Divergent Paths: Plantation Society of the South
The plantation is a uniquely American form of community for many white and black Southerners. The region is largely rural, dependent on such lucrative but labor-intensive crops as rice, sugar, cotton, and later tobacco. The fact that the hard physic...
Road to War, The: Organizing the Economy for War
The American Government and Politicsencourages the industrial economy to support the "Great War". With the supply demands high and more men being drafted into war, African Americans soon migrate to the northern states for work. The war effort also f...
Strained Relations: Growth of Colonial Resistance
The Boston Massacre, a clash between working-class people in Boston and British troops, ignites colonial resentment to a new level of intensity. Although the next few years appear relatively calm, resistance is building below the surface. A number o...
From Days Before Time: Spanish Engage in Slavery to Fill Labor Needs
Although the conquistadors continue to search for riches in other Aztec-like empires, they soon find a more tangible incentive in the conscription of a slave labor force for their Caribbean colonies. The Spanish and the Portuguese are among the firs...
Divergent Paths: Contrast between Northern and Southern Colonies
The Southern and Northern colonies continue along divergent paths in the 17th and 18th centuries. Their physical environments are different, their populations diverse. But perhaps the factor that contributes most to their distinctiveness is the intr...
America in a World At War: African Americans and the War
Military service is an important integrative device, however, mixing is not going on across certain racial lines. During the war, white soldiers are not allowed to receive black blood, training bases in south are entirely segregated, and northern bl...
Way We Were?, The: Other America-Inner Cities and Beyond, The
Inner city neighborhoods are becoming vast repositories for the poor. The city of Chicago with its growing black ghettos is a case in point. For some blacks who are attaining educational opportunities and building powerful black communities in South...
Chaos of Experimentation, A: Growth of Federal Relief
The Roosevelt administration does not consider relief a priority at first but comes to realize something must be done to help impoverished people survive. They create a range of relief mechanisms from providing money to relief agencies to creating j...
Vision for a Nation: Apportionment of Slave Populations
The separate economic interests of Northern and Southern states becomes the basis for the second major debate. The South seeks some credit for its slaves and make it known that there will be no union without recognition of a way of life they conside...
1920s...Beyond the Glitter, The: Women and Minorities in the Workplace
Half a million African-American workers who migrated from the rural South struggle to retain their positions in the decade of the 1920s. Unions do not attempt to enroll black workers. Although there are black teachers, nurses, and entrepreneurs, bla...