African Americans & New Deal


	African Americans & New Deal
	AdvantagesGetting Started Grants of $45 million to build schools, hospitals & homes ERA benefitted between 1933-35, over 250,000 African Americans given literacy help through federal aid projects Roosevelt inherently opposed to lynching Elanor Roosevelt supported African American organisations and openly disapproved of segregation CCC 'discrimination is prohibited on account of race, colour or creed'	Disadvantages Many poor sharecroppers didn't benefit from AAA, no money paid directly to tenants Suffered disproportionately from unemployment Restrictions by NRA to establish fair rates of pay evaded by many in South Strengthening of Unions through Wagner Act did not benefit many African Americans as they were not members due to exclusion Social Security Act did not apply to the mass of sharecroppers Segregation prominent until 1954 CCC labour camps segregated, African Americans received poorest rates of employment Roosevelt did not increase African American voting rights
	Evaluation Some improvement to their position, however many organisations ignored laws over african americans and so the actual development was severely limited

Grants of $45 million to build schools, hospitals & homes
ERA benefitted between 1933-35, over 250,000 African Americans given literacy help through federal aid projects
Roosevelt inherently opposed to lynching
Elanor Roosevelt supported African American organisations and openly disapproved of segregation
CCC 'discrimination is prohibited on account of race, colour or creed'

Many poor sharecroppers didn't benefit from AAA, no money paid directly to tenants
Suffered disproportionately from unemployment
Restrictions by NRA to establish fair rates of pay evaded by many in South
Strengthening of Unions through Wagner Act did not benefit many African Americans as they were not members due to exclusion
Social Security Act did not apply to the mass of sharecroppers
Segregation prominent until 1954
CCC labour camps segregated, African Americans received poorest rates of employment
Roosevelt did not increase African American voting rights

Some improvement to their position, however many organisations ignored laws over african americans and so the actual development was severely limited

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