Like the time at the movies when all the blacks have to sit on the top balcony and the whites sit down below. ... Even to be a family in what seemed to be nothing more then a tool shed nowadays, feed everyone, pay for school supplies, then on top of it all even pay rent for the house they were living in. ...
Statistics show that seven percent of African-American women worked in jobs that paid at or below federal minimum wage in 2011. ... The wage gap has had dramatic effects against women of color, making it almost impossible to pay for responsibilities like bills, food, and living necessities. ...
One third of African American families fell below the poverty level and black unemployment was at a rate of 30 to 40 percent, two and half times as much as whites. ... During the 20's and 80's African Americans were treated poorly, deprived of proper living conditions, education and labor. ...
The Greenleaf boys had joined the military and made something of themselves: "The two of them were living now about two miles down the highway on a piece of land that the government had helped them to buy and in a brick duplex bungalow that the government had helped to build and pay for" (O"Connor 1445). ... Greenleaf's religion is also below Mrs. ...
