The Great Depression

White Careers

100

True or False: Whites were paid more during the Depression than blacks for doing the same job.

True

200

Fill in this Atlanta slogan: "No jobs for ___ until every ___ man has a job"

blacks white

300

Name a white organization that forced blacks out of jobs to allow whites to work.

Possible answers: Ku Klux Klan, Blue Shirts, Federation of Women's Club, The White Knights

White Education

100

Did whites and blacks go to desegregated schools or separate schools?

Separate schools

200

True or False: Whites were not taught college curriculum such as history, literature, and math

False

300

Who started funding Black Industrial Education high schools?

White philanthropists

Mixed

100

Did the Great Depression affect the South similarly to the rest of the USA? How?

Yes: there were bank failures, small businesses collapsed, and there were fewer loans.

200

What major event helped end the Depression?

World War 2

300

Name one major organization that President Roosevelt created in order to reduce unemployment in America.

Possible answers: Works Progress Administration (WPA), Civilian Conservation Corpse (CCC), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), National Recovery Administration (NRA)

Black Careers

100

About what percent of blacks were out of work?

50%

200

Name one effect of the "Dirty 30's"?

Possible answers: Dust, insects, bad weather- Made crops suffer.

300

What were the major effects of blacks migrating from the South to the North?

Less jobs were available in the North because so many people moved there.

Black Education

100

True or false: blacks got the same supplies in school as whites.

False

200

What class(es) weren't taught in black high schools during the Great Depression?

Literature, math and history

300

What careers did black high schools prepare their students for?

Industrial work (factories, manual labor...)