"Long Ago,I Wanted to Join the AFL Union,the Amalgamated Butchers

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"Long ago,I wanted to join the AFL union,the Amalgamated Butchers and Meat Cutters,they called it and wouldn't take me.Wouldn't let me in the union.Never said it to my face,but reason of it was plain.Negro.That's it.Just didn't want a Negro man to have what he should.That's wrong.You know that's wrong.Long about 1937 the CIO come.Well,I tell you,we Negroes was glad to see it come.Well,you know,sometimes the bosses,or either the company stooges try to keep the white boys from joining the union.They say,'you don't want to belong to a black man's organization.That's all the CIO is.' Don't fool nobody,but they got to lie,spread lyin' words around." What organization did Jim Cole accuse of racism?

• A) The AFL
• B) The CIO
• C) The WPA
• D) The NRA