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Despite some Afro-Americans having moved into the middle class and affirmative action programs widening the gap between the upwardly mobile and the poor Afro-Americans, the arguments that these divisions need to be seen in terms of class rather than race are incorrect. ... The Civil Rights Movement opened many doors for the Afro-Americans and allowed the select few to move into the middle class.
The growth of the black middle class was simultaneous with the growth of the black urban population. Urban areas, with their expanding opportunities, due to the Civil Rights Movements, enabled a small number of Afro-Americans to ‘upgrade’ into middle class status. The black middle class occurred because of the expansion of institutions created to serve the needs of a growing developed black population. ... Still, as long as the members of this black middle class were disgraced by their racial status, as long as they were denied the social recognition in agreement to their white counterparts; in other words as long as they remained restricted in where they live, work, socialize and were educated, race would continue to be a far more prominent and important issue in shaping their sense of group position than their economic class position. The influence and interests of this class was reflected in the way the race issues were defined and expressed. ... The Affirmative Action programs did play a role in creating the black middle class, but at the same time it created a certain amount of disagreement and hostility. ...
The Affirmative Action programs only provided opportunities for the working class Afro-Americans as they had money and different attitudes to improving there own working environment. ... On the one side of the black community was a small but growing black middle class, whose income and social status nearly equalled that of their white counterparts.
Approximate Word count = 1410
Approximate Pages = 5.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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