HIST 264 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Housing Authority, Sharecropping, Sleeping Car
6 Jul 2017
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7. 5 million by 1940 continues to increase, but not as much. Segregation and disenfranchisement these two laws upheld by the supreme court inability to vote. Sharecropping much easier to do thing by tractor pushed out because of technology changes in structure of rural agriculture need to be able to a ord tractor or else productivity goes down in comparison. Large landholding dominated by companies no room for the poorer ones. Persecution fear of violence from hate groups (i. e. : kkk) Overpopulation or war is not much of a factor. Johnson-reed act a lot of open jobs and cheap, unskilled labor. Wwi, wwii demand for cheap labor low wage, unskilled laborers. Wage di erential common pull factor: chinese can make 10x as much money here than china same thing is here. 4-5x more money in philadelphia"s factories than the black man could have made in. Atlanta worth leaving your family for it send back home money as well.
