Lucy Parsons was a Black labor activist who supported anarcho-communism and Black rights. She wrote many pamphlets and articles, including “The Negro: Let Him Leave Politics to the Politician and Prayers to the Preacher,” published April 3, 1886, in The Alarm, an anarchist newspaper edited by her husband, Albert Parsons. The article was written in response to the lynching of thirteen African Americans in Carrollton, Mississippi. Parsons blames capitalism, rather than race, for the African Americans’ oppression and their lynching and states that they were targets because they were poor.