Because of these racial injustices, African-Americans remained in the lowest ends of poverty, without legal support, throughout the years of the Great Depression. Peter H. Clark is generally recognised as the first African-American socialist. Some of his family were part of a ``phalanx'', a kind of commune founded by followers of Charles Fourier. _He_also met Thomas and Maria Varney, founders of The Herald of Truth, and Clark was employed to work as stereotypist on this paper and a sister journal, the Cincinnati Herald which was a voice for the local free soil movement. <sep>, Pronoun: He <sep>, A: Thomas <sep>, B: Clark