[AlexTWithBeard]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd say pretty much all the minorities have always been a part of the workforce.

[joshe]

Women were most of the increase, but minorities increased their participation too.

You can see the tail end (looks like they didn't survey it until 1980) of it here: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2002/05/art2full.pdf Table 4, look at Black participation rates from 1990 to 2015.

For intuition think of extended families living together, being incarcerated, and being the last hired and the first fired (so out of work longer).

[AlexTWithBeard]

Thank you.

Exactly the answer I was looking for!

[FiveSquared]

Jim Crow laws, blackballing, and redlining. You ant allowed to work in certain jobs, if you speak out (see Kapernick), no job for you! And you can’t even live within reasonable distance of work!