I need online resources for evidence of discrimination during the Great Depression?
Posted by admin on May 23, 2008
I’m doing a class presentation on discrimination against African Americans during the Great Depression. Do you know of any online resources for this? I’ve found a couple but I am having some trouble.
I also wouldn’t mind personal accounts, poems, short stories, music, etc., anything that could relate to this.
Thanks!
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The problems of the Great Depression affected virtually every group of Americans. No group was harder hit than African Americans, however. By 1932, approximately half of black Americans were out of work. In some Northern cities, whites called for blacks to be fired from any jobs as long as there were whites out of work. Racial violence again became more common, especially in the South. Lynchings, which had declined to eight in 1932, surged to 28 in 1933.
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