economic status

Question 1

knowledge

Answer 1

• black people earned on average 55% of the wages of white people, malcolm X believed in black people owning their own shops and services.
• the black panthers wanted full employment for black people.

Question 2

analysis

Answer 2

• this improved economic status as they didn’t need to rely on white employers as much for their income.
• they used their intimidating tactics to push this idea and presidents like JFK were influenced as he wanted to help employ black people into his own field of work.

Question 3

counter analysis

Answer 3

• malcolm x had actually failed to resolve the economic problems faced in the north.

Question 4

evaluation

Answer 4

little was achieved in closing the economic gap, as the kerner commision states “america was moving towards two societies, one white, pne black, seperate and unequal”