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Library of Congress resources for teachers. Presentations and Activities ... Presentations and activities offer media-rich historical context or interactive opportunities for exploration for teachers and students alike. ... Note: The Library of Congress teacher resources have a new home. Learn more >>
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memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/depwwii/race/rac...
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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.
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Unemployment among minorities was high even before the Great Depression; it got worse in the 1930s. In some areas, black unemployment reached ... Labor unions helped bring blacks and whites together. ... Birdie Farr and Thurman Hoskins had very different experiences with race relations in Nebraska during the 1930s and 1940s.
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www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/life_31.html
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Picture of a black family standing together during the Great Depression. ... Photograph of a Family of a Coal Miner During the Great Depression...
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history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blygd4.htm
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Eugene Kinckle Jones, that blacks would not be overlooked in the administration's vast reconstruction plans ... for employment and relief." It seems that even Secretary Perkins could not have predicted the outcome of the events in ... It was during the many social outings that these women were able to strategize.
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By 1932, Harlem had an unemployment rate of 50 percent and property owned or managed by blacks fell from 30 percent to 5 percent in 1935. Farmers in the Midwest were doubly hit by economic downturns and the Dust Bowl. ... The breadth and depth of the crisis made it the Great Depression.
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www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/great-depression.htm
www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/great-depression.htm
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Most blacks had joined "Roosevelt's bandwagon by 1936, Woodson refused to join them, contending, ... The Civil Works Administration was established by the New Deal during the Great Depression to create jobs for millions of the unemployed. The jobs were to be merely temporary, for the duration of the hard winter.
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www.thefreelibrary.com/Eugene+Kinckle+Jones+and+the+str...
www.thefreelibrary.com/Eugene+Kinckle+Jones+and+the+struggle+to+keep+the+National+Urban+...-a0141856692
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However, in Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression, author Robin Kelley shows how southerners, particularly blacks, were drawn to this movement, especially in the years leading up to the Second World War.
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chnm.gmu.edu/courses/schrag/wiki/index.php?title=Hammer...
chnm.gmu.edu/courses/schrag/wiki/index.php?title=Hammer_and_Hoe:_Alabama_Communists_During_the_Great_Depression
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The United States during the Great Depression ... The Great Depression did not affect everyone the same way. Many rich people felt no impact at all, and were oblivious to the suffering of others. Up to forty percent of the country never faced real hardship during those...
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www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snprelief1.htm
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