deal programs like Social Security to exclude categories of labor in which Blacks were concentrated, like domestic and agricultural work. This claim became popular in the […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/06/08/dont-blame-the-southerners/