Week 10 Post 3

 Week 10 Post 3- Reflection

Final Reflection! I will probably post some more notes on my blog, but this is the last official week of posts. I had a big chapter to tackle this week called suppressed incomes, but I made it through and got a lot of great notes. This chapter covered a lot of different things, but its main big categories were sharecropping, great migration, unions, hiring discrimination, tax discrimination, and the FEPC, and how these all related to continuing oppression. Some of my favorite parts of this book were all the photos that were included. There weren't too many that they dominated, but each chapter usually sprinkled in a couple and they added so much. This chapter brought some really interesting facts about the presidency and its connection to continuing racism in the U.S. This book has shown several examples of the disinterest in several different executive officials in solving the residential racism problems the country was facing, but specifically how presidents such as Roosevelt specifically employed people who would do everything possible to keep segregation alive. 

    I'm going to be working on writing my presentation, and I think I'm going to divide my research into several big sections. Those sections are probably going to be public housing, private housing, segregation and jobs, segregation and banks, racial violence, highways, and present-day consequences. I look forward to my presentation and sharing with everyone all that I've learned!

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

    What was your one biggest takeaway from this topic?

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