Negroes and the Great Depression - The Problem of Economic Recovery

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Examines the ways in which the recovery program of the New Deal affected the economic conditions of Negroes. ISBN 8371-5961-X

Author(s): Raymond Wolters
Series: Contributions in American History, No 6
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Corporation
Year: 1970

Language: English
Pages: 420
City: Westport
Tags: Anthropology, Economics, American History

PART ONE: AGRICULTURAL RECOVERY AND THE NEGRO FARMER
1 The Need for Agricultural Adjustment 3
2 Special Problems 21
3 NAACP Protest and the AAA 39
4 Agricultural Programs After 1935 56
Summary 78
PART TWO: INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY AND THE BLACK WORKER
5 The Need for Industrial Recovery 83
6 Wages and Hours 98
7 Section 7a and the Black Worker 169
8 Title II of the NRA 193
Summary 213
PART THREE: THE NAACP IN A TIME OF ECONOMIC CRISIS
9 The Amenia Conference, 1933 219
10 W. E. R. Du Bois and the Depression: Self-Help and Economic Recovery 230
11 Rift in the NAACP 266
12 The Harris Report 302
13 The National Negro Congress 353
Summary 383
Bibliographical Note on Manuscript Collections 385
Index 387