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Thus, the racial wage gap is just one aspect of inequality in the United States. A criticism of the racial wage gap has been noted by a few scholars: the racial wage gap fails to account for the number of people of a specific race that are unemployed. [6] [21] Examining median incomes does not reflect the growing racial disparity in joblessness ...
The United States Constitution does not directly address employment discrimination, but its prohibitions on discrimination by the federal government have been held to protect federal government employees. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution limit the power of the federal and state governments to discriminate ...
The way it was in the South: The Black experience in Georgia (University of Georgia Press, 2001). Grantham, Dewey W. "Georgia Politics and the Disfranchisement of the Negro." Georgia Historical Quarterly 32.1 (1948): 1-21. online; Hornsby, Alton. "Black Public Education in Atlanta, Georgia, 1954-1973: From Segregation to Segregation."
A former Athens-Clarke police officer has filed a federal lawsuit against the Athens-County government on the grounds he was discriminated against when he was fired in 2021 when he was alleged to ...
FILE - Rep. Jesse Petrea (R-Savnnah) on the Georgia General Assembly House floor. House Bill 1105, authored by Petrea, passed the state House on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024.
In a 12-year high, a worker died every 99 minutes, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported in its annual statement. Among white workers the five-year rate increased 1.7%, while Hispanic and ...
Racial segregation in Atlanta has known many phases after the freeing of the slaves in 1865: a period of relative integration of businesses and residences; Jim Crow laws and official residential and de facto business segregation after the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906; blockbusting and black residential expansion starting in the 1950s; and gradual integration from the late 1960s onwards.
The George Floyd protests in Atlanta were a series of protests occurring in Atlanta, the capital and largest city of Georgia, United States.The protests were part of the George Floyd protests and, more broadly, the 2020–2021 United States racial unrest, which began shortly after the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.