About 4000 members of the power union voted to strike, in a move to increase their wages that were set by the Duquesne Light Company. The city’s power supply was reduced to 45 per cent when Duquesne Light Company employees failed to report for work. The Union President George Mueller was sentenced to one year in jail because he inspired the strike. The labor leaders of Pittsburgh supported Mueller’s. George Mueller’s arrest caused eight thousand steel and electrical workers in the Pittsburgh district to strike in protest.
INTRODUCTION: Before 1945, the white attitude to blacks was very different to how it is today. A lot needed changing, and it took a large amount of protests and court cases to do so. For example, blacks had no say in elections, and this was enforced with the grandfather clause (where they had to prove that men of two generations before them had been eligible to vote, which they couldn’t) or the literacy clause (where they had to prove they could read and write, which most of them couldn’t). Discrimination in education and employment had led to social deprivation, and many blacks in the North were living in ghettos. PUBLIC OPINION: During the war, black Americans did not approve of the slogan of the war that focused on equality and liberty, as to them it seemed hypocritical, because all they received was discrimination.
It would start with the Tariff of abominations, an then the North and the South would just come to hate each other hastily for their different views on slavery. A beginning problem was a tariff issue in 1832. It was a new tariff that South Carolina did not take kindly to. South Carolina thought that if a law or tariff in this case is passed that directly affects the state, which it did, that the state had the right to nullify such a bill. This was the first of many problems the states saw to realize this was the beginning of a bigger scheme of problems (Document A).
Soul on Ice Book Critique By examining a first-hand account of individuals that were directly affected by the racial turmoil of the 1960’s and 1970’s, the racial evolution is better understood. Eldridge Cleaver is the symbol of black rebellion in the raging decades of the 60’s and 70’s. The United States of America experienced turbulent societal changes throughout these decades. Since the 19th century, when slavery was prevalent, African Americans were treated as inferior to the white people; blacks didn’t have legal equality. Prior to the 1950’s, African Americans had to endure living in a segregated society.
1. Critically discuss how the New Racial Politics and Social Policy in the Nixon yeas (1970’s) and Reagan and Bush years (1980) affected women and people of color. Also, discuss the factors that set the stage for the New Racial Politics. In the years before President Richard Nixon, lower class whites and blacks were treated more of equals when it came to the social policies created in the 1960’s. However, once Nixon was sworn into office, he made it a goal to turn back this trend and divided Americans against one another, stirring up racial prejudices and bringing out the worst in people.
African Americans were still unequal to whites; twenty percent of the nation had been in poverty, and the defeat of Nazism and imperialism brought on a new enemy to freedom: Communism. It was apparent on both sides of the party line that politics needed to change. The democrats were exposed to the new left and the new liberalism and the republicans were faced with the new right. As well as political shifts in ideas the nation had to finally realize that after one hundred years of emancipation, African Americans remained without freedom. While segregation was
Du Bois rejected the gradualist approach urged by Booker T. Washington and began the Niagara Movement for racial justice and equality, resulting in the creation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1910. Despite limited gains, African Americans continued to experience violence, segregation, and discrimination. “I Hear the Whistle”: Immigrants in the Labor Force- The “new” immigration of southern and eastern Europeans continued in the early twentieth century. Not all immigrants
Although there was grave problems facing racial equality after the war, by the 1960's, the black community had achieved so much to gain equality. But was this change due to the federal government or did the change happen through the black community itself? I agree to an extent that the Federal Government was responsible for improving the status of African Americans in the United States in the years 1945 – 1965. The federal government did push for certain laws but some were only changed through the actions of the black communities itself. One of the main reasons for this challenge in racial equality is because of the legacy of slavery.
The South’s population was slow on the ride and the talk of abolitions and the end of slavery was not good news to them. They we’re losing control on the part of their government, and they blamed it all on president Lincoln. The South was doomed basically from the beginning before president Lincoln came into the picture. The south was in ruins, economy destroy by the blockade, and major hyperinflation. The Union had experience and a booming industrial economy, a strong federal government.
The previous mentality of the Accommodationist was rapidly diminishing amongst blacks as they no longer wanted to accept the status quo nor accept that inequality was God’s will. However, as ‘‘racially motivated violence had become part of the way of life in the South’ . World War 2 can not be accounted for as the key turning point in the civil rights movement just because it increased black consciousness and activities in the North. Other factors and key leading figures in the civil rights campaign can be seen as more prominent in the civil rights campaign. These include the achievements: of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People l (NAACP).