The African and Mexican Americans of Texas weren’t permitted to work on oil fields as wildcatters. Instead they did Unskilled work such as cleaning, laundry, and cooking. However, it wasn’t all bad. Though the work may be unskilled African and Mexican Americans could still make decent money. For example, Ford automobiles took off with the discovery of oil because it was now easy to make roads and gas was cheap allowing many more people to own cars. This brought option of working for Ford in which you got the same pay as whites however, significantly harder work. But, there was still another option. You could do what Willsie Lee McKinney did, she was an African American and worked as a maid in Midland. What caused her to come here was the fact that she could make $1 an hour. This helped her earn enough money to go to school. Because of oil people generally had more money and with their husbands gone the women of the house might need more help and could pay
The African and Mexican Americans of Texas weren’t permitted to work on oil fields as wildcatters. Instead they did Unskilled work such as cleaning, laundry, and cooking. However, it wasn’t all bad. Though the work may be unskilled African and Mexican Americans could still make decent money. For example, Ford automobiles took off with the discovery of oil because it was now easy to make roads and gas was cheap allowing many more people to own cars. This brought option of working for Ford in which you got the same pay as whites however, significantly harder work. But, there was still another option. You could do what Willsie Lee McKinney did, she was an African American and worked as a maid in Midland. What caused her to come here was the fact that she could make $1 an hour. This helped her earn enough money to go to school. Because of oil people generally had more money and with their husbands gone the women of the house might need more help and could pay