FDR signed the law that broke the Black Worker's leverage. In 1942, Black men were finally leaving the cotton fields to work in factories (The Great Migration). This was a crisis for white plantation owners. For the first time, they had to compete for labor. In a free market, they would have had to raise wages to keep Black workers. Instead, they asked FDR for a bailout. He gave them the Bracero Program. It imported 4.6 million Mexican workers to keep wages artificially low. It wasn't just a
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FDR signed the law that broke the Black Worker's leverage. In 1942, Black men were finally leaving the cotton fields to work in factories (The Great Migration). This was a crisis for white plantation owners. For the first time, they had to compete for labor. In a free market, they would have had to raise wages to keep Black workers. Instead, they asked FDR for a bailout. He gave them the Bracero Program. It imported 4.6 million Mexican workers to keep wages artificially low. It wasn't just a
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