Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from white staffs, and most blacks are brought in at the lowest levels. Since 1966, the 1,900 largest U.S. banks have more than tripled their share of black employees to an average of 6% . Heading the list: Chase Manhattan, Chemical Bank and Bankers Trust. But almost all the Negroes are clerks or tellers. There are practically no black executives in banks, brokerage houses or accounting firms. Of the 1,366 seats on the New York Stock Exchange, one is held by a Negro. Only four blacks are known to be directors of major companies.* For blacks, there are practically...
...companies, blacks feel that they bump up against an "invisible ceiling," usually at a salary level of about $15,000 a year. Fairly frequently, a black executive is given a big title and small responsibility. He is put in charge of something like "special markets" (meaning Negro markets). If he is in a management line job and reaches a certain level, he is shifted off the executive escalator into a staff position or limited department with scant chance for further promotion...
...economic gap between white and black is still tremendous, but it is narrowing. Negro median family income rose from 54% as much as white income in 1965 to 60% in 1968. The difference is less dramatic if the South, where half the blacks still live, is excluded. In the North Central and Western states, black family income runs 75% to 80% as high as white income...
...number of Negro families existing below the poverty level ($3,553 for a nonfarm family of four) dropped from 48% in 1959 to 29% in 1968. Poverty depends partly on whether there is a man around the house. During the 1959-68 period, the number of nonwhite "poverty" families headed by men declined from 1,452,000 to 697,000, but those headed by women rose from 683,000 to 734,000. The number of black families with incomes of $8,000 or more tripled in the 1950s and nearly tripled again in the 1960s...
...blacks' wages tend to run much lower than whites'. The Negro who completes four years of high school earns less than the white who finishes only eight years of elementary school. The black with four years of college has a median income of $7,754-or less than the $8,154 earned by the white who has only four years of high school. "Underemployment"-work in seasonal or part-time jobs-is more common than for whites. Result: a black family often has to have two or more workers to earn as much as a white family with...