Tag: 1960s and 70s
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Lack of Union Jobs “Obliterated an Emergent Black Middle Class”
As a new generation has taken to the streets with demands for social transformation, we need to look back a half century to a time when the quest for equal employment opportunity gave rise to an African American blue-collar middle class. During the 1960s and 1970s, blacks with no more than high-school educations gained significant…