Even were the President and Congress to implement every recommendation in this report immediately. it would not be enough to lift black and other minority Americans to anything approximating economic equality during the lifetime of anyone now alive. For historically. black. brown. and red Americans arethe only Americans who have never benefited from preferential economic treatment by the Federal Government. Enslaved blacks. embattled Indians and economically enshackled Chicanos were in poor position to capitalize on the Preemption and Homestead Acts. so that the vast majority of the 1.6 million families who acquired Western homesteads were white Americans. many of them recent immigrants. Having been excluded as landholders. minority Americans were in poor position to benefit from the expansion of agricultural credit in the first third of this century. Even less were they in position to take advantage of what DuBois has described as "the widespread custom" during the industrial revolution of "public investment for private profit." When Federal.
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