Joshua Weitz is a research associate at the Academic-Industry Research Network
Joshua Weitz
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How the Disappearance of Unionized Jobs Obliterated an Emergent Black Middle Class
In this introduction to our project, 鈥淔ifty Years After: Black Employment in the United States Under the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,鈥� we outline the socioeconomic forces behind the promising rise and disastrous fall of an African American blue-collar middle class.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Omission
On June 2, 1965, under a mandate established by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the U.S. Congress created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to enforce federal anti-discrimination laws related to employment. The expectation was that African Americans would be prime beneficiaries of the EEOC.