The Chicago Project

The pictures are of a black man pulling himself out of a pit of racial inequality, and he is very happy and relieved to be out of that pit.  What he realizes in the second frame is that he crawled out of the first pit into a much larger pit.  This pit is economic inequality. 

I believe that some of the reasons there were major economic inequalities are included in the following.....

1. In Hunters Point, San Francisco in the year 1958, Willie Mays, baseball's greatest center fielder and star of the San Francisco Giants, could not rent the house of his choice in Forest Hill until Mayor Christopher publicly invited Willie to stay as his guest until it was resolved.

2. On September 27, 1966 a riot broke out in San Francisco's Hunters Point, a black neighborhood, when a white police officer shot and killed a sixteen-year-old black as he fled the scene of a stolen car.  For two hours after the shooting, a large, angry crowd milled about the site along Navy Road.  The police, meanwhile, were hurrying black leaders to the scene.

3. In July 1965, Lester Long, aged 22, was shot and killed by police after a "routine" traffic stop. 

4. A few weeks after Lester Long was murdered, Bernard Rich, a 26-year old African-American male, died in police custody under mysterious circumstances while locked in his jail cell.

5. On Christmas eve that same year, Walter Mathis, aged 17, was fatally wounded by an "accidental" weapons discharge while being searched for illegal contraband.

I believe that number 1 is because there was still hatred between whites and blacks of the general public, and blacks were still being sold "specific" housing if any at all by white Realtors.  Numbers two, three, four, and five all had to do with police brutality.  Police brutality was one of the biggest reasons for Economic Inequality.  Also, all five of these examples occurred in just a couple of cities, so imagine how much worse it got throughout the nation.