Roosevelt's Impact On African Americans

The Great Depression hit every single different racial and religious group beginning in 1929, but the African Americans were clearly hit the hardest. Discrimination made it more challenging for African Americans to provide for their families and find jobs. During this bleak time, there were few making an effort to help improve the situation for African Americans. As we know, Franklin D. Roosevelt was president during the Depression, and his wife, Mrs Roosevelt began to recognize the unfairness that Africans Americans were faced with every day. “She became a go-between between civil rights activists and the President” (Wormser, Richard). Mrs Roosevelt was the bridge between civil rights activists and the President. Civil rights activists are the people who make efforts to equalize right between the minority groups.
They were still being laid off their jobs before whites, and still struggled each day to provide for their families. It is important to recognize the hardships African Americans faced many years ago, so they do not experience the same inequality again. It is known that African Americans had a much harder time digging themselves out of the hole of the depression. The Country's overall recovery from the economic mess was delayed because of the many groups that were discriminated against. Nothing could even come close to fixing the problems. If African Americans had equal rights the recovery from the Depression may have been more successful. There would have been more stable people to build up the country. I think that if African Americans had been considered equal everyone could have joined together and built the country back into one strong world power, but instead it was broken into little groups that were unable to get along. People are still questioning today if the economy has completely