Negro Factory Workers

Under paid workers of the Wilson & Bennett Company formed together to protest about the wages they were being paid. Not only were African Americans striking but also whites as well. Blacks came together to form a union called NNC (National Negro Congress). NNC goal was not only to make it where wages were equal but to also make it where whites respected blacks as workers and citizens. The Great Depression caused the negro cultural workers to work at starvation levels. Black men who obtained skilled work in the steel mills were at risk of losing their jobs to white men (most were not skilled) who felt that their skin color put them above an African American. Whites felt as though blacks were more qualified in the hottest, dirtiest, and most …show more content…
Educated young black individuals were disfranchised, threatened, and segregated because of their higher level of education. Gender and race segregated jobs made it easier for companies to get away with paying everyone differently. Black women made a little less than a black man but white women made double of what black women made. White men were the only ones who received a living wage. The SNYC (Southern Negro Youth Congress) motivated the working black class to attend cultural activities and have some knowledge about their history so they could know how to deal with problems that their community consisted of. There were even a few white women who supported their female black counterparts. Unions such as TSLU later on down the line became interracial in order to get the support of white production workers. TLSU paved the way that helped bring humans their rights back and also supplied protection against labor and racial abuses. Jim crow seemed to invade every part of America, enticing many African Americans and whites to comply. Many African Americans believed that Jim crow threatened the reality of equality for blacks and their