From a Raw Deal to a New Deal: African Americans 1929-1945

by Joe William Trotter Jr.

Book Overview

Bank closings, soup kitchens, bread lines, unemployed workers begging for work--these images defined the 1930s and '40s in America. For African Americans the era was a study in contrasts: black workers had the highest unemployment rate at a time when black leaders held important positions in Franklin Roosevelt's administration; New Deal legislation threw hundreds of thousands of black sharecroppers off the land while the same federal government provided...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195087712
• ISBN13: 9780195087710
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.8" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12