south 1945 - poor sharecroppers and lack of education and segregation meant there was little chance of getting a good job, and lot of poverty existed. however segregation did help black owned business.
south and north 1968 - gwrowth of the black middle class by late 1960's, and under johnson black unemplyment decreased by 34%, but unemployment rates still remained higher than whites with blacks earning on average 61% of the average white persons earnings.
north 1945 - oppurtunities were better than in the south and lots of blacks migrated to the north after WW2 but blacks were still paid less.
north 1968 - de facto segregation and poor education and poverty meant that economic equality was not the case in the north.
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