Work Or Fight Order: A Racist Thing?

In my posts in my Down Da Road I Go blog yesterday, I mentioned a DeKalb County company which had this order on it.

From the Records of Rights site  "Work Or Fight (1918)"

During World War I the Selective Service Division issued a "Work or Fight" order requiring all able-bodied men to either serve in the military or  work in "necessary" civilian occupations.  Some private individuals and employers in the South conspired with public authorities to use the order to force Blacks to perform menial labor for low wages.

--CootWork