Question 1: How did the Great Depression affect African American workers? What differences were there between difficulties for African Americans in the North and South? What skills did African Americans use or develop in order to survive?
Question 2: Discuss several facets of the New Deal. Explain why and how some of the programs, like the AAA and the CCC, were either explicitly or implicitly discriminatory. Talk about the origins of the Social Security Act, as well as its effect on African Americans. How did Social Security reveal that many people still thought "welfare" was something to be avoided? How did that program reveal that whites often wanted to keep poor white women and African Americans in subservient positions?