Early Equal Rights

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After the end of the world wars, there was a steady decline in the number of middle class and factory jobs. This included many of the jobs that blacks now occupied. This is when some started going to school and starting their own businesses. Because of this many political activist groups started to be established. One of these was the NAACP. Founded in by W E B DuBois., the NAACP started fighting for equal right for black in the work place and in the countries. Another activist during this period was Booker T Washington. A highly educated man, Booker fought to raise money for schools in black communities and also spoke out for black African American rights. This helped increase the education that inner city African American children were getting. Because of a decrease of jobs in the job market that doesn’t require higher education, this helped ensure tha the students coming out of school would have a better chance at finding work. A. Philip Randolph established one of the first unions primarily for blacks. This union was called the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and was for employees of the Pullman Company. The Pullman Company manufactured Sleeping cars for trains. Even with these organizations and individuals fighting to protect the jobs black occupied at the time, the job market still went down. Jobs were lost and as what happens in society, new immigrants coming in got some of the lower end jobs that normally were occupied by blacks at this time. The new immigrants could be paid less and worked harder than the African Americans that previously held those jobs. Soon the amount of unemployed blacks grew. Even with this increase in unemployment, blacks still maintained the majority of the working class in the inner cities.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Philip_Randolph

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T_Washington

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_e_b_dubois

The African American Experience in Cyberspace By Abdul Alkalimat

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