The GI Bill sort of supercharged Jim Crow, didn't it? Meanwhile corporations were moving upwardly mobile white daddies here and there all around the country, uprooting families and depriving women of the kinship networks that made child-rearing a lot easier. Fortunately this helped spur the women's movement of the '60s and '70s. Meanwhil…
The GI Bill sort of supercharged Jim Crow, didn't it? Meanwhile corporations were moving upwardly mobile white daddies here and there all around the country, uprooting families and depriving women of the kinship networks that made child-rearing a lot easier. Fortunately this helped spur the women's movement of the '60s and '70s. Meanwhile, in response to the civil rights movement of the '50s and early '60s -- and the barbaric response of southern whites to it -- we finally got the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-60s. Then of course the White Guys Struck Back with Reagan and Reaganomics, and we're still trying to dig out from the mess that created -- and is still creating, come to think of it.
For anyone interested in further reading on this, I recommend Heather McGhee's THE SUM OF US: What Racism Costs All of Us and How We Can Prosper Together (2021). McGhee talks economics in a way that makes it accessible to non-economists (and people intimidated by economics <g>). Important book.
The GI Bill sort of supercharged Jim Crow, didn't it? Meanwhile corporations were moving upwardly mobile white daddies here and there all around the country, uprooting families and depriving women of the kinship networks that made child-rearing a lot easier. Fortunately this helped spur the women's movement of the '60s and '70s. Meanwhile, in response to the civil rights movement of the '50s and early '60s -- and the barbaric response of southern whites to it -- we finally got the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-60s. Then of course the White Guys Struck Back with Reagan and Reaganomics, and we're still trying to dig out from the mess that created -- and is still creating, come to think of it.
For anyone interested in further reading on this, I recommend Heather McGhee's THE SUM OF US: What Racism Costs All of Us and How We Can Prosper Together (2021). McGhee talks economics in a way that makes it accessible to non-economists (and people intimidated by economics <g>). Important book.
HCR talks Micro & Macroeconomics in accessible concepts. But, yes on McGhee - 2 Heathers are better than 1.
Also https://www.history.com/news/gi-bill-black-wwii-veterans-benefits
Thanks! Very useful and accessible account. "Some Southern Democrats" indeed!
Thank You Judith.