https://padlet.com/dmboyack100/e34s505e334e David Boyack and Matthew Solorzano en-us 2019-10-22 20:01:02 UTC 2025-12-24 04:56:11 UTC hello@padlet.com dmboyack100 https://padlet.com/dmboyack100/e34s505e334e/wish/401127945 Reasons for racism were simple, cruel, and selfish. First of all, most racism in the 30's of America were by whites directed towards blacks. "The Great Depression of the 1930s was catastrophic for all workers. But as usual, Blacks suffered worse, pushed out of unskilled jobs previously scorned by whites before the depression" (Sustar 2012). Whites had truly convinced themselves and their children that were superior by some higher power than African-Americans. This thought process made them believe they had the right  to use African-Americans as a financial marketing system and free-labor in order to make things more convenient for the white man.
A lot was passed on from generations before as they taught their kids that they way they treated African-Americans was how it was supposed to be. In other words the kids followed by example. This led to a continuation of racism as many believed that it was just how things were. 

]]> 2019-10-22 20:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dmboyack100/e34s505e334e/wish/401127945 mrsolorzano100 https://padlet.com/dmboyack100/e34s505e334e/wish/401207534 African Americans were oppressed by racist white people even when they were freed from slavery. Despite the Civil War being many decades ago, many people discriminated against african americans. Many laws were put in place make segregation against African Americans legal. So while African Americans had been freed from slavery, hardly anything changed. These laws were very strict in the South where the southern government immediately found "a legal way to put black citizens into indentured servitude, to take voting rights away, to control where they lived and how they traveled and to seize children for labor purposes."(History.com  editors 2018) These laws were most commonly called the Jim Crow laws, named after a lyric insulting African Americans. 
Even with very unfair laws limiting the abilities of African Americans, some groups of people decided to go farther than the law. This group would vandalize schools with african-americans in them, they would attack African Americans at night, but some murdered and tortured others. This horrible group was known as the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan spread from generation to generation "terrorizing black communities and seeping through white southern culture"(History.com editors 2018). These and many more actions were taken to discriminate against African Americans. Many of the Jim Crow laws were spread to larger cities through government members involved in the KKK affairs. Despite being freed, African Americans still suffered through lots of pain and discrimination.]]> 2019-10-23 00:34:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dmboyack100/e34s505e334e/wish/401207534 mrsolorzano100 https://padlet.com/dmboyack100/e34s505e334e/wish/401231212 The Great Depression came at a very unfortunate time for African Americans. They had recently been allowed to work even though they were generally very low paying jobs that didn't require any skills. When the Great Depression hit, many African Americans and Whites were put out of work. Primarily African Americans were put out of their work because their jobs "were filled by whites in need of employment" (Klein 2018). The unemployment rate reached fifty percent for African Americans during the great depression. 
The effect was way worse in the South reaching up to seventy percent of African Americans being unemployed. This led to the Great Migration. The Great Migration was when the majority of African Americans migrated from the South to more urban Northern and Western cities. The period of the Great Depression help spark the movement for Civil Rights. Many of the African Americans who migrated voted for Franklin Roosevelt in hopes of a better future. Roosevelt helped provide a better economic structure for African Americans but did little to change the Jim Crow Laws and others that restricted African Americans.]]> 2019-10-23 01:47:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dmboyack100/e34s505e334e/wish/401231212 mrsolorzano100 https://padlet.com/dmboyack100/e34s505e334e/wish/401247281 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UEhGheFy4PJBQ15H2zgF_hgXyHQivRt9_qwyngzKpN4/edit?usp=sharing]]> 2019-10-23 02:51:58 UTC https://padlet.com/dmboyack100/e34s505e334e/wish/401247281