[Nelsy Equihua]

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?

 

 

The New Deal was to some extent a boon to African Americans but also it was burden in some cases. The CCC offered camps which employed African Americans, and aided them during the depression because they acquired money to send home to the families that were striving to remain alive. Although this was a beneficial aspect of the New Deal towards the African Americans it was a burden because whites were generally preffered over them, when they actually gained the position to support their family the other white men would not want to intermingle with them thus they were segregated, and very often they were discriminated. 

 

They needed money desperately during the Great Depression, and although the New Deal's agencies discriminated the African Americans FDR was improving the oppurtunities for them so they took what was offered to them and worked with the circumstances that were given to them.

 

The New Deal improved and increased the oppurtunities given to African Americans. Corporations like the WPA and CCC aided during the Depression by giving the workers the chance to help their families in the camps set up to work and send money to the people at home.