High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Although slavery was abolished over one hundred years ago, differences in wages among whites and minorities are present today. When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it became illegal for employers to discriminate based on race; however, the wages of whites in the United States still exceed those of all other minorities, except Asians. After the passage of the act, the wage gap for minority groups narrowed, both in absolute difference with white wages and as a percentage of white wages, until the mid-1970s; at this time, progress for many racial minorities slowed, stopped, or reversed. As of 2009, the median weekly wage for African American and Hispanic workers was about 65 percent and 61 percent that of White workers, respectively. Asian workers’ median wage was about 1 percent higher than that of white workers. Overall, minority women’s wages in comparison to those of white women are better than minority men’s wages when compared to...

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