Black Power helped create a new African-American cultural identity which resonated throughout American culture. Segment 3: “The Rise of the Black Middle Class” New political gains like ...

For black Americans traveling by car in the era of ... the listings offer a record of the “rise of the black middle class, and in particular, of the entrepreneurship of black women.” ...

African Americans live both enslaved and free within ... The large opposition is a rising American middle-class that wants to cast what it is to be American in a middle-class image.

The Black American middle class was largely built on federal government jobs at the U.S. Postal Service and other agencies. Black people account for 19% of the federal workforce, 29% of workers at ...