{"id":983867,"date":"2023-02-06T06:46:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T06:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=273346"},"modified":"2023-02-06T06:46:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T06:46:56","slug":"defend-the-postal-service-defend-good-jobs-for-black-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/06\/defend-the-postal-service-defend-good-jobs-for-black-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Defend the Postal Service, Defend Good Jobs for Black Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Postal jobs have long been a road to the middle-class for Black Americans. The Postal Service began employing Black workers shortly after the Civil War and became a major source of good, middle-class jobs for this share of the workforce in the early 20th century. During the 1940s, civil rights advocacy, combined with wartime needs,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/06\/defend-the-postal-service-defend-good-jobs-for-black-workers\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/06\/defend-the-postal-service-defend-good-jobs-for-black-workers\/\">Defend the Postal Service, Defend Good Jobs for Black Workers<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/06\/defend-the-postal-service-defend-good-jobs-for-black-workers\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postal jobs have long been a road to the middle-class for Black Americans. The Postal Service began employing Black workers shortly after the Civil War and became a major source of good, middle-class jobs for this share of the workforce in the early 20&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983868,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983867\/revisions\/983868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}