How Did The Us Economy Affect The Economy

The role of the economy in 1863 – 1968 was the most significant factor, but not the only factor, in both advancing and reducing civil rights. The economy drove other factors such as was, politics and individuals. The underlying tactic of the dominant White American polity throughout the period 1863-1968 was to deny the possibility of African Americans the chance to achieve any degree of prosperity. During the civil war, the Republican Party’s philosophy towards African Americans was linked to the concept of Manifest destiny; if African Americans were to achieve wealth and prosperity they needed to be granted free labour after the US civil war. Additionally, the economic depression of 1870 had a negative effect on civil rights as it introduced
Civil rights was not a priority for President Roosevelt during the 1930s; this was seen in his inaugural speech on June 27, 1936 “For too many of us the political equality we once had won was meaningless in the face of economic inequality” , this quote suggested how the state of the economy was his main priority. If the US wanted to be an active role in the war they required a stable economy. By 1945 many sectors quickly adapted to defence production. As pre-war production stimulated the economy there was a need for workers (of whatever colour). The passing of Executive Order 8802 in June 25, 1941, was a law implemented to prohibit racial discrimination in the national defence industry. This law was implemented, as The March on Washington in July 1942 posed a threat to the economy as African Americans threatened to strike. The US joined the war in December 1941 they desperately needed workers to maintain the economy. Therefore, the order ended the March which raised African American employment. With the industry groaning at full capacity by 1943-1944 unemployment rates fell 1.2 percent, or 670,000 in labour force that had grown industrial employment represented a considerable expansion of better-paying jobs. The law permitted African Americans’ to enlist as soldiers and become factory workers. Once the US joined the war, the Double V Campaign developed, as African Americans’ still faced racism. African
The U.S. economy entered the decade of the 1960s with high levels of unemployment and excess capacity. The millions of unemployed workers and idle plants and machines meant that industrial production could increase rapidly in response to rising demand. The economy crisis (1957-61) and African American experience during WW2 allowed civil rights activists to pursue social reforms such as the desegregation of schools and achieving voting rights. In the mid-1960s this transition was helped along by government economic policies. These were, first, the Kennedy-Johnson tax cut of 1964. As Kennedy pushed to promote economic policies this encouraged African Americans’ to continue pushing for their social rights. Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka 1954, the US Supreme Court reversed the “separate but equal” doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). This “separate but equal” doctrine became the legal base for racial segregation in schools, colleges, and universities. Desegregated education had an economically significant, positive effect on black's income and high school completion rates… The earnings gap between Southern-born black men and non-Southern-born black men in the same birth cohort narrowed by about 10 percent in the post-desegregation group . Brown, declared that racially segregated schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In 1950… the greatest progress had