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During the 1970s,the Gap Between the Incomes of the Upper

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During the 1970s,the gap between the incomes of the upper 20 percent of African Americans and their white counterparts narrowed,but the gap between black men and women at the bottom of the economic ladder and their white counterparts expanded.


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