Dr. Crockett co-authored The Black Voices Black Votes Survey Report Raleigh North Carolina is part of the National Black Workers Center Project (NBWCP) Black Workers Economic Agenda initiative. The report is a discussion and analysis of surveys and focus groups that solicited opinions from Black workers about their quality of life. The information was gathered in 2019 and 2020 in partnership with Drs. Crockett and Webb of Saint Augustine’s University.
The Black Voices Black Votes survey report is a cornerstone of NBWCP’s strategic plan to “engage Black workers in the electoral process, while simultaneously building the capacity of establishing a Raleigh Black Workers Center.”
The U.S. south has a long, violent, and dastardly history of exploiting black labor, i.e., slavery, sharecropping, Jim Crow segregation, forced prison labor, etc. In addition, the south has violently opposed unions and any organization of labor black, white, or brown labor.
The exploitation and suppression of black labor by private commercial interests has been facilitated through southern governments and their government apparatuses. Each branch of the southern state, executive, legislative, and judiciary, plays significant roles in labor exploitation.