New Deal Dbq

For John, everyday living like a depression that he had to adjust daily. His livelihood began to spiral downward following the stock market crash, which was the beginning of the Great Depression of 1929. People were feeling what John had felt for years as a person struggling to survive. Black workers in the city begin to experience increasing difficulties in keeping their current jobs. Unemployment Blacks in the city reached well over 50 percent, more than twice the rate of whites. John was laid off from his porter job due to increased threats from desperate unemployed whites. Some charities refused to provide food to needy Blacks. To make matters worse, violence rose against blacks during the 1930s, carried out by whites competing for the

Based on the assumption that the power of the federal government was needed to get the country out of the depression, the first days of Roosevelt's administration saw the passage of banking reform laws, emergency relief programs, work relief programs, and agricultural programs. Following his inauguration, Roosevelt's attitude toward Blacks displayed little change. He showed little interest in challenging even the most obvious manifestations of racial injustice in the proliferation of New Deal agencies. The National Recovery Administration (NRA), Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), to name only a few, all failed to protect blacks against discriminatory employers, agency officials, and local whites. Many of the programs did not accept

Although Blacks in the south did not vote due Jim Crow laws and intimidation, they began to show favoritism toward the Democratic party. Roosevelt entertained African-American visitors at the White House and was known to have a number of Black advisors. Many Blacks were excited by the energy with which Roosevelt began tackling the problems of the Depression. This gave Blacks a sense of belonging they had never experienced before. Still, discrimination occurred in New Deal housing and employment projects, and the President did not support all of the legislation favored by Black organizations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This was the results of his Republican’s party political platform was still