The New Deal and African Americans

[Matthew R. Giorgio]

Respond to the following questions acknowledging others' perspectives
as you do so before start of class Friday afternoon:

One of the most-debated questions about the New Deal has been its
relationship to African-Americans. Read the articles (located at
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073513237/student_view0/chapter26/debating_the_past.html)
and make your own argument about the effect of the New Deal on black
Americans.

Was it a boon or a burden to Depression-era blacks?
What did African-Americans of the time think?
How did the New Deal succeed and fail African-American citizens?

[Bobby Dillingham]

The New Deal was to some extent a boon to African Americans as well as a burden. While cultural expression of African Americans gained more prominence, especially in the Works Progress Administration, in which pictures such as the Portrait of a Young Black  Man  by Dox Thrash  were collected in the Library of Congress, the conventional problem of segregation in other New Deal organizations still persisted. One of them, The Civilian Conservation Corps, had integrated camps in its early years but mounting pressure from locals, administrators, and the Army reinstated the "separate but equal" policy and in July 1935 those camps disbanded. To the injustices such as in Civilian Conservation Corps, the NAACP involved itself in protest, as was the case with one black man in which because he countered his white superior, was abused and denied pay, which incited intervention from the NAACP. To benefits, they responded promptly with votes for FDR. In effect, the New Deal was both a success and a failure in supporting African Americans in that while they were not barred from receiving relief payments that were available to poor citizens, their condition in the public organizations of the New Deal was still marred by the divisive factor of segregation.

[Edith Mata]

1.The new deal was a burden as well as a boon to the African Americans because they were able to gain rights such as the CCC and WPA, they were still being discriminated.

2. The African Americans thought about the Depression was that it was outrages on how they were treated in the South. The South were still discriminating against the African American and give them little economic assistants. With them switching to the Democratic party, they felt that the new deal would provided them with economic.

3.The success for the citizens were that they were given opportunity to had wages, and the failure was that they were still segregation

 

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Matthew R. Giorgio <matthew....@gmail.com> wrote:

[Daniel Reyes]

The New Deal was to some extent a boon to African Americans and a
burden. During the Great Depression African Americans were in worse
economic condition as the whites. It took a while for the systems to
give African Americans relief, because as Booby said Many of the New
Deals organizations were filled with segregation.
One of these organizations was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).
The CCC would get whites to work for them instead of blacks and the
people working there would be racist to them. The NRA a organization
of the New Deal was also affected by segregation, the people of the
south kept insisting that the minimum wage be different depending on
race. Nobody could agree if the races should have a different minimum
wage because of the jealous whites and this organization could be
considered a failure because it tried to set a differential wages
based on race. Although the New Deal could be a burden for the African
Americans it can also be a helpful for them. Without many of the New
Deal's relief programs many African Americans would have no jobs and
no way to support there family's. The Federal Emergency Relief Program
(FERA) is one of the programs that help the African American people,
the program helped teachers and African American college students by
giving them scholarships. The PWA Housing Division also helped African
Americans by building them affordable houses. The New Deal was helpful
to the African Americans and a burden. Many of the organizations had
segregation but without these programs the African Americans would
have starved. These organizations also gave the African Americans hope
because it showed that the government does care about them and they do
have representation in the government.

On Mar 21, 11:48 am, "Matthew R. Giorgio"

<matthew.r.gior...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Respond to the following questions acknowledging others' perspectives
> as you do so before start of class Friday afternoon:
>
> One of the most-debated questions about the New Deal has been its

> relationship to African-Americans. Read the articles (located athttp://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073513237/student_view0/chapte...)

[Ruth Morales]

 I believe that the New Deal benefited African Americans to soem extent because reading during the reading, some of the articles specified that the "New Deal" that Roosevelt proposed was the help against racial inequality actions, they could aquire new jobs but, there were several agencies that did not accept them just because they were blacks. I think that it was a boon for them because there was some protection given to them by the New Deal, plus more jobs opened. After seeing some of the images on one of the articles i learned that the African Americans thought that the chains of racism against them should be broken and that they should be free, based from the painting named Cavalcade of the American Negro. It succeeded because there was a protection and new jobs, but it still did not shut down racial inequality against the African Americans.

[Roxanna]

To some extent, the new deal was mostly helpful and beneficial for
African Americans, though it also had hurtful factors. It was the
great depression; one out of every four Americans was unemployed. Not
one of every four white Americans, not one of every four Native
Americans, or immigrants, it was Americans in general, and the any
reform that would result in more jobs was welcomed. The African
Americas were economically worse than whites even before the war, but
the depression put everyone in horrid conditions, and the new deal
provided a way out. The African Americans were very loyal to the
republicans, but they had faith in Roosevelt, faith that conditions
could improve, so they joined together and voted republican. The new
deal allowed them to help and to work for a better life. That is the
history of African Americans, struggling till they reached something
better. The new deal created the WPA and many other organizations
where African Americans could work. In these organizations African
Americans’ proud history was published, they could perform their
music, and even perform their own stories in a theater.  In the CCC
they were able to personally help the nation; they could work and show
their skills. The new deal allowed the African Americans to show their
worth, to prove they could do anything ‘the white man’ could. And as
much as the whites refused to accept them, as much as they whined
about working alongside them, whites were being helped by the African
Americans. Whites were listening to their music, reading their
posters, and living in homes that African Americans saved from fires.
They had to see the African Americans, and eventually, accept. Of
course, the new deal did not make the nation pink and loving, though
African Americans were helping and working many of the same jobs as
whites, they were still heavily segregated against. As my class mates
before me said, in many instances they were unjustly denied their
rights and separated because at the time “separate but equal” was
still all mighty. Roosevelt was not in the position to make laws with
his new deal to help the African Americans in their social situation,
he had to hold the north and south together, but his new deal still
offered many opportunities to improve one’s situation, and that was a
great help to all citizens of the U.S.

On Mar 22, 10:27 pm, Ruth Morales <ruthmorale...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>  I believe that the New Deal benefited African Americans to soem extent because reading during the reading, some of the articles specified that the "New Deal" that Roosevelt proposed was the help against racial inequality actions, they could aquire new jobs but, there were several agencies that did not accept them just because they were blacks. I think that it was a boon for them because there was some protection given to them by the New Deal, plus more jobs opened. After seeing some of the images on one of the articles i learned that the African Americans thought that the chains of racism against them should be broken and that they should be free, based from the painting named Cavalcade of the American Negro. It succeeded because there was a protection and new jobs, but it still did not shut down racial inequality against the African Americans.
>

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> To: AP US History - HSA-Dallas <HSA_...@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 1:48 PM
> Subject: The New Deal and African Americans
>
> Respond to the following questions acknowledging others' perspectives
> as you do so before start of class Friday afternoon:
>
> One of the most-debated questions about the New Deal has been its

> relationship to African-Americans. Read the articles (located athttp://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073513237/student_view0/chapte...)

[Nazeera Siddiqui]

The New deal was fortunate for African American to some extent, but it proved to be a burden as well. Prior to the New Deal, African Americans were devoted to the Republican Party, the party of Abraham Lincoln. However, most shifted their support. Part of the reason was FDR’s spending programs gave them some relief from the Depression. Although, civil rights were not really promoted in the New Deal programs since discrimination existed in most of the New Deal programs. Roosevelt had to do this, though. In order to pass the New Deal legislation, Roosevelt needed the support of southern Democrats. The National Recovery Administration offered white people jobs first, separated them, and lowered the pay for blacks. The Federal Housing Authority refused to guarantee mortgages for black people who wanted to buy in white neighborhoods. When the Civilian Conservation Corps began, little effort was made to recruit blacks. Black CCC enrollees faced hostile local communities and had to live with the racist attitudes of supervisors, and found limited opportunities for leadership positions within the CCC. Although there were bad aspects, the CCC still provided an opportunity for young men to earn money and support their families. The WPA was also beneficial as blacks were able to find new employment opportunities

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Matthew R. Giorgio <matthew....@gmail.com> wrote: