Early in the twentieth century, the railroad business was highly unionized. Just as in South Africa, employers often wanted to hire black people. But unions run by white people excluded blacks from membership and often committed acts of violence against black workers who tried to get such jobs.

— David R. Henderson The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey (2002)

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