Labor Strike in 1920's

Labor Strike in 1920's

This image demonstrates a labor strike. The workers are upset with their low wages and poor working conditions. This image was taken during the Great Depression but it is described in the article that minority workers found little difference between times during the Great Depression and the 1920’s, when the economy was “normal”. This was due to racial discrimination. African Americans would often be the first to lose their job just because of their skin color. African Americans were also subjected to jobs that were meaningless, tedious, and sometimes of intense labor. The wages that they received for the work they did was also minimal and very difficult to live off of. Langston Hughes shows the tedious and thoughtless labor that African Americans were subjected to in his poem "Elevator Boy".

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"Minority Groups and the Great Depression." Great Depression and the New Deal Reference Library. Ed. Allison McNeill, Richard C. Hanes, and Sharon M. Hanes. Vol. 1: Almanac. Detroit: UXL, 2003. 172-186. U.S. History in Context. Web. 14 Dec. 2015.

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December 14, 2015

Laura Watters

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