He got a job as a union steel worker, went in one day, came out 30 years later, and retired with dignity and relative comfort. The opportunities for people to be able to do that, this day and age, they Opportunities [for jobs like my grandfather's] just don't exist the same way. It is wild to think that in the late 1940s, someone could move from. A black man can move from Louisiana to Wisconsin, find opportunity, built a life. (14:55–16:17)
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