Wealth
What percentage was the tax on the enslaved person's labor.
What is 100%?
When shown identical resumes, those with white sounding names received this percentage more of callbacks than Black sounding names.
What is 50%?
This mortgage loan practice was originally started by the Federal government in the 1930's. It ranked high demand white areas as "A" and areas where black people lived "D". D's were ineligible for FHA loans.
What is redlining?
In 1900, this was the ratio of black teachers to school aged children.
What is 1:1,000?
This is the cost of being black in America.
What is the black tax.
The value of enslaved labor is worth an average of this amount by today's standards.
What is $50 trillion.
Resumes with Black sounding names needed this number of years additional work experience for the same likelihood of getting a call back as a resume with a white sounding name.
What is 8?
This was an unfair practice used to sell Blacks homes in which the owner kept the deed and the purchaser acquired no equity.
What is contract selling?
In 1917 there were this number of public high schools in America for Black students in the South.
What is 64?
These are two things promised but never give to African Americans after slavery.
What is forty acres and a mule?
America's 4 millions slaves accounted for this percentage of all of US wealth.
What is 16 - 20%?
White job applicants with a felony conviction got more callbacks than this.
What are black applicants with no criminal record?
The practice of white people moving out of a neighborhood as more Black people moved in.
What is white flight?
In the South for every $1 spent to educate a Black student, this amount was invested to educate a white student.
What is between $5 and $8?
The system of laws and customs used to impose a complete tax on a sharecropper's labor.
What is Jim Crow?
By today's standards, America's 4 million slaves would accounts to this many trillions of dollars.
What is $28.5 trillion?
The Black Tax could cost a black lawyer this figure in earnings over the course of her/his career.
What is $11 million?
This was used to prohibit the sale of homes to Black people in certain neighborhoods.
What are restrictive covenants?
White students received this percentage more of years in education than Blacks by age 25.
What is 50%?
This was used to give 246 million acres of land to 1.5 million white Americans and immigrants.
What is the Homestead Act?
The Black Tax could cost black male doctors this figure in earnings over a 30 year period.
What is $2.9 million.
This practice is used to push Black people into less favorable financial products like loans.
What is predatory lending?
In 1954 this number of Black teachers were responsible for teaching 2 million black students.
What is 82,000?
This is referred to as slavery by another name.
What is convict leasing?