Racial Segregation at Workplace an ongoing problem Sofie

Racial Segregation at Workplace (an ongoing problem) Sofie Momin Jessina Tom “It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me. ” - Isabel Wilkerson

Poverty in America

• Notice the similarity in the two maps. • Majority of the poverty lies in the areas with most Black American population. • This provides more evidence that Racial Segregation is still a problem even in the 21 st century.

BLACKS WERE THE LAST TO BE HIRED AND THE FIRST TO BE FIRED. Racial Segregation at Jobs in North

In most hospitals, Black Nurses were allowed to attend White patients, but were segregated from their fellow White Nurses in dining halls.

In manufacturing plants White workers would work under a Black foreman but refuses to work with Black workers.

Most Colored migrants had to survive by doing the lowest paying jobs –iron and steel foundries, meat packing and slaughtering. The colored migrants “only did the dirty work”. -Colored steelworker

The hiring managers at A. O. Smith Company made it clear they did not want colored workers because he said the company “never did and didn’t intend to employ Negros”.

George Swanson Starling had to work as a coach attendant. It was a job he was overqualified and overeducated for. Also he was paid less that his white counterparts even in the enlightened North.

Robert Joseph Perishing Foster, a qualified surgeon, had to seek work at Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company to collect urine samples and to do routine examinations of customers wanting coverage. He had to take up a job that was way beneath his qualifications.

One day, Robert went to a colored couple’s house to do his routine check up. When he asked for the wife to be examined she refused saying, “I told you I wasn’t going to let no nigger doctor examine me”. - This is the scariest part of racisms when blacks start to believe they are somehow below whites.

White unions refused membership for colored workers; restricting work immigrants can do, keeping colored wages low, and leaving them unprotected during cutbacks.

Colored Women had the hardest time finding jobs out of all the immigrants pouring into the North and West. Many industries refused to hire them, so they were stuck doing domestic work.

For the Black Women: • Many employers started asking for college degree, which majority of unskilled workers did not have. • Demanded black women to take voice testes to throw out those from South.

Characteristics of Individuals in 1900 and 1990

The 2008 censes show black men earned only 71% of what white men earned. The average hourly wage for white male worker was $20. 84, while for black male worker it was $ 14. 90.

“Nearly 90% of U. S. occupations can be categorized as racially segregated, ” said Darrick Hamilton, who co-authored the Whiter Jobs, Higher Wages paper with EPI’s Austin and Duke University Professor William Darity

The Higher Wages paper shows that, in occupations where black men are underrepresented, the average annual salary is $50, 533; in occupations where black men were prominent, the average annual salary is $37, 005.

Still to this day getting an education is not enough for colored people to get a high paying and well reputed occupation; as it was the case for George and Robert.

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