Negative

• Resettlement Administration -

  • only 1.7% farmers helped
• 1939 -2 million signed a petition for federal aid to move to Africa
• Only 5% of Black WPA workers in North had supervisory roles
• Officials in Georgia excused black relief payments -

  • Claimed black Americans could survive on less, due to lower living standards.
• Social Security provisions did not apply to farm workers or domestic workers (servants). (mainly black Americans)
• Black farm workers sacked in 1000's during agricultural reforms
• Black Americans excluded from pension and unemployment provisions - Social Security Act
• Agencies Roosevelt sset up to provide relief and work, put people into work projects by 'merit' alone. Black people forced of jobs to make way for white people.
• Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) -

  • Southern white landowners paid to remove land from production and black tenants and sharecroppers evicted
  • 1933-40 = 200,000 black sharecroppers evicted
  • Southern White landowners deprived black of federal Government compensation (black inequality)