How would you characterize and assess the impact of the Great Depression and the New Deal on African Americans?
How did ordinary Blacks respond to the extraordinary challenges of the era?
How did Black politicians, activists, wageworkers, authors, and artists seek to address the specific problems that the Depression and the New Deal posed for African Americans? What were the results of their efforts?
What impacts did African American culture have on American culture in this period?
In what ways do you see aspects of the ongoing American freedom struggle evolving into what some have called “the long civil rights movement”?