Tahniyah Kenney - African Americans and the New Deal.pdf -...

African Americans and the New Deal
Using Evidence
Objective Did the New Deal provide relief and recovery for all Americans? Why or why not?
Contextualization : Watch the first minute of this video clip from the Smithsonian Channel.
1) Contextualization: What was the unemployment rate for African Americans during the Great
Depression? How did it compare to the rate of unemployment for white Americans?
2) Contextualization: What were the Jim Crow laws? When did the Jim Crow era begin?
3) Contextualization: Based on your knowledge of US History and the video clip, how do you think
the existence of Jim Crow laws impacted the relief that New Deal programs provided for African
Americans living through the Great Depression?