Limitations

• Poor sharecroppers couldn’t not pay rents

  Little was done for 200,000 who evicted

  Federal programmes reduced crop production and paid farmers for not producing crops to maintain prices with reduced supply - mo money paid directly to poorer AA tenants
• AA suffered disproportionately from unemployment
• Attempts to improve working conditions excluded groups where AA labour was the most common - agricultural and domestic services
• National Recovery Administration NRA

  Attempted to establish fair rates of pay and better conditions , didn’t encourage similar requirements in the industrial North

  Regulations were evaded by many employers in the South
• Wagner Act

  Tended to ensure that big employers used unionised labour - acted against interests of AA, who were often casual workers and not members of unions in large numbers
• Social Security Act

  Didn’t apply to the bulk of the work done by AA
• WW2


  Remained prevalent in most institutions and in armed forces
• Civilian Conservation Corps

  To help the unemployed offered some relief to AA, but labour camps were segregated and the type of work offered wasn’t the same - AA workers received the worst and most poorly paid work
• Roosevelt didn’t increase AA voting rights