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| very low wages, cotton picking(tech advancemet, was becoming more mechanized, less need for blacks), sharecropping, opressive race of the South, lack of opportunity: these factors made them want to LEAVE the Souh |
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| Higher wages, better jobs family and friends stories of experience of better life, race relations was better: these factors encouraged them to leave and go to the North |
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| area where blacks were basically confined to living. It was worst off then whites neighborhood. The crime rate and death rate were higher. "white flight" whites moved out of neighborhoods when blacks moved into them..seperatd blacks and whites from living together. |
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| benefits of Black Belt for Blacks |
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| -community,frequent black busiess-voting blocks |
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| Drawbacks of Black Belt for Blacks |
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| -restricted with limited resources..jobs., etc..bad health and living conditions, legal segregatin.* Blacks just wanted the "OPPORTUNITY" to leave the Black Belt! |
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| benefits of Black Belts for Whites |
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| -kept the Blacks seperate from them kept their property values from lowering-limited social interactions among the two races-prevented social equality |
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| An understanding in which Blacks and whites had amongst eachother-social interaction:knew where they could and could not be... |
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| service to them.Blacks often recieved no or very bad service to make them never want to go back to certain places |
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| Blacks were unable to advance regaurdless of skill,knowledge, education, experience, desire, etc. they recieved low wages, had a low status and were stuck in undesirable positions |
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| Blacks were also the first to lose their jobs during the great depression. in times of economic trouble they were the least employed. |
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| legal agreements between homeowners in a neighborhood. white owners could not sell their homes to blacks. only real estate companies could so whites lost out on money because of this. blacks were also charged a lot more for their purchases/rents// restrictive covenants were upheld by the court system. |
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| 5 axes of ife in Brozeville |
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| Praising God, Getting Ahead, Having a good time, Advancing the Race, Staying Alive |
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| -going to church/social networking in this way..helped their status... |
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| -how they spent their money and presented themselves...they hated America but it was the only land theyd ever known so at the same time loved it. there was a shame and definance among some of their people. a sene of race pride. |
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| they had a dominating indvidual drive, they wante to progress upward mobility |
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| itwas a way to get away from their depressive lives/jobs...theytook part in recreational activities to enjoy life bc they "worked to live".. |
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| statistics of death and crime rate were high in their neighborhoods /race riots/ economic conflicts. and many were unaware of this... |
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| DOMINATING NOTE OF MIDDLE CLASS: |
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| Was a place that Southern RacialCustom did not dictate life for black peole |
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| blacks did not have to worry about what white people were going to think of them |
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| 1930s: BLACK OCCUPATIONS PRIMARILY.. |
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| -SHARECROPPING.PRIVATE HOUSEHOLD SERVICE.UNSKILLED FACTORY WORKERS; INTERRACIAL COMPETITION |
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| 9/10 WOMENs jobs//by machines |
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| 60% private/constitutional household service jobs(black women) while 40% WHITE women had clerical jobs |
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| employment opportunites decreased bc of policies racial preferences |
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| white women lost jobs also, jobs went to old soldiers who returned |
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| BLACK MEN..1/2 as much as WHITE MEN )wages) |
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| BLACK WOMEN less than 1/2 of those of WHITE WOMEN.; NO MOTIVATION BC OF NO GOVT INTERVENTION |
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| blacks had no benefits. minimum wage, max# hrs wrk, unemployment comp, soc.security, etc. |
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| 68% blacks still lived in the SOUTH....4%WEST 28% north |
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| one of the largest most rapid internal movements/ outranks any migration of any other ethice group to a country/ made race a national issue in the second half of the twentieth century |
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| laws confined Afr. Americans to them (restrictive covenants)...(enforcable..black families) |
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| movement to white neighborhoods...[expand blackbelt] |
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| *VERY LITLLE SOCIAL MIXING*SEGREGATED BY CUSTOM*SOCIAL INTERGRATION AND EQUAL INTEREST |
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| WORLD OF LOWER CLASS IN BLACK METROPOLIS |
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| physical world.....churches dance halls overcrowded kitchenetts/ structure organized life for poor |
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| LOWER CLASS...BLACK METROPOLIS. |
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| 1. SOCIAL DISORGANIZED FAMILS.2. CHURCH FOLKSOTHRS TRYING TO "ADVANCE" THEMSELVES 3.THE UNDERWORLD (PIMPS...PROSTITUTES.THIEVES, PROFESS GAMBLERS...) THE LINE SEPERATING THESE GROUPS IS FLUID. |
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| 1/spatial vulnerability because of low income pop. is so large that poor residents filter into "better"neighborhoods... 2/middle class distinguished from lower class not by income but by : a. geater family stability b. drive for getting ahead c. can be poor but midle class.... |
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