To Ask for an Equal Chance African Americans in the Great Depression By: Cheryl Lynn Greenberg Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Print ISBN: 9780742551886, 0742551881 eText ISBN: 9781442200517, 1442200510 Pages: 200 Format: PDF Available from $ 15.30 USD SKU 9781442200517R120 The Great Depression hit Americans hard, but none harder than African Americans and the working poor. To Ask for an Equal Chance explores black experiences during this period and the intertwined challenges posed by race and class. Last hired, first fired, black workers lost their jobs at twice the rate of whites, and faced greater obstacles in their search for economic security. Black workers, who were generally urban newcomers, impoverished and lacking industrial skills, were already at a disadvantage. These difficulties were intensified by an overt, and in the South legally entrenched, system of racial segregation and discrimi Download ebook: https://ouo.io/fDxObF
