1.0 link 154181 <![CDATA[Black Auto Workers Hit Particularly Hard By Recession]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/30/black-auto-workers-hit-pa_n_154181.html DETROIT -- Since millions of African-Americans began leaving Southern farms for Northern factories nearly a century ago in what is still known as the Great Migration, the destinies of many of them have been entwined with the auto industry's.

The car companies were hardly multiracial utopias, but they, especially Ford, employed blacks when many industries would not. Through the decades, the automakers and their higher wage scales provided a route to the middle class for many blacks, especially those with limited...

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