AFROAM 236 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Executive Order 8802, Duke Energy, Domestic Worker
25 Aug 2016
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Convict leasing became popularized after the end of slavery. By the end of the 19880s; at least ten thousand black men were slaving in forced labor mines (blackmon et al 2008). Seasons large number of black people are often arrested for crimes even if they did not commit them. Also smaller fractions such as being unemployed or walking by railroad tracks were considered felonies and given two sentences. The conditions of those working and convict leasing we"re often poor which led them to have any diseases, acting out of physical aggression, and prison sentences never ending. She was a domestic worker during the mid-twentieth century. She began working in domestic work at a young age. At the age of ten she already had a full time job working where she made fifty cents a week (kytle et al. She works towards employment rights for black women by helping with the new deal for black women with the president.
