Week 10 Post 2

 Week 10 Post 2- Formal Synthesis

    This week's research focused on the suppressed incomes of African Americans. In summary, this research analyzed the effects of African Americans being excluded from unions and certain job networks, as well as strategies used to tax them higher. The chapter began with an explanation of sharecropping and indentured servitude, practices used commonly during reconstruction because they were slavery in another form, forcing African Americans to pay high prices for lodging that meant that they made no money from the work they did on plantations. The first section of this chapter also touched on generational wealth and lack thereof, explaining that regardless of race, it is very unlikely to be in a higher tax bracket than your parents. The chapter then explained the two great migrations, which brought in total almost 5 million African Americans from Southern states to the north for job opportunities and better treatment. Around the same time, the New Deal was signed by President Roosevelt, which included protections for workers and additional assistance in job finding groups following the job shortage of the great depression. As most federal beneficiaries, African Americans were not included in new worker benefits like minimum wages and maximum hours. Furthermore, many jobs refused to place African Americans in any position where they would oversee whites or make more money than them, forcing them into constant low positions regardless of skill level and experience. African Americans were excluded from a majority of the largest unions in the country, or if they were allowed, they had to form seperate chapters and didn't get union member privileges such as voting in union elections and getting benefits by recommendation from their union. 

        President Roosevelt was threatened by a march on Washington by civil rights activists demanding that unions become inclusive, and signed an executive order creating the Fair Employment Practices Committee, whose job was to ensure that unions nationwide were not excluding African Americans. However, this agency was extremely unsuccessful, with many unions ignoring the requests to allow black workers in and the agency not following up with any actual punishment. The Roosevelt administration was already not very concerned with racial equality, and during World War II the president's focus was so dedicated to the war effort that he was not bothered by the failure of this agency. In fact, the man he put in charge of the FEPC was in favor of segregation and resigned due to outrage at his positions. Overall, the federal government made it clear they had no interest in making the job market an equal place for whites and blacks. Their so-called attempts at integrating unions were ignored or only temporary, and African Americans continued to be forced into the lowest paying jobs, further creating racial divides in the United States.

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  1. Ms. DunleyMay 23, 2023 at 9:52 AM

    Can you update this so that you are not referencing the week?

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