“The charting system was predicated on a segregated market”
Rock and roll is usually explained as rhythm-and-blues music—that is, music performed by black...
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“Contrary to our popular assumptions about the intent and effect of both the New Deal and the G.I. Bill, they were not intended to, nor did they, provide all poor Americans with equal economic opportunity”
Up through at least the middle of the twentieth century, the government of the...
“…from 1970 to the present,… Black Americans are much more likely to stay in place and much less likely than whites to engage in…moves significant enough to change circumstances and opportunities”
For crucial periods of this country’s history, African-Americans were far more likely than whites...