6 William Julius Wilson Quotes on History

William Julius Wilson quotes on history

16. During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society.

25. In the first half of the 1990s, there was an effort to severely divide racial and ethnic groups.

39. 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.

47. 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.

48. 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.

56. Yes, there has been a really steady increase in income inequality since the early 1970s.