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, black women tend to work as domestic servants. This is an era in which there is a tremendous demand for middle-class white women as office workers.

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1920s, African American workers, unions and black workers, scabs, black women, domestic service, middle-class white women, clerical workers, daughters of immigrants, factory work, agricultural work, 1920s: The New Era

African-American History, America in the 20th Century, American Economic History, American History, American Studies, Ethnicity and Race Relations, Unfinished Nation, The

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