Depth Study - African Americans in the Gilded Age (gains)

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  • Created on: 20-05-24 09:50
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  • Gains in progress for AA civil rights
    • only some gains during period
    • literacy improvement
      • 1865 - 1 in 20 AA could read
        • 1895 - rose to 1 in 2 AA being able to read
    • rise in AA religious organisations
      • also rise in banks, societies and companies run by AA
    • by 1900 - some 40,000 AA professionals
      • that included doctors, lawyers, teachers, artists
        • however, this was out of a population of 8mil
  • literacy improvement
    • 1865 - 1 in 20 AA could read
      • 1895 - rose to 1 in 2 AA being able to read

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