racism in the 1930s by Harrison Pham (Student FVHS) https://padlet.com/hhpham104/80yxp3sle38h made by: Harrison Pham en-us 2019-10-22 19:58:25 UTC 2019-10-23 19:27:43 UTC hello@padlet.com How were African Americans affected by the Great Depression? hhpham104 https://padlet.com/hhpham104/80yxp3sle38h/wish/401472888 The Great Depression is said to be the "worst economic downtown in the industrialized world", according to the History Channel. Though the Great Depression affected everyone,  African Americans were hit the hardest. During these times, they were still subjects to racism and discrimination. The African Americans would have to face the hardships of their race for decades.
Before the Great Depression, African Americans had a hard time finding a job because the color of their skin. Once the Great Depression started, their employers would instantly fire them or give them little to no pay; they were said to be "last hired, first fired". According to the Library of Congress, the African American unemployment rate climbed up to about 50 percent during 1932. ]]> 2019-10-23 14:25:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hhpham104/80yxp3sle38h/wish/401472888 How were they segregated from the rest of the population? hhpham104 https://padlet.com/hhpham104/80yxp3sle38h/wish/401491543 Back in the 1930s, African Americans were segregated from the rest of the population. Though they were not physically separated from the Americans, they had less rights than American citizens. Like women, the African Americans could not vote or own land; they had little to no rights according to the Library of Congress.
African Americans were discriminated in many ways. There were also laws to separate the races called the Jim Crow Laws. There were no slaves, but they were treated as them.   

]]> 2019-10-23 14:47:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hhpham104/80yxp3sle38h/wish/401491543 What were some of the things that the white people do to African Americans during the Great Depression? hhpham104 https://padlet.com/hhpham104/80yxp3sle38h/wish/401637760 Many injustices happened to the African Americans during the Great Depression. Many Americans would hang the African Americans to make more space for the unemployed whites. If the African Americans were not hanged, they were paid a lot less than the whites. 

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