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To Ask for an Equal Chance, October 2009
Hardcover

TO ASK FOR AN EQUAL CHANCE
By: Cheryl Greenberg

African Americans in the Great Depression

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
October 2009
On Sale: September 28, 2009
192 pages
ISBN: 0742551881
EAN: 9780742551886
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

The Great Depression hit Americans hard, but none harder than African Americans and the working poor. This brief, engaging book covers the range of African Americans' experiences during the 1930s. The author explores employment issues, the New Deal's effect on African Americans, family and community changes, and how the coming of war affected the population. The book straddles the particular-with examinations of specific communities and experiences-and the general-with explorations of the broader effects of racism, discrimination, family, class, and political organizing.

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