Ethnic Minorities 1981-1992
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- TO WHAT EXTENT DID THE POSITION OF ETHNIC MINORITIES CHANGE 1981-1992
- POLITICS
- Harold Washington Mayor of Chicago 1983
- city dominated by Irish-American politicians
- offered moderate social policies crossing racial divide
- high influence on black Americans
- 80% turnout for blacks same as white middle class suburban
- Jesse Jackson ran for democratic party nomination 1984 and 1988
- 84 campaign unpopular
- 21% votes in primary election, 8% in delegate votes
- more organised 1988 campaign
- winning number of primary elections
- 84 campaign unpopular
- Andrew Young Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia 1981
- significant due to racist past, e.g. Jim Crow laws
- success was not celebrated by all, only specific individuals
- Harold Washington Mayor of Chicago 1983
- BUSSINESS
- civil equality gained in 1950's and 1960's began to bear fruit in 1980's
- 1992: black owned businesses rose to 621,000
- compared to a few hundred thousand in 1960's
- successful individuals e.g. Oprah Winfrey
- own chat show in 1986
- distributed in 140 countries
- listed in Forbes Magazine in 2003 as the first female black billionaire
- own chat show in 1986
- POPULAR CULTURE
- 1989 Denzel Washington won best supporting actor for role in Glory
- 1992 Spike Lee directed and stared in Malcolm X
- Michael Jackson excelled in music
- 1982 Thriller was in charts for 80 weeks
- including 37 weeks as number 1
- video won 12 Grammy awards
- 1982 Thriller was in charts for 80 weeks
- many blacks became household names
- SPORT
- 1998 excelled in NFL, NBA and major league baseball
- 80% of NFL
- 60% of NBA
- Earvin 'Magic' Johnson of La Lakers was star player
- 25% of major league baseball
- Randell Cunningham became quarter back of Philadelphia eagles
- position previously whites only
- Carl Lewis won 4 olympic gold medals in 1984 LA Olympics (100m)
- La Olympics 1984
- black athletes won 40/49 US field and track medals
- 10/11 boxing medals
- 1998 excelled in NFL, NBA and major league baseball
- RACIAL TENSIONS
- June 1982 Chinese American clubbed to death
- by two white car workers in Detroit
- mistook him for Japanese and blamed him for lay offs in car industries
- by two white car workers in Detroit
- 1991 Rodney King brutally beaten to death by South central LA police
- 1992 police acquitted sparking major riots
- 54 killed and 2,400 injured
- 17,000 arrested (half were Hispanic Americans)
- 10,000 businesses destroyed many owed by Koreans
- June 1982 Chinese American clubbed to death
- POLITICS
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