Improvement of the Position of the Black Population Between 1940 and 1950

A lot of them could barely pay their rent. Her coworkers were typically straightforward about their personal lives. Usually, they would live with a roommate so rent could be split in half. Gail, a coworker from “Hearthside”, shared a room with a male friend for $250 a week in a well-known downtown flophouse (Ehrenreich, 2001). Additionally, she recognized how poor her coworkers truly were. Some of them did not even have enough money for lunch. They often bought the cheapest food to take to work, which was also not always the healthiest. Health insurance was completely out of the picture for some people. Sacrifices had to be made because there was not enough money to have everything. In certain circumstances, jobs would withhold the first check so that people could not quit right away. Benefits from work, such as paid vacation, insurance, and sick days, did not often come until someone worked at the same job for over year. Low-wage jobs are often manipulating because they need workers, yet they sometimes struggle to get them. Higher education is an extreme challenge for minimum wage workers because of it being so expensive. “Most good jobs require a college degree, but the poor cannot afford to send their children to college” (Baca-Zinn, 2009). Although people often say, “money cannot buy happiness”, it is often the factor that determines everything in life. How much someone makes ultimately regulates housing, food, education level, and overall

Economic oppression against blacks occurred out of white’s prejudice for African Americans. Most economic inequality between races advanced from an unequal opportunity in the labor force. This was because African Americans were not given the same chance as whites for similar jobs. In the 1950’s at least 75 percent of African American men “in the labor force were employed in unskilled jobs.” A few of these jobs included janitors, porters, cooks, and machine operators. However, only 25 percent of white males had jobs which did not require many skills. The disparity between women was also significant. 20 percent of black women were paid service workers while only 10 percent of white women maintained the same job. The two most significant l reasons African Americans were economically oppressed was because they were denied access to numerous jobs and the

Examine the condition of African-Americans in the late nineteenth century and explain why the Thirteenth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Fifteenth Amendment, which were enacted to aid the new freedmen, actually did little.

What is segregation? Segregation is setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group. (dictionary.com) In the 1930s African Americans did not have the right to vote. The policy of segregation meant that blacks had their own churches, schools, football teams, and even their own cemeteries. The Great Depression also took place in the 1930s. The economic crisis of the 1930s, the Great Depression, is one of the most studied periods in American history. Racism was at a high point in the 1930s.

The Great depression caused many problems for black people and they were greatly affected by it. Problems of the Great Depression affected every American, however, African Americans were the most affected. By 1932 half of Black Americans were out of work. In some Northern cities, blacks were fired so that a white person could take their job. But yet again, racial violence became more common, especially in the South. Even when President Roosevelt was trying to end the Great Depression there was still a conflict between the blacks and whites in the New Deal Housing and employment projects. This just goes to show that once everything has been set in motion that it can't really become a non-normal thing. Everyone was mostly worrying about themselves and their own people that they didn't bother

There were many forms of discrimination in America. Discrimination was everywhere in the 20th century, and the population most affected by this were African Americans. Two of the most critical injustices committed in America during the 20th century were the development of the Jim Crow laws and school segregation. However, these injustices have been rectified as a result of the Civil Rights Movement and the decision of the supreme court of Brown v. Board of Education which brought important changes to African Americans.

What is segregation? Segregation is set apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group. (dictionary.com) In the 1930s African Americans did not have the right to vote. The policy of segregation meant that blacks had their own churches, schools, football teams, and even their own cemeteries. The Great Depression also took place in the 1930s. The economic crisis of the 1930s, the Great Depression, is one of the most studied periods in American history. Racism was at a high point in the 1930s.

African Americans didn’t know that is was a Great Depression. African Americans have always been poor and knew how to survive. By 1932, approximately half of black Americans were unemployed, blacks always felt unemployed and under paid. Whites attempted to keep blacks out of work by not hiring African Americans. They used racial violence, and discrimination tactics to keep an underprivileged population depressed.

The 1930’s started off with a huge economic crash which left the U.S. startled and in the Great Depression. The stock market had just crashed on October 24, 1929, also known as the Wall Street Crash. The “Jazz Age” had just ended and new musicians and artists were slowly rising up to their fame. African American’s were being discriminated against in the south. Many African Americans were farmers who had to suffer from the Great Depression as well as the Dust Bowl. As a result of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl many African Americans had to go through the struggles of losing their jobs and having to move north in search for a new life. Many Americans had this problem as well, but the racism that was used against Africans, added to the severeness of the situation. African Americans weren’t able to get jobs, homes, or opportunities as easily as African Americans. Many African Americans were in terrible condition and most of it was because of the way that African Americans were treated. After President Roosevelt was elected a new hope had arisen through the country and Africans Americans were given another chance.

When looking at the social changes in American culture at the turn of the century, we see extraordinary differences in the accepted behaviours and thoughts of American citizens. The century saw a major shift in the way that people lived, with changes in politics, society, culture, economics, and technology. At the beginning of the century, discrimination based on race and sex was significant, but by the end of the 20th century, women had the same legal rights as men and racism had come to be seen as detestable.

I think you provide an excellent exploration of Washington’s ideas regarding education. I remember in The Future of the American Negro that he noted after the civil war the privileged Southern white man’s fall to “despair, almost utter hopelessness, over his weak and childlike condition” (43) the condition being not knowing the “benefit of technical and industrial training” (43). Washington is arguing that during the collapse of the south there were farm owners who didn’t know how to farm or labor (as a result of slave dependence) and thus, their (whites) attempts of rebuild spiraled further into “degradation instead of beauty” (43). I can’t help but think that perhaps Washington was hoping through agricultural and industrial education that

Albeit Lincoln and Johnson made considerable concessions to the South during their terms, extremist Southern states like South Carolina kept gainsaying the outcome of the war by endeavoring to reinstitute Blacks into slave-like conditions through inequitable laws. Intransigent “Jim Crow” laws, Ebony Codes, and poll taxes sought to replicate the conditions of slavery for Blacks in the post-Civil War South by promoting discrimination and segregation. However, after the Radical Republicans took control of the Reconstruction, more rigorous “punishments” were inflicted on the Southern states to make them accept incipient laws bulwarking blacks. In many Southern states, military regimes were established until the states accepted the terms of re-ingression

The comparison of the Civil Rights movement and the struggles of blacks in the 80s and 90s is similar but different mechanisms were involved. Indirect racism plagued many blacks whether it be racial profiling in a store or for driving a nice car.. Drugs and violence plagued the big cities where blacks heavily populated. Many theories suggest the government may have influenced these happenings.. The AIDS epidemic impacted many people in America and politicians began voicing their opinions and social political structures became more complicated.

It is also harder to raise children with a low income and provide for the

As many people thought to have a job was a source of security guaranteed the weekly pay check and wouldn’t try to make it on their own.