Workers on Arrival by Joe William Trotter Jr

Author:Joe William Trotter Jr.
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780520299450
Publisher: University of California Press

CONCLUSION

By the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Modern Black Freedom struggle had dismantled the segregationist system. Significant numbers of blacks from poor and working-class families moved into middle-class, business, and professional occupations as well as skilled and supervisory jobs in the industrial sector. Fueled by the increasing grassroots mobilization of African American workers and their communities, the struggle against Jim Crow inspired a host of other liberation movements among diverse ethnic and nationality groups as well as women at home and abroad. Yet, the collapse of the white supremacist edifice coincided with the decline of the manufacturing economy, the resurgence of conservatism in U.S. politics, and the fall of the black urban industrial working class by the turn of the twenty-first century. Government repression of social justice movements, grassroots white opposition to equal opportunity programs, and rising levels of unemployment and poverty unraveled the lives and livelihoods of industrial black workers and their families. As we will see in chapter 7, these destructive social processes would also precipitate a spirited search for new and more effective strategies for social change as the twentieth century slipped away.

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