https://padlet.com/2408092/txdsargtjluqwvpi What was it like for minorities during this era? en-us 2021-12-09 18:09:14 UTC 2025-12-06 16:19:36 UTC hello@padlet.com 2408092 https://padlet.com/2408092/txdsargtjluqwvpi/wish/1938880978 Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.]]> 2021-12-09 18:18:07 UTC https://padlet.com/2408092/txdsargtjluqwvpi/wish/1938880978 2408092 https://padlet.com/2408092/txdsargtjluqwvpi/wish/1938882379 During the Great Depression, African Americans were the first to get laid off from their jobs, and they suffered from "...an unemployment rate two to three times that of whites." On top of this, African Americans also received way less aid than Whites. Soup kitchens even started to not serve them just because of their skin color. In today's society, things like this would never be allowed to happen- which shows how terrible racism was in the 1930s.

Source: Hollis Lynch. “African American life during the Great Depression and the New Deal" Britannica, www.britannica.com/topic/African-American/The-civil-rights-movement. Accessed 9 December 2021.

]]> 2021-12-09 18:18:53 UTC https://padlet.com/2408092/txdsargtjluqwvpi/wish/1938882379 2408092 https://padlet.com/2408092/txdsargtjluqwvpi/wish/1942956784 Racism continued even after the Great Depression. After WWII (which ended the Great Depression) and during the Great Depression, Whites were prioritized over African Americans and other minorities when companies were looking to give jobs to people. The saying: "Last Hired, First Fired" became popular to show the treatment of African Americans in the workplace. There were also segregated bathrooms and water fountains (shown above). African Americans usually got the worse bathroom or water fountain.

Source: Christopher Klein. “Last Hired, First Fired: How the Great Depression Affected African Americans" History, 18 Apr. 2018, https://www.history.com/news/last-hired-first-fired-how-the-great-depression-affected-african-americans. Accessed 12 December 2021.]]> 2021-12-12 17:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/2408092/txdsargtjluqwvpi/wish/1942956784 2408092 https://padlet.com/2408092/txdsargtjluqwvpi/wish/1942977926 The picture above shows the effects of one of the biggest race riots during this time. In 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma became known as Black Wall Street because it "...was one of the most prosperous African-American communities in the United States." On May 31, 1921, an African American man reportedly raped a white woman. Whites in the area did not wait for the verdict to be decided to set thirty-five blocks of Tulsa up in flames- resulting in the death of 300 people, and 800 injured people. Hate crimes targeted towards minorities (especially African Americans) were very common during this time period.

Source: Kimberly Fain. “The Devastation of Black Wall Street" JSTOR DAILY, 5 Jul. 2017, https://daily.jstor.org/the-devastation-of-black-wall-street/. Accessed 12 December 2021.]]> 2021-12-12 17:24:21 UTC https://padlet.com/2408092/txdsargtjluqwvpi/wish/1942977926 2408092 https://padlet.com/2408092/txdsargtjluqwvpi/wish/1943323339 In the North, racism was usually found around the workplace. Whites took the jobs of many African Americans, and African Americans had way higher rates of unemployment compared to Whites. However, in the South, hate crimes and lynchings were more common due to the South being segregated. For example, "[In the South] Lynchings, which had declined to eight in 1932, surged to 28 in 1933." In the East and Northwest, racism was similar to the North- Whites took the jobs of African Americans, and so on. However, Racism in the Southwest was similar to racism in the South.

Sources:
- “Race Relations in the 1930s and 1940s" Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945/race-relations-in-1930s-and-1940s/. Accessed 12 December 2021.

- “Depression Era: 1930s: Integration" Picture This, http://picturethis.museumca.org/timeline/depression-era-1930s/integration/info. Accessed 12 December 2021.

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