You need to answer all these questions, please read below on the guidelines and must answer all the short essay questions
- What did the New Deal mean for African Americans? Was it a "fair deal?" Who benefited the most in the African American community? Why?
- Did African Americans make any gains as a result of their participation in World War II? Why or Why not? How were actions during the 1940s connected to the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s?
- What motivated African Americans to leave the south during the period known as the "Great Migration?" What did they leave behind and what did they find in the North?
- Discuss the impact of black cultural production on white America? What was the influence of jazz, literature etc.? How did art reveal contradictions in American society?
- Discuss the relationship between African Americans and organized labor? Did labor unions help or hurt black workers? Were unions a force for positive change?
- Why did African Americans begin to vote for the Democrats after the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt? What did this political party offer African Americans that the Republicans did not?