How did white people treat black people in the 1930s?

Answer 1

During the 1930s black were already discriminated against and when the country hit the Great Depression it only got worse. White male employment was the first priority to many so blacks would have a hard time finding jobs. They often lived in the poorest districts and were paid less than white people doing the same job. Futher-more during the 1930s there was still segregation in almost everything from waterfountains to which door you could walk into. After the Great Depression few blacks could find work and only 5% of blacks have 'well paid' jobs compared to 30% of whites. Also in President Rooservelt made an anti-lynching Bill however it was attacked by the southern politicians and six weeks later it was removed.

Not all was bad for the Black Americans since in the 30s the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) Provided 200,000 jobs for black people.

However despite this things did not really improve for the black Americans till the Second World War when with the Double V campaign alot of black Americans gained more equal rights in the work place and also at the start of the war all the armed forces were segregated however by 1945 there are 600 black pilots in the air force and in 1946 the Navy is desegregated and all the forces are desegregated by 1947.

Answer 2

As a consequence of the Civil War and Reconstruction, whites in the South had developed a segregated society. African Americans were relegated to a separate "colored" class (along with most non-Caucasian citizens) and given separate public accommodations, usually of an inferior nature. While the Northern US had few of these societal barriers, de facto segregation occurred in the urban and rural populace. Among unskilled whites, competition for employment with blacks generated racial tension which occasionally caused open hostilities between the races.

Black people were forced to give up their seat on a bus and also made to step off the sidewalk for white people. They were always the last to be hired and the first to be fired for any job, making employment difficult to find and keep.

Answer 3

They were treated very, very badly. Initially, they were enslaved. They were bought and sold like farm animals, fed very little, allowed little sleep, and forced to work very hard for no pay. They were denied education, as slaves, and later as free. The slave owners feared them being able to survive on their own, and others feared them competing with them for labor. So they were made to be ignorant and then mistreated in society because they were denied educational opportunities.

Answer 4

During the 1930s in America, women were treated as if they were valueless. Women were nothing in the eyes of men, and there was no equality between men and women. Women were second-class citizens. They were expected to stay home and raise their children and nothing more.

Answer 5

The Depression did little to alter the role of women in the American workplace. According to the 1930 census almost eleven million women, or 24.3 percent of all women in the country, were gainfully employed. Three out of every ten of these working women were in domestic or personal service. Of professional women three-quarters were schoolteachers or nurses. The 1940 census did not post dramatic changes in the numbers of working women: thirteen million women, or 25.4 percent of all women over the age of fourteen, worked. The greatest numbers of women continued to work in domestic service, with clerical workers just behind. Out of every ten women workers in 1940, three were in clerical or sales work, two were in factories, two in domestic service, one was a professional-a teacher or a nurse-and one was a service worker. Women in the 1930s in fact entered the workforce at a rate twice that of men.

Answer 6

They would hang them, whip them, or even sometimes torture them for no reason.

Answer 7

life was harsh and very unfair. they faced segregation everyday and were treated poorly

Answer 8

the white people took the blacks as slaves for very small pay and they were treated like second class people

Answer 9

bad