on veteran's benefits and public works. This is all true for some people, but many groups were excluded from this economic prosperity such as African Americans and other minority groups. "Almost 50 percent of married-couple African-American families were impoverished – a figure far higher than today" (Coontz 44). Coontz makes it clear to the reader that this era was not considered "the golden age" for all the people that lived during this time. Not only African Americans, b
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