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It hypothesized that the destruction of the black nuclear family structure would hinder further progress toward economic and political equality. [6] When Moynihan wrote in 1965 on the coming destruction of the black family, the out-of-wedlock birth rate was 25% among black people. [7]
With a runtime of 28 minutes, the film depicts an elderly white family in the 1950s selling their home. When the family's patriarch shows the home to an interested African American family, neighbors within the all-white community begin to gossip. The elderly white family became the target of harassment and threats by bigoted neighbors, who do ...
The Sweet Flypaper of Life is a 1955 fiction and photography book by American photographer Roy DeCarava and American writer Langston Hughes.DeCarava's photos and Hughes's story, told through the character Sister Mary Bradley, depict and describe Black family life in Harlem, New York City, in the 1950s.
A poor Black family strives to build a better life in 1950s Chicago. However, when they receive a big life insurance policy after the patriarch's death, it only breeds more chaos and division.
In the colorful pages of this book, readers follow the narrator in and around her home where Black family life has its own flavor: loud game nights, spontaneous dancing, cousin “pallet nights ...
The History Museum seeks 1950s furniture and furnishings for an upcoming transformation of its Worker’s Home. The house will reopen Nov. 9, 2023. History Museum seeks items related to African ...
Palmour Street, A Study of Family Life (1949) (also titled "Palmour Street (1949) | A Black Family in Gainesville, GA") is a short black and white documentary film written, produced and directed by the prolific filmmaker and "father of Public Access Television", George C. Stoney, and his collaborator Bill Clifford. [1]
The literary creation of Black Chicago residents from 1925 to 1950 was also prolific, and the city's Black Renaissance rivaled that of the Harlem Renaissance. Prominent writers included Richard Wright (author of Native Son ), Willard Motley , William Attaway , Frank Marshall Davis , St. Clair Drake , Horace R. Cayton, Jr. , and Margaret Walker .