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What effects did this prosperity have on the way of life of different groups in US society
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What effects did this prosperity have on the way of life of different groups in US society? - The prosperity of 1945 to 1963 did not reach all Americans, blacks were largely excluded from prosperity, 30 percent of the black population remained bellow the poverty line. As white prosperity increased so did the alienation of blacks from social equality. It reached a point where blacks weren't allowed to buy the new suburban housing in California. The prosperity turned against the black sharecroppers as well, the invention of the more efficient mechanical cotton picker, which could do the work of fifty men in 1944, meant that thousands of black sharecroppers and farm labourers lost their jobs and only source of income. In desperation the black families left their homes in the Mississippi Delta in search for better jobs, higher wages, decent housing, and greater social equality. This sparked of the...
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