in mid-october government sources provided the "times" with evidence of bolshevist propaganda appealing to america's black communities. this account set red propaganda in the black community into a broader context, since it was "paralleling the agitation that is being carried on in industrial centres of the north and west, where there are many alien laborers". the times described newspapers, magazines, and "so-called 'negro betterment' organizations" as the way propaganda about the "doctrines of lenin and trotzky" was distributed to black people. it cited quotes from such publications, which contrasted the recent violence in chicago and washington, d.c. with:"