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Just a quick question since most of my points have already been made here. Were there ever cases of black workers attempting to strike for more rights, or were they too scared to do so? -Cash Nelson | Just a quick question since most of my points have already been made here. Were there ever cases of black workers attempting to strike for more rights, or were they too scared to do so? -Cash Nelson | ||
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| + | As Cash has stated most of the points on this document have been made. However, I'd like to respond to Paul's assertion that "Beaten in a Baltimore Shipyard showed me that blacks were more skillful than the whites." The color of an individual's skin had nothing to do with the skills they could possibly attain (I am not addressing privalage or opportunity here, just raw potential). As the article stated, black and white workers labored side by side daily doing the same work for a good amount of time before the white strike took place. It just so happened that the Douglas came in during the beginning of a rush order which prevented him from being taught an individual skill, and instead being assigned as a runner. Also, the article stated that Douglas was a runner along with a group of young white men, the ones who eventually attacked him, thus it is not a job reserved just for a particular race. -Brian Brown | ||
== Judith McGaw, Gender and Papermaking == | == Judith McGaw, Gender and Papermaking == | ||
