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How the New Deal Left Out African-Americans
« on: January 25, 2018, 09:15:49 am »
How the New Deal Left Out African-Americans

During the Great Depression, unemployment among African-Americans was twice that of whites – mostly due to segregation. One rare opportunity came on the Pullman sleeper trains, where most of the porters were black. (1:50)

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