Black History From the Year You Were Born
By Niesha Davis, Stacker News
On 2/9/21 at 6:30 PM EST
Each February, Black History Month is dedicated to celebrating the achievements, and reflecting on the experiences, of African Americans. What began as a week in 1926 has blossomed into 28 days of remembrance and lessons on the contributions of Black Americans.
Many Black Americans come from a lineage of captured and enslaved people who were forcibly brought to the U.S. to build the culture and infrastructure of a place in which they never asked to live. Forced immigration and centuries of cultural genocide have driven Black Americans to literally and figuratively rebuild a culture from the ground up. In the face of historical oppression and inequality slavery, Jim Crow laws, and the police violence that spawned the #BlackLivesMatter movement African Americans have continuously fought for their rights and spawned countless milestones, achievements, and freedoms. While being forced
The 50 Most Common Jobs Women Held 100 Years Ago
By Ellen Dewitt, Stacker News
On 1/23/21 at 9:00 AM EST
The past century has been a remarkable one for women in the workplace. Today their presence is generally unquestioned and, at least before the pandemic, women outnumbered men. As of December 2020, women held 50.04 percent of the jobs in the United States, not counting farm workers and the self-employed, according to the government s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In the 1920s, more than 8 million women, or 1 in 5, were earning salaries, typically as clerks, waitresses, teachers, and telephone operators, laboring amid attitudes that women should not work outside the home if their husbands were employed and that working women were taking jobs away from men who needed them more. Plenty of high-paying, powerful jobs were kept out of women s reach, and women often were expected to quit their paying jobs if they got married.