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Today, the average white family has roughly 10 times the amount of wealth as the average black family, and white college graduates have over seven times more wealth than Black college graduates. The wealth of the United States was greatly enhanced by the exploitation of African-American slave labor: some argue it is the bedrock for the U.S ...
African-American family structure. The family of teacher Hampton Cornell Williams, Emma Christie Williams, and children in Gainesville, Florida, circa 1900. The out of wedlock birth rates by race in the United States from 1940 to 2014. The rate for African Americans is the purple line. Data is from the National Vital Statistics System Reports ...
"The history of the family and the complexity of social change." American Historical Review 96.1 (1991): 95-124. Hareven, Tamara K. "The home and the family in historical perspective." Social research (1991): 253-285. Hareven, Tamara K., and Maris A. Vinovskis, eds. Family and population in 19th century America (Princeton University Press, 2015).
The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970. [ 1] It was substantially caused by poor economic and social conditions due to prevalent racial ...
Social class is an important theme for historians of the United States for decades. The subject touches on many other elements of American history such as that of changing U.S. education, with greater education attainment leading to expanding household incomes for many social groups.
The Fairbanks ( Fairbank) family is a noted American and Canadian family of English origin. The family descends from colonist Jonathan Fairbanks, who emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts in 1633 with his family, settling at Dedham, Massachusetts three years later. [ 1] There he built the Fairbanks House, today the oldest surviving verified timber ...
In 1789, the at-large popular vote, the winner-take-all method, began with Pennsylvania and Maryland. Massachusetts, Virginia and Delaware used a district plan by popular vote, and state legislatures chose in the five other states participating in the election (Connecticut, Georgia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and South Carolina).
Eugenics, the set of beliefs and practices which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population, [ 1][ 2] played a significant role in the history and culture of the United States from the late 19th century into the mid-20th century. [ 3] The cause became increasingly promoted by intellectuals of the Progressive Era. [ 4][ 5]