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African Americans wanted to keep their sense of community and identity even through tough times

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This quote is also relevant today. We feel like people want to be identified as american but also stay connected to their roots/specific cultures. It can be hard to have a singular identity because American means something different to everyone

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They were facing an identity crisis, because they wanted to be "African-American" and be assimilated into America while being rooted in African culture, but were labeled as "other" and only as "African" based on their skin color.

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There is a sense that you have to be white to succeed in the United States and it's difficult to keep your culture because of this growing systematic marginalization

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A large amount of the Black population lost their job because of tough times. They were typically fired first so that white people could take their jobs.

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While living in Harlem African Americans found housing but rent went up and the housing conditions went down.

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They were already receiving lower pay, but they became the first people to be laid of from the labor force. Were considered more easily "disposable."

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They wanted to stay in their cultural communities but were not be able to because they were struggling to make money and pay rent

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We love Genna. A lot of people lost their jobs.

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They were willing to work jobs white men thought they were better than

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The agriculture system wouldn't work if the people who were working in the fields were paid more.

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We're running into the same problem now today.

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The Mexican Americans had a strike because of low wages, but white workers could have the opportunities to find other jobs

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Mexican workers did not have a choice to work for a higher pay rate, and they were doing whatever work they could find. Also, the economy was built from the labor of the many Mexican laborers (would not have been as successful without these workers).

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Mexican students weren't allowed to go to school past 7th grade because it was considered unnecessary

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Students were not allowed to attend certain schools. Discriminated based on race on what schools they could attend.

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School systems discouraged schooling after a certain point and held them back or told them to stop coming to school

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It didn't provide them the same opportunities as their white counterparts because schools discriminated against race