Significance: The Chicago Defender was the first black owned Chicago newspaper and inspired other blacks wanting to expand and create their own businesses, but didn't take action out of fear.
Short Term Impact:
During the early 1900s many blacks were farmers or unskilled workers and were payed the same as their white counterparts. However, blacks didn’t have many counterparts because they worked the bottom barrel jobs, which is why they were payed the cheapest. Additionally the majority of blacks lived in rural areas because of poverty and not many black children went to school (say why). Going to school gave you access to better jobs and increase your social and economic status because educated workers were a high commodity. Even if blacks were to be educated they wern’t gadunteed better jobs because due to continued ehite racial speriority even after the end of slavery and segregation it was hard for blacks to be employed for more than unskilled labor. The situation for blacks in America, transfers over to Abbott because he starts his newspaper with twenty five cents, which is about eight dollars today, by paying for about three hundred copies to be printed. As an initial investment that is quite low and considering Abbott was working out of his apartment, it shows that Abbott was struggling financially like many blacks.
Long Term Impact:
My topic happened in the early 1900s because that’s when Abbott decided to start his newspaper. My topic was not something that was being lead up to, like a specific event, such as the Ref Summer Riots of 1919. However, the barriers that affected my topic are the results of specific events and situations and at this time. The impactful economic aspects of this time were that many blacks lived in poverty because they mostly only had access to the low paying jobs of unskilled workers and farmers. Anither economic impact later on was the Great Depression from 1929 to 1933, where many lost their jobs and businesses had decreased income (why did businesses have decreased income? And what were the causes of the Great Depression to make people lose their jobs? Word it as cause and effect between lost jobs and lost business revenue
Short Term Impact:
During the early 1900s many blacks were farmers or unskilled workers and were payed the same as their white counterparts. However, blacks didn’t have many counterparts because they worked the bottom barrel jobs, which is why they were payed the cheapest. Additionally the majority of blacks lived in rural areas because of poverty and not many black children went to school (say why). Going to school gave you access to better jobs and increase your social and economic status because educated workers were a high commodity. Even if blacks were to be educated they wern’t gadunteed better jobs because due to continued ehite racial speriority even after the end of slavery and segregation it was hard for blacks to be employed for more than unskilled labor. The situation for blacks in America, transfers over to Abbott because he starts his newspaper with twenty five cents, which is about eight dollars today, by paying for about three hundred copies to be printed. As an initial investment that is quite low and considering Abbott was working out of his apartment, it shows that Abbott was struggling financially like many blacks.
Long Term Impact:
My topic happened in the early 1900s because that’s when Abbott decided to start his newspaper. My topic was not something that was being lead up to, like a specific event, such as the Ref Summer Riots of 1919. However, the barriers that affected my topic are the results of specific events and situations and at this time. The impactful economic aspects of this time were that many blacks lived in poverty because they mostly only had access to the low paying jobs of unskilled workers and farmers. Anither economic impact later on was the Great Depression from 1929 to 1933, where many lost their jobs and businesses had decreased income (why did businesses have decreased income? And what were the causes of the Great Depression to make people lose their jobs? Word it as cause and effect between lost jobs and lost business revenue