During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute hi ...

the crash of 1929 meant he was living through the years of the Great Depression. "At that time, Mussolini's Italy invaded Ethiopia, which was an outrage for the African-American collective ...

QUESTION: How did African Americans fare during the Great Depression and under the New Deal? WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON: During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that ...