The Conversation

Wed Jun 17

Black Americans, crucial workers in crises, emerge worse off – not better

Written by Calvin Schermerhorn, Professor of History, Arizona State University

A group of sharecroppers, evicted from their land in the Great Depression, stand beside a Missouri road in January 1939.GHI/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

On June 19, 1865 – 155 years ago – black Americans celebrating the day of Jubilee, later known as Juneteenth, may have expected a shot at real opportunity. Freedom from slaver...

Black Americans, crucial workers in crises, emerge worse off – not better

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