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06 Mar 12
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For black Americans in 1960 the statistics were grim. Their average life span in 1960 was seven years less than white Americans'. Their children had only half the chance of completing high school, only a third the chance of completing college, and a third the chance of entering a profession when they grew up. On average, black Americans earned half as much as white Americans and were twice as likely to be unemployed.
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n the North, too, black Americans suffered humiliation, insult, embarrassment, and discrimination
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he Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave voice to the new mood: "We're through with tokenism and gradualism and see-how-far-you've-comeism. We're through with we've-done-more-for-your-people-than-anyone-elseism. We can't wait any longer. Now is the time."
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05 Mar 12
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statistics were grim
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In the North, too, black Americans suffered humiliation, insult, embarrassment, and discrimination. Many neighborhoods, businesses, and unions almost totally excluded blacks. Just as black unemployment had increased in the South with the mechanization of cotton production, so too in northern cities black unemployment soared as labor-saving technology eliminated many semiskilled and unskilled jobs that historically provided many blacks with work.
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During the 1960s, however, a growing hunger for full equality arose among black Americans.
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01 Mar 11
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ck unemployment soared as labor-saving technology eliminated many semiskilled and unskilled jobs that historically provided many blacks with work.
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06 Mar 10
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Black families experienced severe strain; the proportion of black families headed by women jumped from 8 percent in 1950 to 21 percent in 1960.
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a growing hunger for full equality arose among black Americans
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03 Mar 10
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Less than a quarter of the South's voting age black population could vote, and in certain southern counties blacks could not vote, serve on grand juries and trial juries, or frequent all-white beaches, restaurants, and hotels
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northern cities black unemployment soared as labor-saving technology eliminated many semiskilled and unskilled jobs that historically provided many blacks with work
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For black Americans in 1960 the statistics were grim. Their average life span in 1960 was seven years less than white Americans'. Their children had only half the chance of completing high school, only a third the chance of completing college, and a third the chance of entering a profession when they grew up. On average, black Americans earned half as much as white Americans and were twice as likely to be unemployed.
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In the North, too, black Americans suffered humiliation, insult, embarrassment, and discrimination
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If you're white, you're right," a black folk saying went; "if you're brown stick around; if you're black, stay back."
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During the 1960s, however, a growing hunger for full equality arose among black Americans. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave voice to the new mood: "We're through with tokenism and gradualism and see-how-far-you've-comeism. We're through with we've-done-more-for-your-people-than-anyone-elseism. We can't wait any longer. Now is the time."
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seven years less than white Americans'
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black Americans earned half as much as white Americans and were twice as likely to be unemployed.
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Less than a quarter of the South's voting age black population could vote, and in certain southern counties blacks could not vote, serve on grand juries and trial juries, or frequent all-white beaches, restaurants, and hotels.
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neighborhoods, businesses, and unions almost totally excluded blacks
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black unemployment soared as labor-saving technology eliminated many semiskilled and unskilled jobs that historically provided many blacks with work
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a growing hunger for full equality arose
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For black Americans in 1960 the statistics were grim. Their average life span in 1960 was seven years less than white Americans'. Their children had only half the chance of completing high school, only a third the chance of completing college, and a third the chance of entering a profession when they grew up. On average, black Americans earned half as much as white Americans and were twice as likely to be unemployed.
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Less than a quarter of the South's voting age black population could vote, and in certain southern counties blacks could not vote, serve on grand juries and trial juries, or frequent all-white beaches, restaurants, and hotels.
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In the North, too, black Americans suffered humiliation, insult, embarrassment, and discrimination. Many neighborhoods, businesses, and unions almost totally excluded blacks. Just as black unemployment had increased in the South with the mechanization of cotton production, so too in northern cities black unemployment soared as labor-saving technology eliminated many semiskilled and unskilled jobs that historically provided many blacks with work. Black families experienced severe strain; the proportion of black families headed by women jumped from 8 percent in 1950 to 21 percent in 1960.
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During the 1960s, however, a growing hunger for full equality arose among black Americans. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave voice to the new mood: "We're through with tokenism and gradualism and see-how-far-you've-comeism. We're through with we've-done-more-for-your-people-than-anyone-elseism. We can't wait any longer. Now is the time."
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For black Americans in 1960 the statistics were grim.
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On average, black Americans earned half as much as white Americans and were twice as likely to be unemployed.
Despite a string of court victories during the late 1950s, many black Americans were still second-class citizens. -
In the North, too, black Americans suffered humiliation, insult, embarrassment, and discrimination. Many neighborhoods, businesses, and unions almost totally excluded blacks.
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black unemployment soared as labor-saving technology eliminated many semiskilled and unskilled jobs that historically provided many blacks with work.
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During the 1960s, however, a growing hunger for full equality arose among black Americans. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave voice to the new mood:
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We can't wait any longer. Now is the time."
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statistics were grim
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Despite a string of court victories during the late 1950s, many black Americans were still second-class citizens.
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just 49 southern school districts had desegregated and less than 1.17 percent of black schoolchildren in the 11 states of the old Confederacy attended public school with white classmates.
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Many neighborhoods, businesses, and unions almost totally excluded blacks
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northern cities black unemployment soared
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02 Mar 10
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On average, black Americans earned half as much as white Americans and were twice as likely to be unemployed.
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many black Americans were still second-class citizens
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just 49 southern school districts had desegregated and less than 1.17 percent of black schoolchildren in the 11 states of the old Confederacy attended public school with white classmates
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In the North, too, black Americans suffered humiliation, insult, embarrassment, and discrimination. Many neighborhoods, businesses, and unions almost totally excluded blacks.
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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave voice to the new mood
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