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Civil Rights for African-Americans during the Great Depression

Civil Rights for African-Americans during the Great Depression. A Dream Deferred by: Langston Hughes. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run?

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Civil Rights for African-Americans during the Great Depression

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  1. Civil Rights for African-Americans during the Great Depression

  2. A Dream Deferred by: Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? From: http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/langston_hughes/poems/16947

  3. The Great Depression • A worldwide economic downturn starting in 1929 and ending during the early 1940s • Started in 1929 with the October 29, 1929, Stock Market crash known as Black Tuesday.

  4. General Effects • Construction halted • Crop prices fell by 40 to 60 percent • 13 million people became unemployed • About 5000 banks went out of business • 50% of the children did not have adequate food, shelter, clothing, or medical care • Dust was everywhere: lungs, food, drinks, houses, furniture, bodies. • The New Deal

  5. Hoover Soup • Some people would go into restaurants and pretend they were going to order when the waitress went back into the kitchen they would poor all the stuff on the table like ketchup, salt, pepper, etc into their water. • They would drink it down before the waitress came back and then they would tell her that they changed their minds and they didn't see anything on the menu they wanted. This drink mixture was called "Hoover soup."

  6. Effects on African Americans • “Last hired, first fired." • African Americans were hit hardest during the depression. Companies laid off African Americans before others. • Segregation prevented many from finding options for housing. • Racial tensions grew as economic tensions mounted, lynching's in the south saw a huge resurgence. • Black women especially found it easier to obtain work than Black men.

  7. Man & HorseResettlement Administration; Rural Rehabilitation; "Alvin Sharpe"; Iredell Co., N.C.

  8. SquatterFarm Security Administration: Arkansas squatter for three years in California near Bakersfield, California. Photo by D. Lange. (Circa 1935)

  9. NYC Bank RunCrowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression. The Bank opened in 1917 and went out of business on June 30, 1931.

  10. Dust Storm"One of South Dakota's Black Blizzards, 1934"

  11. Foreclosure

  12. The Mayberry FamilyResettlement Administration; Rural Rehabilitation; "Dave Mayberry"; Iredell Co., N.C. (Circa November 1933)

  13. Christmas DinnerFarm Security Administration: Christmas dinner in the home of Earl Pauley near Smithland, Iowa. (Circa 1935)

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