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Date Submitted: 09/08/2014 07:28 AM
Shakeem Mack
Mrs. Nguyen
English 101
June 24, 2014
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Since slavery blacks have been treated as though that whites are better. One of which happens to be is jobs. While whites had high paying skill jobs or careers, blacks didn’t, the blacks had jobs like being a waiter, waitress, a maid, etc.
During the 1920’s many African Americans moved up north to get away from a number of things from the south one being treated differently. But when they moved up north nothing changed they still were discriminated against, they couldn't get great jobs, and they were also discriminated against when it came to housing.
The African American Experience." American Decades. Ed. Judith S. Baughman, et al. Vol. 3: 1920-1929. Detroit: Gale, 2001. U.S. History in Context. Web. 25 June 2014.
James R. Grossman helped write this article, he is the Executive Director of he American Historical Association and Associate Faculty in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. He has written several books on black history, one being the encyclopedia of Chicago, which was published in 2004 so its not all that new.
The Great Depression brought mass suffering to all regions of the country. National income dropped by 50 percent and unemployment rose to an estimated 25 percent of the total labor force. At the same time, twenty million Americans turned to public and private relief agencies for assistance. As the "Last Hired and the First Fired," African Americans entered the Depression long before the stock market crash in 1929, and they stayed there longer than other Americans. By 1933, African Americans found it all but impossible to find jobs of any kind in agriculture or industry.
TROTTER, JOE W. "African Americans, Impact of the Great Depression on." Encyclopedia of the Great Depression. Ed. Robert S. McElvaine. Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004. 8-17. U.S. History in Context. Web. 25 June 2014.
While everyone suffered from the great...