JUNE 5, 2017
Racism in the 30s
HENRY BAKER BLOCK D
The map able shows places where there is high amounts of racism. As you can see, the south especially Louisiana is almost all red. I also saw and read about racism in my book “The Strength of Saints.”
RACISM IN THE 30S Civil rights in the 30s was an important part of American history because
In the 1930s, the south was most affected by racism and thus the great depression, because people didn’t want to work with people of a different skin tone. !1
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it worsened up the great depression, because white people didn’t want to work with people of a different skin tone, it led to the main civil rights movement by creating tension, and led to the Jim Crow laws and segregation. The early civil rights movement worsened the great depression because it forced people to work next to people of a different skin color, which they didn’t like. They didn’t like this because there was a large amount of racial tension. Because of this and there being a few amount of jobs, many white and black families went poor because they didn’t have any work. Black people were also killed for their job, as this article says “In fact, the Encyclopedia of the Great Depression,published by U.S. History in Context, elaborates on an instance in which white unionized workers along with railroad brotherhoods “intimidated, attacked and murdered [Black] firemen in order to take their jobs.” This made the unemployment rate for African Americans go up. When the white people killed the black workers, they took the “negro” job. While it was less desired, everyone wanted jobs, so they would work in terrible conditions. In the Strength of Saints, a boy shoved a black teens fingers into the cannery machine, just because he didn’t want a black man to sweat on him.
How did the great depression get worse over time?
Racial Tension It also created a lot of racial tension because of the fact that there was nothing to separate racist white supremacists from the black men in working conditions. This created tension because white people didn’t think that they should have a job that is the same as black persons. This made them angry, and so some acted on this and lynched african americans. Lynching is the same as hanging. This combined with the KKK (Klu Klux Klan) rising, a white supremacist group, tensions rose.
The great depression got worse in the 30s, because the stock prices were so high.
White supremacy With white supremacists not wanting to work with black people, propelling the great depression, and racial tension growing, the government had to do something. Later on, in the 50s, most of this came to an end because of the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws made segregation legal, and mandatory. “The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the !2
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American South for three quarters of a century beginning in the 1890s. The laws affected almost every aspect of daily life, mandating segregation of schools, parks, libraries, drinking fountains, restrooms, buses, trains, and restaurants. "Whites Only" and "Colored" signs were constant reminders of the enforced racial order.� People thought that those were ok for a little bit, but then they realized that white people were getting better things. It took till the sixties for black and white people to get equal things. Because of all of this, the Civil rights in the 30s was an important part of American history because it impacted the great depression, because white people didn’t want to work with people of a different skin color, it led to the main civil rights movement by creating tension, and led to the Jim Crow laws and segregation.
Works Cited "American Experience." PBS. Public Broadcasting Service, n.d. Web. 05 June 2017. Olivia. "8 Ways That Racism Made the Great Depression Worse for Black People." Atlanta Black Star. N.p., 12 May 2015. Web. 05 June 2017.
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