Before Uncle Sam made the black father unnecessary, they’d come a long way; unfortunately their trek northward to work in the factories coincided with the shuttering of those factories as jobs left our shores, and while the original immigrants did well the next generation dealt with the urban blight (and lost a chance at a middle class lifestyle).
I’d imagine the same thing would have happened if the Irish came here and the transcontinental railroad was already built and the Civil War was already over.
Bravo! A real historian. Many don’t know about the government’s role in Black society. A very negative, destructive role, but, it did keep them down on the “plantation.” Another failed social experiment — at great destruction!
And, not many know about the great northern migration after the civil war, with the resultant urban blight.
Nothing important about our history is taught anymore!