a brief history
Published on Jan 09, 2016
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a brief history
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the stock market crashed in 1929, beginning the Great Depression
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Conditions grew worse. Many people did not have jobs and lived near starvation
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Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in 1933
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FDR set up a variety of programs to provide employment and help relieve the suffering.
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in the southern states, things were particularly tough because this area had not yet recovered from the Civil War.
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Many people of the South considered African-Americans inferior and demanded segregation in the schools and on public transportation.
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During the 1950’ -1960’s African Americans held a civil rights movement, demanding to be treated equally and not segregated based on the color of their skin.
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