The Other America Did all Americans have a chance at the American Dream?

The Inner City Technology creates manufacturing jobs, GATT eliminates tariffs to help trade but as “white” suburbs flourish in the 50s, the cities suffer Due to “white flight”, cities lose tax base, jobs, and consumers. Poverty increases in the inner city (urban decay) Urban Renewal Govt creates Housing & Urban Development (HUD) to fix cities HUD begins clearing out run down areas replacing them with businesses but not enough housing Example: Poor Mexicans forced out of an LA “barrio” Chavez Ravine for Dodger Stadium, not new housing

Mexicans Seek Employment 1942: Due to a shortage of agricultural workers, US begins bracero program (Mexicans can temporarily work in US) Millions don’t return to Mexico, Americans resent Mexicans Longoria Incident: Undertaker in Texas refuses to bury Mex- American war hero, Mex-Ams outraged at the discrimination Many schools in California begin to segregate Hispanic students from White students Native Americans Nat-Ams form Congress of American Indians to improve lives Termination Policy: US announces it will no longer give federal economic support to tribes, policy fails

Jim Crow South African-Americans who remained in the South deal with harsh realities of Jim Crow laws Many blacks in north don’t realize how bad it is So. blacks 1955: Emmett Till, a fourteen year old African-American from Chicago heads to Mississippi to visit relatives Till whistles at a white women in Bryant’s Grocery Store Roy Bryant & JW Milam kidnap Till from uncle’s house, kill him and sink his body to bottom of a river Both men arrested but found not guilty by an all-white jury, northern blacks & whites finally realize how bad South is