https://padlet.com/zialayyan100/2wrsax8mf5cx Zaina Alayyan and Lila Coates en-us 2019-10-22 15:21:35 UTC 2019-10-23 15:07:49 UTC hello@padlet.com lscoates100 https://padlet.com/zialayyan100/2wrsax8mf5cx/wish/400931126 The Great Depression was hard for everyone. When it came around though, it hit black people the hardest. They were losing their jobs left and right but “Blacks faced unemployment of 50 percent or more, compared with about 30 percent for whites.” People of color had a hard time finding jobs.  If they were lucky enough to even get a job  “Black wages were at least 30 percent below those of white workers, who themselves were barely at subsistence level.”(Lee Sustar 2012)  It was a time of poverty. The liberal Roosevelt administration brought no relief in 1933 it “was soon referred to by Blacks as the Negro Removal Act. Although its stated goal was nondiscriminatory hiring and an equal minimum wage for whites and Blacks, NRA public works projects rarely employed Blacks and maintained racist wage differentials when they did.”

]]> 2019-10-22 15:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/zialayyan100/2wrsax8mf5cx/wish/400931126 lscoates100 https://padlet.com/zialayyan100/2wrsax8mf5cx/wish/400932131 2019-10-22 15:25:50 UTC https://padlet.com/zialayyan100/2wrsax8mf5cx/wish/400932131 lscoates100 https://padlet.com/zialayyan100/2wrsax8mf5cx/wish/400933174 2019-10-22 15:27:21 UTC https://padlet.com/zialayyan100/2wrsax8mf5cx/wish/400933174 zialayyan100 https://padlet.com/zialayyan100/2wrsax8mf5cx/wish/400936705 Propaganda was present a lot during the Great Depression, causing racism to be even more prominent.  Although anti-racism groups had appeared, the newspapers and magazines gave people of color a bad name. In the New Yorker, the front page of the magazine depicted a drunk black man on the streets of New York, with a supposedly pure, white man walking by. In a white man's perspective, this would cause them to disrespect and hate any black person.Also, the Great Depression took place in this time period, where many American people were laid off or unemployed. Non-white people, such as African Americans, suffered the most during these times. “ By 1932, approximately half of Black Americans were out of work ( LOC).” White people pushed for African Americans to get laid off, just so that they, White people, wouldn’t. Lynchings also happened a lot, surging from 8 to 23 lynches between a year. 
On the other hand,the president at the time, FDR, tried to stop the discrimination, racism, and hatred by having more Black and White interactions, such as having Black advisors. He did all that to change the point of view the White public had on black people.  FDR also issued an act that allowed everyone, regardless of their ethnicity. " President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802, stating that all persons, regardless of race, creed, color, or national origin, would be allowed to participate fully in the defense of the United States (LOC)."  The propaganda used in this setting caused white people to do the opposite: become familiar with black people and not engage in racist acts.

]]> 2019-10-22 15:32:19 UTC https://padlet.com/zialayyan100/2wrsax8mf5cx/wish/400936705 lscoates100 https://padlet.com/zialayyan100/2wrsax8mf5cx/wish/400937411 2019-10-22 15:33:19 UTC https://padlet.com/zialayyan100/2wrsax8mf5cx/wish/400937411 lscoates100 https://padlet.com/zialayyan100/2wrsax8mf5cx/wish/400942531 Racism has been around for a very long time. In fact, it has been around since the colonial era. This was when white people were given exclusive rights that no other race was. In the 1930’s people were only getting use to becoming more equal to P.O.C. While segregation was definitely a thing slavery was no longer a thing. Inequality was only beginning to disappear. However, during the Great Depression which was the worst economic downfall America had ever experienced. Everyone was suffering from the Economic downturn. Of course though, black people had it harder. There was “The Communist Party taught that a racially-divided society and workforce benefited only the elite, since people of color were employed as strikebreakers” (Pickney 2002)  They tried their best to be anti racist which didn’t work out. “  Initially the Party had advocated a separate state for African Americans, calling for complete self-determination in the “Black Belt” region of the South where African-Americans comprised a near majority of the population.   This proved to be an unpopular goal for both blacks and whites, and later the CP moved away from the notion of black self-determination.” (Pickney 2002) 

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