AJaRuleStan
All Star
i wanna see if they got any info on the black family unit in the 40s and 50s... before the 60s..
Pre and After 1960s socioeconomical data has been collected for blacks and discussed ad nauseam for decades. The data shows that murder rates among black males were going down during the 1950s, while it went up after the 1960s, reaching levels more than double what they had been prior. Most black children were raised in two-parent families before the 1960s. And if my memory is correct, census date between 1890 to 1950 showed that the black labor force participation rates were on par with whites. And keep in mind, white racism and black poverty was much higher pre the 1960s than after, thus, the changes we see like the one for the black family unit was caused by something that was introduced in the 60s not the legacy of slavery or jim crow.
I would also like to state that the most damaging blow to blacks in this country after slavery(which could be argued) is without a doubt the destruction of the black family unit.