William Julius Wilson Quotes on History
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During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society.
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In the first half of the 1990s, there was an effort to severely divide racial and ethnic groups.
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The basic difference between the period after 1973 and the previous period is that the nation's equalizing institutions - unions, public education, the welfare state broadly defined - were much weaker in the present period.
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There is some evidence that some New Deal programs in some of the states discriminated against blacks. But I have been sort of - I've been impressed overall with the relatively fair treatment that blacks received during the New Deal.
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There were some black nationalists who argued that blacks should not be fighting in a white man's war, that Hitler didn't do anything to blacks, so why should blacks be involved in this war? But that was a minority view among a small group of black nationalists.
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Yes, there has been a really steady increase in income inequality since the early 1970s.