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A crowd of three thousand, mostly young Black people, rush the doors at the Atlanta Civic Center Auditorium to apply for 225 new public-service jobs. The incident spotlighted the Black unemployment challenge of the current recession.
1975 (Jan 10)
A crowd of three thousand people, most of them young Black Americans, crashed into the glass doors at the Atlanta Civic Center Auditorium in their rush to apply for 225 new public-service jobs. The job seekers had gathered in the pre-dawn hours in search of employment. In December 1974, the unemployment rate in Atlanta had been 7.5 percent, but the jobless rate among Blacks was 9.2 percent. The spectacle at the Civic Center Auditorium pointed out again the growing economic desperation of Blacks during the current recession.
References:
- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.