![]() ![]() ![]() Social Security, from which the majority of blacks were excluded until well into the 1950s, quickly became the country’s most important social legislation. Taken together, the effects of these public laws were devastating. The damage to racial equity caused by each program was immense. To the contrary, individually and collectively they organized a revolution in the role of government that remade the country’s social structure in dramatic, positive ways. But most blacks were left out. None of these was a marginal or secondary program. The Army was a great engine of skill training and mobility during the Second World War. The country passed new labor laws that promoted unions and protected people as they worked. The GI Bill was the largest targeted fully national program of support in American history. By the end of the 1940s its original provisions had been impressively improved. Outstanding book summary in Chapter 6: “Social security began to pay old age pensions in 1939. ![]()
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