By Paul T. Miller
ISBN-10: 0415806011
ISBN-13: 9780415806015
The struggle industries linked to global battle II introduced unheard of employment possibilities for African american citizens in San Francisco, a urban whose African American inhabitants grew through over 650% among 1940 and 1945. With this inhabitants elevate got here a rise in racial discrimination directed at African american citizens, basically within the employment and housing sectors. In San Francisco, so much African american citizens have been successfully barred from renting or deciding to buy houses in all yet a number of neighborhoods and, apart from the well-educated and fortunate, employment possibilities have been open in near-entry degrees for white-collar positions or in unskilled and semi-skilled blue-collar positions. As San Francisco's African American inhabitants elevated, civil rights teams shaped coalitions to wood and protest, thereby successfully increasing task possibilities and commencing the housing marketplace for African American San Franciscans. This publication describes and explains many of the stumbling blocks and triumphs confronted and completed in components similar to housing, employment, schooling and civil rights. It reaches throughout disciplines from African American reports and historical past into city reviews and sociology.
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In what is one of the most well known instances of police harassment during this era, NAACP president and well-known civil rights leader Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett was pulled over by a police officer one evening in 1947. As Tom Fleming recalls it: He was driving out California Street. I guess he had a patient way out there, you know. And this cop pulled him over and said he’d been following him for so many blocks and he’d gone through the stop signs. ” So Goodlett said, “Listen, Mr. Officer. I don’t know your name but my name is Dr.
Goodlett, 1963. D. , owned San Francisco’s most influential African American newspaper—the Sun-Reporter—and was a member of the World Peace Council. San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. The Postwar 1940s 19 However, the police were not the only ones to perpetrate crimes against African American San Franciscans. In a special report to Edmund G. Brown, San Francisco’s District Attorney, R. J. Reynolds indicated that a combination of wartime lay-offs and lower-class migrants contributed to the increased crime rate.
What have you been doing, nigger? ” At his trial, the officers admitted that Guiden was not drunk nor had he hit them but that he had resisted arrest. Proving that institutional racism did not stop at the rank and file of the police force the judge presiding over Guiden’s case found him guilty and, after issuing him a six-month suspended sentence, quipped, “I don’t know what to think about you guys. I ought to have a jail just to put you in and keep you” (People’s World, 1945, This Happened). Unfortunately, the above incident may have been only one occurrence in a pattern of police harassment directed at African American men.
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