She found a family willing to take house her, feed her and pay her minimal wages until she learned her chores better. ... He knew he had to go up north and find a better job. ... It pays $2.75 per day and you get a rent-free room to live in. ... The company pays for travel to get there. ... The men of this union decided to strike for better pay and shorter hours. ...
She found a family willing to take house her, feed her and pay her minimal wages until she learned her chores better. ... He knew he had to go up north and find a better job. ... It pays $2.75 per day and you get a rent-free room to live in. ... The company pays for travel to get there. ... The men of this union decided to strike for better pay and shorter hours. ...
Blacks found job hunting to be a challenge because of this. Blacks had to take the jobs that the whites did not want, which usually were the undesirable jobs. ... Thomas Jackson, which is in regards to her getting a job. ... # If she were a white woman with these qualifications, she would have been given the highest paying job for a typist. ... With the jobs that black people did acquire came scrutiny and segregation. ...
Affirmative action has not completely done its job. ... The African American tester in each pair received no job referrals. ... The Caucasian woman declined the job offer. ... Affirmative action has opened workplace doors for people of all colors who have been excluded from better-paying and high-status jobs in the past (Affirmative). ... Although affirmative action has helped so many people, it has not finished its job. ...
I want her to forget all the times she was stressed because she did not have enough money to pay rent. ... In "Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich we see how much a low wage worker struggles to pay rent and live a decent life. ... They hope that they get enough money to pay the expensive hotel that they have been practically forced to move in to due to lack of money. If you can't put up the two months' rent you need to secure an apartment, you end up paying through the nose for a room by the week. ... It is even harder for Tanya to find a job after her record of being i...
In the beginning, conditions were harsh, but some black soldiers refused any pay for 18 months to protest the unfair treatment, and were given equally granted equal pay and improved conditions (PBS). ... Soon, African Americans started to receive fair advantages like, high paying jobs, the right to a fair education and many other opportunities. ... African American fighter pilots were trained as a part of the Army Air Force, and given equal pay as whites (Memory). ...
In the United States, Jim Crow laws banned black citizens from obtaining jobs and access to public places such as restaurants and hotels. ... Zecozy Williams, a black woman who intensely supported the bus boycotts, drove all of her friends to work after driving her husband to his job and her children to school. ... If they passed the impossibly difficult exams, they were required to pay a poll tax, which many poor black citizens couldn't afford. However, white citizens were not required to pass any tests or pay any fees, also infringing upon the equality of all people. ...
The slaughterhouse was probably the worst conditions possible, but blacks were made to work in these horrible conditions because the pay was good forty dollars a week, while white teachers whose efforts were much more bearable, were being paid fifty dollars a week. Not only were jobs for blacks difficult and tedious, but food was also hard to come by. ... But the requirements included: the ability to read and write, which disqualified the many blacks who had little access to education; property ownership, something few blacks were able to obtain; and paying a poll tax, which was too great a...
Why should we do the dirtiest jobs for the lowest pay? Why should we do the hardest work for the lowest pay? Why should we pay the most money for the worst kind of food and the most money for the worst kind of place to live in? ... After the 8th grade, Malcolm moved to Boston where he worked various jobs and eventually became involved in criminal activity.4 In his autobiography Malcolm X referred to this part of his past as "Detroit Red". ...
For example, I would argue how there is more labor jobs given to Blacks in jail than Blacks who live in poor communities. ... Many Black males who didn't receive jobs in America made cheap wages in the prison industry. Is it ironic that a black male cannot afford a job in society, but soon as a black male is incarcerated he has huge amount of work. ... Another thing the nation is paying attention to immigration. ... Mean are sometimes denied the right to vote, discriminated from having a job, and public benefits", during the Jim Crow period. ...
Maya had many jobs while living in San Francisco. She was a Creole cook, a tap dancer, and did odd-jobs to support her and her son. ... The only thing I could find about Maya's time with Paul was that Maya resented Paul for leaving her and her son, and refrained from paying any tribute to him by mentioning him in any of her writings. ...
Instead, like so many black women of her time, she had to settle for the jobs she could find, working as a stenographer and a waitress. ... For ten years Langston lived with his grandmother as his mother moved from town to town in search of a decent job. ... Seeing his son's determination, Langston's father finally relented and agreed to Smith 4 help pay his tuition and living expenses at Columbia. ...
Luella Bates Washington Jones told Roger about her childhood, lacking detail but getting the message across about the American dream and getting a job. ... Clarence pays Betsy for the alcohol they drank and then he leaves without ever coming back. ... Prostitution is not considered a real job, thus not applying to the American dream of getting a real job, working hard, and earning a good living. ...
After King accepted the job he started to use a peaceful methods of protesting. ... Soon after he took the job at the MIA, King was known nation wide. ... Malcolm did very well in school but, he dropped out after he reached high school because, teachers would often tell him that it was unrealistic for a black to have a real job. ... X said that, "An integrated cup of coffee is insufficient pay for 400 years of slave labor."" ...
The Differences between "Rosie- and the Woman in "That Damned Fence- During the time of World War Two, there were hard working women taking over the jobs in industry that were usually held by men. ... She was making history and proud to be a true patriot working as hard or harder as men doing the same job. ... Black women were left to do the dirtier less paying positions and weren't allowed the same privileges as white women. ... After the men came home from war the "Rosie's- would stay at home with the kids and give the jobs back to the men. ...
After King accepted the job he started to use a peaceful methods of protesting. ... Soon after he took the job at the MIA, King was known nation wide. ... Malcolm did very well in school but, he dropped out after he reached high school because, teachers would often tell him that it was unrealistic for a black to have a real job. ... X said that, "An integrated cup of coffee is insufficient pay for 400 years of slave labor."" ...
Within this structure those lower paying jobs previously held by unskilled, primarily non-white Americans have shifted overseas to cheaper, foreign laborers. ... In support of this he writes, "For example, recent studies reveal that, although they oppose such preferential racial policies as college admission quotas or job hiring and promotion strategies designed to achieve equal outcomes, most white Americans approve of such opportunity-enhancing affirmative action policies as race-targeted programs for job training, special education and recruitment." ...
It turned out to be a hard life for many as finding jobs and residence proved to be very hard. ... The New South was emerging with more jobs; more people were migrating to the towns and cities. ... With the ever growing areas of industry and technology many jobs were becoming available, but with no room for ever advancing in many cases and very few rules. ... They had long hours, little pay and harsh working conditions. ... "With Fords mass production of automobiles came jobs for many in steel and rubber industries, service stations, garages and construction of roads. ...
., where for the duration of the war he ministered without pay to sick and wounded soldiers" (Olsen-Smith). ... In 1848, many years before he wrote this poem, Whitman had lost a job at a newspaper because "of his unyielding support of the Wilmot Proviso of 1846" (Olsen-Smith). ... His father had moved to Mexico and became a successful businessman, eventually helping Hughes go to, and pay for college. ...
Often black passengers had to pay at the front of the bus then get off and wait for the driver to let them in from the back. ... The WPC weren't objecting to the increase in bus fare because they were unwilling to pay, but because of the way that black passengers would be treated in spite of the increased rate. ... The boycott cost many bus drivers their jobs, forced many businesses to close, and increased already hostile relations between blacks and whites. ...
While attending high school, DuBois helped out his mother by working odd jobs after school such as mowing lawns, selling newspapers and tea, and writing for the Springfield Republican. ... DuBois received scholarships to pay for tuition at Harvard and as a student he was focused on philosophy. ... DuBois was offered a teaching job at Wilberforce in Ohio, with an annual salary of $800.00 per year, and he accepted (Thomas Gale). ...
A major conflict that stands out in my mind that Richard has faced was when he first applies for a job. ... They said "fell no hate for the men who had driven [him] from the job. ... Whites domination over blacks was apparent in Richard's life as he described the horrendous beating of a black woman who did not pay her bills, and his later match with a car of white boys. ...
They were smoking and drinking, paying no attention to what the guests have to say. ... They said "Nice job," but this really isn't much at all. ... To me, this was very ironic because why would they do that to someone and then praise him for a job well done? ...
If any African American was caught breaking their labor contracts they would be fined and then hired to pay out that fine. ... If any blacks violated the laws, they risked their homes, their jobs, even their lives. ... It is now illegal to deny someone of a job, enrollment in a school or a place in society due to the color of their skin or where they came from. ...
She was happy that she completed her education but had little hope of getting a better job. When Rosa had finished school she was lucky enough to get a job as a seamstress in a local sewing factory. ... Parks recalls the humiliation: "I didn't want to pay my fare and then go around the back door, because many times, even if you did that, you might not get on the bus at all. ... Parks and others lost their jobs, and she was harassed and threatened. ...
