Black Americans Worry Postal Changes Could Disrupt History Of Secure Jobs

August 31, 2020
Retired postal worker Glenda Morris protests postal cutbacks on Aug. 25, 2020, in New York. African Americans make up 27 percent of the Postal Service, about twice their share of the overall workforce.

Starting with a special law after the Civil War, the U.S. Postal Service has provided a path to the middle class for generations of African Americans. Some worry a privatization push threatens that.

(Image credit: Mark Lennihan/AP)



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