CW8 – p666 Terms #1-11

Great Depression

• An economic catastrophe that affected everyone in the US.

• Hit African-Americans particularly hard.

• Blacks in the north and south experienced lower employment rates and decline of income worse than any other race.

Black Protests

• NAACP continued to press for civil rights even though the economy was a wreck.

• Charles Houston took over the organization and won quite a bit inthe courts against segregation.

• NAACP supported Roosevelt who won the election and enacted the New Deal.

New Deal

• New Deal was the plan to bring the country out of the Depression

• The New Deal helped whites muchmore than it helped African-Americans.

• Roosevelt accepted blacks in hisadministration, first president to do so.

• AA were more included in theSecond New Deal.

Communist Party

• The Communist Party began to reach out to blacks and assist in their fight for civil rights.

• Basically trying torecruit AA to theirparty.

• Most blacks wereunlikely to becomecommunists.

Tuskegee Study

• 1930s saw the worst manifestation of racism in American science.

• Purpose was to chart the course of untreated syphilis.

• 622 men, 431 had the disease were told they were being treated butthey weren’t. It was simply a study on how bad the disease could get.

• Program lasted 40 years, wasn’t known until 1972.