To Ask for an Equal Chance
The Great Depression hit Americans hard, but none harder than African Americans and the working poor. "Last hired, first fired," black workers lost their jobs at twice the rate of whites, and faced greater obstacles in their search for economic security. To Ask for an E… Celý popis ↓
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To Ask for an Equal Chance
The Great Depression hit Americans hard, but none harder than African Americans and the working poor. "Last hired, first fired," black workers lost their jobs at twice the rate of whites, and faced greater obstacles in their search for economic security. To Ask for an Equal Chance explores black experiences during this period and the intertwined challenges posed by race and class.
These difficulties were intensified by an overt, and in the South legally entrenched, system of racial segregation and discrimination. Black workers, who were generally urban newcomers, impoverished and lacking industrial skills, were already at a disadvantage. New federal programs offered hope as they redefined government's responsibility for its citizens, but local implementation often proved racially discriminatory.
As Cheryl Lynn Greenberg makes clear, African Americans were not passive victims of economic
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