2. EDUCATION
“Migration ebbed and flowed for six decades, accelerating rapidly in the 1940s
and 1950s. The expansion of industry during World War II again provided the
stimulus. This time, however, the invention of the mechanical cotton picker toward
the end of the 1940s provided a push from the South that outlasted the expansion
of Chicago's job market. By the 1960s Chicago's packinghouses had closed and its
steel mills were beginning to decline. What had once been envisioned as a
“Promised Land” for anyone willing to work hard now offered opportunities mainly
to educated men and women.”
3. RACISM
“acism is generally defined as actions, practices or beliefs, or social
or political systems that are based in views that see the human species
to be divided into races with shared traits, abilities, or qualities, such
as personality, intellect, morality, or other cultural behavioral
characteristics, and especially the belief that races can be ranked as
inherently superior or inferior to others, or that members of different
races should be treated differently.