The American Middle-Class Was Only Meant For White People

What Happened When a Black Family Tried to Join In

William Spivey
Cultured
Published in
5 min readSep 20, 2023

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By Sullynyflhi — Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2134084

There wasn't initially much of a middle class in America. There were varying degrees of land-owning rich people and everyone else trying to scrape by. The most commonly attributed force associated with creating the middle class was the creation of government-backed housing programs…

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