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 Estes also writes about the Memphis Sanitation Worker Strike and how that reflected ideas of black masculinbity and humanity. This strike wasn't inherently about wages and working conditions, but more about dignity and manhood. Black workers were treated as disposable labor and were denied all respect as men. This linked to ideas of perpetual boyhood. They weren't arguing that they were men as in not women, instead they were men as in not boys. They were using masculinity as the right to be recognized as fully human and fully man. Martin Luther King jr. was also an important part of this strike. He argued that equality wa more than just the absense of legal segregation, but asz economic justice and recognition of dignity. -Caroline Cochran
+Estes uses the Moynihan report as a way to show how the issues surrounding the lack of upward class mobility for African American men was due to the continuous removal or refusal to make support systems for these men to use. This report was used by President Johnson to make light of the situation at hand and to create more support or structure to the African American families. And for these men to participate in the American ideals for masculinity and patriarchy. (Sage Milton)
+The ideals for American masculinity viewed men as the bread-winners of their houses, so having women being the main providers for the family removes the connection to masculinity from the African American men if they are unemployed. In Moynihan's report he discussed how the lack of a father was creating less men when only the mothers' are raising the sons and it is a failure of the family system as a whole. (Sage Milton)